Ok. I had hoped this thread would die, however since it seems to be going strong here is a short description of the problem involved here. > I have also seen references about it being illegal. Specifically, they were > poor farmers who laid large flat circular coils underneath the large high Think ring integrals in a conservative vector field. You are not going to gather hardly any power from coils under the power lines unless the diameter of the coil. What power you will gather is from the changing flux density across the diameter of the coils. This is going to be negligible. The last time I did the math, back when I was taking my Power course as an undergraduate, under the best possible circumstances it is going to take about 3.5 miles of wire/cable strung parallel to the power companies lines to power a 60W light bulb with any luminescence. This is not under residential power lines, I am talking the largest lines that they power companies run for inter-utility district exchange/sale of power. What you hear about farmers taping the lines for power is basicly an old wife's tale sprung up from the fact that the barbed wire fences that run parallel to, and near, electric power lines do tend to rust and weather much faster then other sections of the same fence. Basicly those lines have a slight current flow through them which acts to accelerate the ionization and breakdown of the metals. This current is also the spawn of the rumor that peeing on those sections of fence will act just like peeing on an electric fence. -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
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