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electrodynamic tether
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Electrodynamic tether
Electrodynamic tethers (EDTs)
are long conducting
wires
, such as one deployed from a
tether satellite
, which can operate on
electromagnetic
principles as
generators
, by converting their
kinetic energy
to
electrical energy
, or as
motors
, converting electrical energy to kinetic energy.
Electric potential
is generated across a conductive tether by its motion through a planet's magnetic field.
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