William Beaty <bi...@eskimo.com> wrote:
> This motor is certainly not a perpetual motion machine, but it is an >> electrostatic motor. . . . > > > > Yeah, Jefimenko couldn't get them to turn using balloon-wire antennas, > until they tried it from the top of a parking garage. Nearby buildings > had been acting as a shield, and their balloon-wire wasn't high enough. > Indoors, the shielding effect is 100%. > That sounds like harvesting energy from radio and TV towers. Hasn't that been demonstrated? People living next door to towers see effects such as radiators acting as radios. You can also harvest energy from high voltage overhead power lines. I recall reading about the power companies suing people for doing this. That seems unfair to me. The energy is all going to waste anyway. Experts say that RF has no effect on health. I hope that is true, but I wonder about long term exposure, especially for someone living next door to a radio tower. Wifi units produce many orders of magnitude less power than radio or cell phones, yet I still have some concerns about them. The one in my house used to be installed right where my wife works for several hours a day. I moved it, partly for that reason. Also to improve reception in the rest of the house. (It still doesn't work well in some rooms. I wish I could fix that.) - Jed
