I remember hearing about a law suit in an engineering law class I had to
take way back when. It seems a farmer had a long fence running under and
parallel to a high tension distribution line. He had hidden a copper line
in it and was harvesting enough power to operate most of his farm buildings.
This amounted to a measurable loss from the distribution line and the power
company found him out and sued. The court ruled he had to pay for power
used in the past and stop getting his power that way. Considering the
source I don't think this is an urban legend.
Regards.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Harris" <[email protected]>
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] White LED's
Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
I should have added, it carried on glowing for some time after I got
home too. At that point, I was well away from the train lines, though we
do have 11 kV overhead cables around 30m from the house. It eventually
stopped glowing so I assume it was the presence of the overhead train
lines which caused this.
When I was a kid, there was a main set of high tension power lines several
hundred yards from my house. I had friends that had garden sheds under
the
towers that were lit by fluorescent lamps collecting the stray fields. A
piece of wire on each end of the bulb enhanced the effect.
I knew of one guy that had a big coil of wire in the roof of his shed
and he could light a 100W incandescent bulb from the stray fields.
-Chuck Harris
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