Return to the archive index

Re: Power source

Heh.  Seriously, the reason that the power company doesn't like people
to bury coils near power lines is because it actually produces a drain
on the power company's lines.  The energy around power lines isn't
radiated away in the sense of a light bulb.  

See, when you have an oscillating current, as one does in all AC
circuits (like power lines), you also have an oscillating magnetic field
generated around that current.  As the current goes through its cycle,
energy is alternately stored in and recovered from the magnetic field,
as the power travels along towards paying customers.  

If, however, you put a coil nearby, some of the energy in the magnetic
field gets "recovered" into *your* wires, which of course implies that
less energy is recovered by the power line, producing a net drain on the
power company's supply.  (Note that the coil operates in the same way
that a transformer does).

So you see, power companies are quite right to get annoyed when somebody
buries a few coils near their high-tension lines  --it costs them money.

Shane Norris wrote:
> 
> 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
>         (() || ());
> 
> 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
> > > ___________________________________________________________________
> > > Get the Internet just the way you want it.
> > > Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month!
> > > Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of
> > > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to 
> > > Wear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
> >
> > --
> > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of
> > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to 
> > Wear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
> 
> --
> Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of
> "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to 
> Wear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org

-- 
Michael Hohensee

"Remember, it takes 42 muscles to frown and only 4 to pull the trigger
of a decent sniper rifle."

--
Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of
"subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to 
Wear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org

From Wear-Hard Mailing list Archive (WH)
Maintained by R. Paul McCarty

Archive created with babymail