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Re: gEDA-user: Electromagnetic bike
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Rob Butts <r.butts2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was just looking at that (the eddy current brake). Yes, what is
> needed to build a bike with a braking action is a magnetic force
> similar to pushing two magnets of the same pole towards each other. A
> bike where the resistance is not friction but a magnetic field
> resistance.
Are you after "Regenerative Breaking"?
The kinetic energy is put back into the battery or better yet capacitor bank.
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