Just a 'pie in the sky' idea
but what about virtually eliminating eddy currents by using laminate shaped containers (coil wrapped) instead of laminate?
As I understand things:
Ferro fluids contain spherical colloids of metal.
One does get Feroo Fluid that consists of electrically insulated spheres/colloids.
The amount of colloid to fluid/oil ratio is whatever you want it to be. and could be more colloid than oil. (dense)
Magnified; one can imagine such a fluid looking like a bunch of almost touching, insulated, free to spin, ball bearings as a magnetic core.
So if one packed a container with such fluid, dense in spheres/colloids; one should virtually eliminate eddy current losses..??
One might even be able to use magnetically hard colloids and have them physically 'spin', rather than magnetize in one direction and then the other (pole flip) all the time...???
A quick search brings up Ferro Fluid turned turbines, but nothing like the above as yet.
(Assuming this is a good idea; do I have to declare it 'Open Source' etc here!? )
but what about virtually eliminating eddy currents by using laminate shaped containers (coil wrapped) instead of laminate?
As I understand things:
Ferro fluids contain spherical colloids of metal.
One does get Feroo Fluid that consists of electrically insulated spheres/colloids.
The amount of colloid to fluid/oil ratio is whatever you want it to be. and could be more colloid than oil. (dense)
Magnified; one can imagine such a fluid looking like a bunch of almost touching, insulated, free to spin, ball bearings as a magnetic core.
So if one packed a container with such fluid, dense in spheres/colloids; one should virtually eliminate eddy current losses..??
One might even be able to use magnetically hard colloids and have them physically 'spin', rather than magnetize in one direction and then the other (pole flip) all the time...???
A quick search brings up Ferro Fluid turned turbines, but nothing like the above as yet.
(Assuming this is a good idea; do I have to declare it 'Open Source' etc here!? )