> Hi there Charles and all,
Well, hi right back at 'ya!
> was just curious below where you mentioned that receiving the
> broadcasted power
> from the lines is illegal, is this for reel? I would have thought
As far as I know, it is illegal. There was a LONG thread about this on
the USA-TESLA list a long time ago, and I believe someone was busted
for it. It was viewed as theft from the power company, and was treated
as such.
Someone else used a telephone line as a source of power, during a
blackout at a college campus. Lit a penlight bulb...that kind of thing.
Again, it was frowned upon.
HOWEVER
It's been a LONG time since that thread, though, so my memory could
be less than perfect. I need to do a web search on the messages from
appx 5 years ago, and see if my memory is actually correct.
On a different note, it was a viable explanation for the "excess power"
claimed by so many of the tuned coil "free-energy" machines. They
were equivalent to crystal radios tuned to 60Hz.
Now, if we could tap into this "source" of power, we could have an almost
unlimited "battery life" on a power frugal wearable. The power
extractable
was not huge (without a very large antenna placed close to the lines) but
it was almost literally everywhere. I think a few watts were extracted
by
some devices, in a scientifically controlled and reproducible way, which
could be made easily portable. (but up to 25KW is claimed by some "free
energy" devices...)
How low can power requirements get, with today's tech? I saw a figure
of .8 watts earlier, but I think that was just for the motherboard.
> Allternatively if they
> wanted to go to court shorly mentioning entrapy somewhere in your
> defense would get you of the hook?
Almost surely this would be the case. But, is being batteryless
worth all the time, trouble, and expense of a court trial? It's not,
for me. :-( (It'd sure be a cool experiment, though, wouldn't it?)
-- Chuck Knight
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