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dyauspitr
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Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant (1996)
Can an electromagnetic move organic material?
jhgorrell
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Extremely powerful fields can levitate a frog - so yes.
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kragen
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Probably not in a useful way; the induced currents would produce far too much heat.
rUsHeYaFuBu
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If it's strong enough, probably. I mean, MRIs kind of work that way.
SigmundA
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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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