In our original article we examined electric power generation from Earth’s rotation through its own nonrotating axisymmetric magnetic field. In a Comment Jeener claims to prove that no such effect is possible. We show that this conclusion results from his failure to recognize a distinction between the corotation with Earth of the non-axially symmetric components of Earth’s magnetic field, and the non-rotation with Earth of the axially symmetric components. We use Earth’s actual geomagnetic field to demonstrate the important consequences of this distinction. Because the distinction has strong empirical support, Jeener’s argument is incorrect.

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在我们的原始文章中，我们研究了地球自转通过其自身的非旋转轴对称磁场产生的电能。Jeener在一条评论中声称证明不可能有这种效果。我们证明了这一结论是由于他未能认识到地球磁场的非轴向对称分量与地球的同向旋转与轴向对称分量与地球的非旋转之间的区别所致。我们使用地球的实际地磁场来证明这种区别的重要后果。由于该区分具有强大的经验支持，因此Jeener的论点是错误的。