Let's try de-perming them first, with a big solenoid coil, big enough to walk
them through. 800 A/M for a start?
Herd behavior might be helpful; might act like a mutual coupling to increase
the collective Q.
Ed Price
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NARTE Certified EMC Engineer
Electromagnetic Compatibility Lab
Cubic Defense Applications
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Doug Nix
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 5:10 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Interesting Article
Cortland,
Interesting grant proposal. How would you plan to control for herd
behaviour,
since that may have direct influence on the cows desire to align themselves
relative to each other...
Doug
[email protected]
Find me near 43°24'24.96"N 80°24'25.95"W.
On Mar 17, 2009, at 19:22, Cortland Richmond wrote:
It is an interesting item. The news reports I've heard are
that the
observations show cattle aligned N/S except under HV power lines (I have not
yet read the article.) The conclusion that cattle align themselves with the
Earth's magnetic field at all is based on one assumption, that the alignment
is due to magnetic fields and not because (say) they're warming themselves in
the sunlight or some terrain influence. That power lines cause them to lose
the ability to sense magnetic fields is based on TWO assujmtions, and needs a
closer look.
If, as in some animals known to sense North, cattle do sense
the magnetic
field by way of magnetite particles, and if those are small enough, it is
POSSIBLE they might no longer sense North due to the AC fields under power
lines moving those particles around.
I should apply for a grant to install inductors on a herd of
cattle, and
DC/AC converters, so that I might selectively induce AC magnetic fields on
selected bovines and see if they fail to align with the herd.
Heh!
Cortland Richmond
KA5S.
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