Hmmm, that is a very good point. Assuming those objects have a hysteresis curve like any non-permanent magnet you would have to be careful about how you put them together. Maybe there is a way they can "wind" the strands around a core to negate any potential field problems, kind of like how interleaving windings on an inductor can help with copper loss. All things considered, sounds like a fun experiment!

I would think it would be a limitation of the test size. If it's like any other electrical device, we should be able to stack a WHOLE bunch of them in series to create larger voltages. I really hope this goes somewhere, a lot of what is holding us back from implementing more renewable energy sources is the fact that we have no efficient (cost efficient mostly) way of storing the energy.

lol. seriously.

Sarcasm is obviously not your strong point

Ballmer should worry less about "Fucking Eric Schmidt" and more about making quality software. Even if they do succeed in tearing apart the competition (namely Yahoo), can they really afford Windows 7 to turn out like Vista? P.S. this is not a Vista jab, merely a question/observation.