CannibalSmith comments on Open Thread: October 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CannibalSmith 02 October 2009 02:43:30PM 0 points [-]

Wind each layer sparsely so that wires don't touch and pack insulator (dried leaves) between the layers. Makes for a woefully inefficient spool, but still.

Gotta try this out with scrap metal.

Comment author: billswift 02 October 2009 03:23:00PM 0 points [-]

That would probably work, the only problem with it is that you would have to know in advance what you were doing, this isn't something that would be tried by an experimenter trying to figure things out for example.