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Re: Power source

So does this mean that legally your required to pay the power company's
for any tumors you aquier as a direct result or are these free?
(apologies for the sarcasm, ill shut up now)
	Regards
		Shane Norris
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Robert Wohleb wrote:
> 
> I  have also seen references about it being illegal. Specifically, they were
> poor farmers who laid large flat circular coils underneath the large high
> voltage lines. Suposedly they produced a fair amount of power if my memory is
> correct. However this was also a really large antenna under the large high
> voltage lines.
> 
> I don't see why the power companies don't license small devices using this
> concept. The power used is so minimal that they would make enough money off
> of the liscensing as long as the devices stayed small.
> 
> Charles J Knight wrote:
> 
> > > 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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