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From: Josh Luthman Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 4:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] dumb curiosity question Close to an AM tower you'll definitely have a good bit. If there's enough juice to catch grass on fire when you short it out, there's enough amps to charge a phone. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote: 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? -- All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer. -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925
