I heard another similar story, but the guy got criminally charged.
There ARE some research into solar arrays in orbit that transmit the power via *powerful* microwaves to a ground station. Costly, but it would work with today's technology. But way costly. Also very clean. As long as the microwave beam doesn't get thrown out of alignment and pop everyone's head in a small city like so much popcorn. _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Ayala Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 5:35 PM Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: NPC: NMC: Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less - Petition When I was a kid I read in the newspaper about a guy that lived only a few hundred yards from a 50KW AM radio transmitter. He had lived there since before the transmitter was built and had protested unsuccessfully to the city about his unhealthy exposure to excessive RF power. So he built a power collector in his attic and used the power he collected run his incandescent lights and electric heaters (no fancy power converters are required to do that). His attic power collector made a huge hole in the transmitter's radiation pattern (since energy is always conserved, the power he collected wasn't getting out to intended radio receivers) so the radio station finally bought his property at a more-than-fair price. ----- Original Message ----- From: Brad Franks <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 1:39 PM Subject: Re: NPC: NMC: Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less - Petition [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry, I'm not following your fixation on radio waves, et al. Wouldn't radio waves have to come from somewhere? Don't they have to be generated by something? Wouldn't that something have to consume energy? Please point me to some links on this newly discovered FREE energy source. Radio waves are generated by advertising revenue paid to radio and television broadcast facilities across the globe; with the exception of the BBC of course, which are instead paid for by the tax pounds of the citizens of the United Kingdom. Radio waves carry enough energy to excite a crystal tuned to the specific frequency of the wave. That energy is then fed into an amplifier and passed on to your speakers. If a "super crystal" could be made that oscillates at all frequencies simultaneously it could generate enough energy to do "something." Until such a system exists it would be hard to tell how much energy it could generate. And even then, see my caveat in the next paragraph. The problem I see with this technology is that if I were driving through a canyon and lost all reception to RF my car would stall, at which point I would have to push it out of the canyon to get reception again. Most canyons are pretty deep, that would make a hell of a push! However, I think that there is actually some merit to the idea. The energy could be stored in a battery in a similar fashion to brake regenerating systems in use on todays hybrid cars. Would it generate enough power to compensate for the energy required to move weight of the equipment? _____ _______________________________________________ Miatapower mailing list [email protected] http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower
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