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Re:Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant by dyauspitr on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @01:49PM (#42783811)
Can an electromagnetic move organic material?
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Re:Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant by jhgorrell on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @01:57PM (#42783912)
Extremely powerful fields can levitate a frog - so yes.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/04/how-did-you-g...

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Re:Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant by kragen on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @01:52PM (#42783838)
Probably not in a useful way; the induced currents would produce far too much heat.
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Re:Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant by rUsHeYaFuBu on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @01:52PM (#42783836)
If it's strong enough, probably. I mean, MRIs kind of work that way.
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Re:Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant by SigmundA on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @03:06PM (#42784625)
Yes the 45 Tesla magnet in Tallahassee can levitate small non ferrous things like a strawberry in a little tube and draws 56 megawatts about 7% of the cities power grid.
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