While shopping for new tires today, I came across this line: Interestingly, the steel wires in radial tires become magnetic with use, and as they rotate a significant alternating magnetic field is created. It is quite measurable with an EMF meter close to the wheel well when the car is moving and is a spectrum of harmonic strengths from 10 to several hundred Hertz. In this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial_tireIt was news to me. So, I thought that I would share it with my friends here. Maybe we find a new use for those used radial tires; RTPU? Those radial wires can not be individual hoops, or a toroid coil, because of the large gap spanning the wheel-rims. So, I am thinking that each individual wire is rather C-shaped. I wonder how well each wire is isolated/insulated from it's neighbor? I have no idea how the wires are wrapped when the tires are manufactured; maybe it is one single wire that a machine u-turns back and forth at the rim-edges and not a simple toroid cut-off at the rim-edges as I first imagined. Anyone know for sure? EDIT: I wonder why the wires become magnetic over time. I know that a moving car can build-up a charge, different from the earth below. So, each wire passes over the top of the tire near the influence of the charged car body. Then it meets the road near the influence of the earth. Always the same charge polarities, always the same (fast) rotational (forward) direction, (unless you are Ricky Bobby.) I am sure that you learned folks will have some better ideas. Have fun! EDIT: Hey, GK, do you think Ed used a steel belted radial tire around his generator? Maybe the auto-axle at the front door was a clue.  EDIT: Maybe this radial tire is a metaphor for tapping energy: As the Earth spins and drags the aether with it, there is a zone above Earth's surface where the aether is transitioning back to a local, 'normal,' unmoving aether. A tire uses rubber to cog with the Earth and the engine provides motive force. We need to somehow cog our E.M. tires to the transitioning aether gradient and use this existing motive force to drive our generators, ...and eventually slow the earth to a stop and everybody dies.  EDIT: Changed subject name from "Alternating Magnetic Field of Radial Tires" to "The Einstein-de Haas Effect."
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