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Palm-sized magnet reaches 42 tesla, approaching the strength of the world’s most powerful magnets while using a few thousand times less power and over 1,000 times smaller coil volumes (interestingengineering.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Innerworld@lemmy.world to c/engineering@sh.itjust.works

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[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Change the moon's orbit, or even the Earth's orbit around the sun? Sure would be an interesting method of dealing with global warming...

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

With magnets? How would that work?

When it comes to global warming, I could see using them to bolster the natural field of the earth to stop more cosmic particles getting to the planet, but how could you change the orbit with magnetism?

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 1 points 1 week ago

I dunno. I'm just an overly tired & poorly educated idiot who's watched too much sci-fi. I really should be asleep, but my natural inclination has always been to fight it until I inevitably lose (sometimes the battles are incredibly intense and drawn out). I know one day it'll be different, tho - one day I won't wake up and be forced to admit defeat.