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Using The Wind And Magnets To Make Heat
(hackaday.com)
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Does this have any benefit over just using friction to convert the rotation into heat? I suppose it would suffer less wear, but it also seems way more expensive.
If he turned it into a generator and powered a heat pump he could get 2-3x the heat energy than he generates.
If you read comments to the original article, it is far from new idea and some farmers have used for a long time.