On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:36 PM, mark wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > > SJS wrote: > >> I'm told that fluorescent tubes ... fluoresce ... when brought in to > the > >> vicinity of high-powered transmission lines. If you lived near enough > to > >> such a line, and could light up your garage without running wires, I > >> don't think I'd have any problem with you doing so. > I've heard of farmers doing something similar. If they had high tension power lines overhead on some of their property, they'd bury large coils of wire in the ground. Look ma, a transformer! Maxwell helping out here from the grave. So, they'd get induced power into this big loop and then free electricity. Problem is, the amount of power flowing in the high tension lines is a constant. You take some of the energy out, it's going to drop. You bet the electric companies would notice the missing power. In the Navy, we used to hang florescent tubes from the fence posts near some of the high powered HF transmitting sites. Watch them glow, but the MPs didn't like it... -- Mark Schoonover, CMDBA http://www.linkedin.com/in/markschoonover http://marksitblog.blogspot.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
