terra wrote:
I want to describe a clever generator here, and hear what you people think of
this idea.

Thanks everybody, even CSA722. The idea isn't really mine, and I wanted to see
how some other aviation-oriented people would respond to it. I'm an A&P student
and (I'm wincing while writing this) my Electrical Theory instructor dropped
this bomb on the class. I've become known as the guy who always badgers the
instructor because I disagree with him constantly, but now it's time to just let
things go. He's had enough of me.

I expected to see some scoffing here, but I got some really pleasant replies. I
could have done a lot better at persuading "Garfield" that he's wrong about some
things. I simply pushed. Naturally, he pushed back. I failed.