[Texaggie79]

When I was a kid, I used to imagine a giant contraption that would make energy from orbiting objects. Just put a huge copper coil around the atmosphere and start orbiting magnets! LOL

[r9etb]

When I was a kid, I used to imagine a giant contraption that would make energy from orbiting objects. Just put a huge copper coil around the atmosphere and start orbiting magnets!

Been done: before the line snapped, the Shuttle tethered satellite experiment was generating a couple of amps of electricity at high voltage. Something about moving a conductor around in a magnetic field.....