Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-34954086-20120922085545/@comment-34954086-20121007121538

Zergrinch wrote: I'm still trying to wrap my head around your Red Volcano answer - I'm not quite sure you actually provided a direct answer :P

One thing I kept thinking is heat can kill magnets. As you know (and will be able to explain far better than me), a magnet works by aligning the molecules of the magnetic material in such a way that it generates a magnetic field. Heating up that material will transfer energy to the molecules, and cause them to vibrate excessively. Ultimately it be too chaotic to maintain the lattice needed for magnetism.

thought i responded to this but edit mustn't have went through. It's a full answer, though it only became that way as i wrote it. Convection Schmonvection (tvtropes:YJ) the heat doesnt effect nanite material any more then it does Red Volcano. besides that there's threeexplanations: the nanites being a single molecule lattice, it wouldnt maintain non-interference cause it always can only point one way. two molecular reconstruction to adjust itself. three, converting heat energy to power electromagnets or the EM emitters that are being used to heat the ground. Btw, it's amazing, you have a better understanding of magnets then most engineers :S