So what, I need x100. 500lb of 38?
Three orders of magnitude. Not 30 kilometers of wire, 30,000 kilometers of wire. Not going to happen while I'm still alive.
I think we need to look at multiple pulses per half revolution. The trick to doing this properly is figuring out whether we need a closed end or open end at the point of reflection. I'd have to go back and look at the John Shive wave propagation video again--electrically and mechanically things are flipped.
If we do 1000 pulses per half revolution, then we're back in the ballpark again. Otherwise it would appear Dr. Hastings is up in the night. Propagation is just way too fast to overcome with lengths of wire.
And we still need to figure out if removing the negative inductance is necessary. I tend to think so, especially when using higher voltages. That big blob of wire becomes nothing more than one of Tesla's top loads which I really don't think we want. It's a catch-22. You want a relatively small air core where the magnetism concentrates, but to do that you put a lot of turns of wire in close proximity to each other; that becomes more of capacitor than it does an inductor. The only saving grace is the rotor begins to act like a self-unsaturating (since it rotates) core.
This whole exercise digs at the heart of what exactly is inductance. Wires lying next to each other with their gryoscopic particles scrubbing or binding against each other. This must be the whole reason the length of wire rejects any change in current. Changing the current creates friction at the gyroscopic particle level. Friction is the compression of these particles which we see as resistance. It's all interwoven and difficult to fully comprehend everything happening at once.
