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    No, wind is spinning magnets. Everything except photovoltaics and fuel cells is spinning magnets. (Everything with boiling water is also spinning magnets)

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    You could always spin some wire and let the magnets stay still if you wanna be different.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    There's peltier devices, too, which use heat traveling via different metals and maybe some sort of sorcery to generate a voltage.

    Also teslacoils use a different mechanism (friction I believe), though that's a static voltage.

    In theory, you could translate a magnet through a coil instead of just rotating it to produce a current. Lol spinning a ring magnet through a rounded coil could be a different way of using spinning magnets (assuming it isn't already done).

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