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Re:Why are submarines demagnetized? by vanderhosen on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @12:10PM (#10981248)
At my previous job, I worked on software and algorithms for degaussing systems, it's an interesting field. A fun fact, more modern systems are moving away from copper wire for deperming and towards high temperature super conductors. It's quite expensive and difficult to wrap modern ships with tons of copper wire, so the plan is the ceramic wire will alleviate that. I left the company, so I'm not sure where that tech left off.
Re:Why are submarines demagnetized? by econophys on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @12:25PM (#10981368)
I spent a summer working at an accelerator physics lab, where a constant problem was degaussing large beam steering magnets. We always used a DC current to drive the magnet through smaller Hysteresis loops, until the magnetization is roughly zero. Is there a better way?