{"id":209618,"date":"2025-03-24T10:10:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T15:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/physicists-think-theyve-found-a-way-to-harvest-energy-from-earths-rotation-and-it-might-be-just-crazy-enough-to-work"},"modified":"2025-03-24T10:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T15:10:22","slug":"physicists-think-theyve-found-a-way-to-harvest-energy-from-earths-rotation-and-it-might-be-just-crazy-enough-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/physicists-think-theyve-found-a-way-to-harvest-energy-from-earths-rotation-and-it-might-be-just-crazy-enough-to-work","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Think They\u2019ve Found a Way to Harvest Energy from Earth\u2019s Rotation \u2014 And It Might Be Just Crazy Enough to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-think-theyve-found-a-way-to-harvest-energy-from-earths-rotation-and-it-might-be-just-crazy-enough-to-work.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chyba and his team tilted the cylinder precisely at 57 degrees, orienting it perpendicular to both Earth\u2019s magnetic field and its rotational motion. Electrodes attached at each end measured an unmistakable \u2014 but minuscule \u2014 direct current voltage of about 18 microvolts. Rotate the cylinder 90 degrees, and the voltage vanished. Reverse the cylinder, and the voltage flipped. Control tests with solid cylinders produced no voltage at all. The device was carefully shielded from external interference, such as temperature fluctuations and background electromagnetic noise, to ensure the results were accurate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has a whiff of a perpetual motion machine,\u201d Chyba told <em>Physics Magazine<\/em>, acknowledging the skepticism his results would inevitably invite. But the physics, he insisted, was sound. The electricity, though tiny, genuinely appeared to flow from Earth\u2019s spin.<\/p>\n<p>The current generated by the device is proportional to its size and the strength of Earth\u2019s magnetic field, which is relatively weak. To produce meaningful amounts of power, the device would need to be much larger or made of materials with even more favorable properties. The researchers speculate that future versions could be miniaturized and connected in series to amplify the voltage, or deployed in space where Earth\u2019s magnetic field is stronger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chyba and his team tilted the cylinder precisely at 57 degrees, orienting it perpendicular to both Earth\u2019s magnetic field and its rotational motion. Electrodes attached at each end measured an unmistakable \u2014 but minuscule \u2014 direct current voltage of about 18 microvolts. Rotate the cylinder 90 degrees, and the voltage vanished. Reverse the cylinder, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}