EARLY in 1963 a programme was begun with the view of establishing whether or not solid brushes could be used instead of liquid metal jets to collect the required current (1.6 million amp) from the ...
THE Canberra homopolar generator, which is in use in the Engineering Physics Department of the Australian National University, is a large storage machine in which the 580 MJ of kinetic energy of ...
Ello!<BR><BR>So, a homopolar generator is really simple, at least in concept. Get a conductive disk spinning inside a magnetic field and the axel & edge acrue a voltage differential.<BR><BR>My ...