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The 'Transfer' of Static Magnetic Field Energy The earth's magnetic field is being generated by a flow of material that somehow produces or mimicks an electrical current. It is static in as much as it remains essentially in the same polarity all the time, with negligible variations for the purpose of this article. It can then be assumed that there is a dynamo of some description in the earth that is generating a N-S magnetic polarity around and through the earth. This field is absolutely enormous compared to our small man-made magnets. Some estimates suggest a equivalent direct current of 10 000 000 000 amperes is generating the earth's magnetic field. This is changing very little and creates a static magnetic field. If a dynamo is to start up slowly, driving a current thru a coil to generate a magnetic field, it will require an amount of work to produce an amount of magnetic flux that will depend on the material thru which the field will be created. Thus for instance, if it is to generate a magnetic field only in a vacuum, it will require the smallest amount of energy. If, however, it is creating a magnetic field that goes thru solid iron in all the dimensions, it will create a much larger flux and flux density and take a lot more energy (and more time) to do it.

Now consider a large coil of wire, with current flow, at any point in said magnetic field that is oriented as to opposes the earths magnetic field. That portion of space (occupied by the magnetic field of the coil) is unavailable as a flux path for the earth's magnetic field. If the same dynamo now starts up again, it will create marginally less flux in total. Now consider starting the current in the coil only after the dynamo has created its magnetic field. An amount of energy will be returned to the dynamo system. This will reduce the 'load' on the dynamo by a small amount. If a constant amount of power goes into the dynamo system, as is the assumption for this article, the dynamo will