Free electricity?

Generators don't use up their magnetic field.

But the Earth's magnetic field appears to flip from time to time, over a period that's uncertain. If Earth's population started depending on the field for generating power, it could find itself up a creek without a paddle.

Sylvia.

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Agree. If this worked, it would be a well known method for radio jamming.

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You might have a shot with stringing a wire under high voltage power lines and tapping off it.

Holding a 40w tube in the air under 330kv lines with the other end grounded will light it dimly, so you might be able to light a fluro tube if you go high/long enough and ground the other end.

Likely very illegal and very noticeable unless you use very thin wire, and probably dangerous.

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cth

What you are actually picking up there is the electric charge across the air. There is a large potential difference between the ground, and the end of the tube 3m off the ground. Because the air has a very high resistance, the current flow is very small, but sufficient to light the lamp.

I've heard of cases where farmers have run coils of wire under power lines across their property and got usable amounts of power.

They've been found out though, because the power co's can detect if there is a drain on the system.

As for the video in the OP, I believe that he genuinely is charging his phone - ie the video isn't faked. But it doesn't work for the reason he thinks it does, and the power isn't free. He is using his house wiring as the primary of a transformer and the antenna as the secondary. Consequently his load (although miniscule) would be registered by the power meter on his house. I can guarantee his mobile phone charger would stop working if he walked outside, or turned most of his other appliances off.

Because seppo-land house wiring is lower voltage, and hence higher current than here in Aus, the EM field is stronger. Consequently it will develop more power than it would in the same scenario in Aus.

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Doug Jewell

If I had such a technology, I wouldnt be putting the details on how to duplicate it in a book either. Id be actually making the machines and selling them for $100 million each. Why hasnt someone who has boughjt the book, put the details on the Net.

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Mauried

they have seen too many incompetent, mismanaging, money-wasting Labor governments"

There are plenty of people still living the remember the Whitlam era, the Cain/Kirner years, etc., You are possibly one of the persons paying their pensions. :)

In the case of the coalition, would that be an irrational hatred, or one born of a lack of intelligence and common sense?

with the Green/ALP carbon tax"

peoples money"

Why would I not be able to appreciate the significance or meaning of what I have chosen to write?

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ause they have seen too many incompetent, mismanaging, money-wasting Labor = governments"

That's right - and if you look around modern Australia, there is NO shortage of people with lack of intelligence and/or common sense,

there are also large numbers on handouts, who vote for them in order to keep the handouts coming and increasing.

oof with the Green/ALP carbon tax"

er peoples money"

The last couple just hit me so hard with how right and obvious they were from many angles, and summarised into a single sentence.

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with the Green/ALP carbon tax"

peoples money"

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kreed

With the amount of other "secret" and sensitive stuff leaked on the net already, if these things had any validity they would already be out there.

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kreed

Can you give me a URL for that?

Sylvia.

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Sylvia Else

I'm sure that if there are such things out there that were real someone would have revealed them by now.

There are plenty of people out there who would release info on "free" electricity, alternative car fuels etc, simply to destroy oil companies, state government electricity providers etc etc.

Environmental groups might, but in modern reality IMHO they are simply about gaining and exercising power and control of people and resources and no longer have much to do with real environmental issues, so you wouldn't expect them to necessarily help promote these things if they existed. release such info.

Heard last night that their latest rubbish philosophy is that mobile phone and wi-fi RF is deforming and killing trees. :(

Probably another push for NBN and optic fibre as optic fibre radiates no magnetic field or RF. :) (joke)

Various things I have heard of over the years include corporations burying patents on things such as:

-Tyre compounds that are so durable that they last virtually the life of the vehicle

-Engine technologies that give approximately 6x the mileage of current technology

(Note, current technology at the time this was stated might have been a lot less efficient than now).

I am not an automotive engineer or chemist specialising in rubber compounds so I cannot say if these are feasible or not, but they do at least sound plausible to some extent. I can assure you that I have found from personal experience that tyres now last a lot longer than they did during the 1980's/90s so improvement has happened.

As for car engines, for example - a huge % of energy is lost from an internal combustion engine as heat, if there were some way to either reduce this loss or collect this heat energy and turn it into extra horsepower, then engine efficiency would go up by an enormous amount. (Of course in cold climates where this "waste" heat is used to heat the car interior, then its not such a practical idea)

There are others, but I'm just giving 2 examples here that may be feasible.

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On the other hand - claims that involve "pulling KW's of power out of thin air with coils and capacitors" can only be regarded as total rubbish,

Or claiming that solar panels can be made that collect more energy per sq metre than the sun can emit.

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Finally - if these "patents" do actually exist for these "wonder" technologies, there is another problem with releasing them to the public

The ideas or technologies involved in them may be so complex or require so much R&D $$, exotic materials or skilled manufacture that they would be way outside the ability of the average home constructor

- or even outside the experience or skill level of a good engineering shop.

If for example, something along the lines of nuclear or highly toxic materials were needed for any reason - this would probably only be available to specialist contractors under very tight security agreements and great expense.

If the costs involved in commercially developing these things ran into the $100s of millions or billions, then a large company, lots of plant and equipment and skilled specialists of many fields would be needed, as well as a large number of very rich and very trusting investors, and even assuming they do pull it off, and have a viable product, that is affordable to the general public, and get public acceptance and trust, they can be crushed for patent infringement. The company would probably eventually be bought up by the patent owners, shut down and the technology would "disappear". Someone may be irate enough to leak all the design and research documents to Wikileaks or similar, but "settlement agreements for the hypothetical patent infringement" may prevent anyone from thinking of doing this, and there probably arent that many people who would have access to such material therefore it would be easy to narrow down and sue those involved.

If the patent owner does not want this technology developed (IE an oil company not wanting super efficent engine technology on the market for example) then they aren't going to grant a license to manufacture, or are going to put such costs and conditions on it that it would never get off the ground. The company would then fold.

  • Whatever happened to Geocities?

Yahoo bought it out and eventually absorbed it into Yahoo They shut it down completely last year.

Was a shame, I used to post photos on there and haven't got around to finding a substitute.

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Sylvia Else

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Alan

Very interesting, thanks for that.

Locally for some years they have advertised a device on TV called the Hi-Clone that promises substantial increases in fuel efficiency, from what I have seen it looks like it makes the incoming air "swirl around" like a cyclone.

Don't know if it works or anyone who has tried it.

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kreed

answer is yes. Crystal radios have always worked

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for the receiver to receive.

electricity bill, the answer is no. The amount of

reason no one uses a crytal radio for their listening

use, because of the limited capacity of an antenna to

Build a kite, connect a few hundred meters of wire and fly it in a thunderstorm.

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