That's been done on mythbusters..... pretty much "no". There's
measurable energy there, but typically you're getting microvolts.
If you're really close to a high power transmitter, then you might get a
little something out of the air.
On 1/8/2015 4:47 PM, That One Guy wrote:
With the amount of RF always traveling through the air, in an average
urban environment if a guy has some magic antenna to stick up and
capture everything flowing through tha point in space, could you steal
that energy and charge a cellphone?
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