Posted on 05/24/2016 2:56:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I don’t know if I’d say stealing, since the radio stations, etc, send the energy out there with no expectation that it will ever return.
However, you’re right, it’s not “free”, it’s just “free for me”.
Also, it’s a lot harder to electrocute yourself to death working with DC power, as Edison loved to point out when he was hocking it.
Can’t have that. That’s white privilege at work.
Free energy, the energy companies will silence him. They didn’t much care for Tesla despite, or because of, the fortune he made for them.
Well, there’s such a thing as stupid and there’s also self-correcting stupid.
You'll get millions of micro watts. That will be enough to power a couple of night lights. Electromagnetic energy in the air must come from near by emitting sources. It looses efficiency at the cube of the distance from the source. Only a tiny fraction of it is harvestable. It is about the least efficient way of transmitting power imaginable.
“Have at it FReepers ... fact or fiction ?
Not enough in the video for me to say one way or another”
Lets just say this is only slightly more legit than the Clock Kid.
The amount of energy you are going to get this way is extremely small overall. You would have to be very close to a source of a man made electromagnetic field to get anything significant. Wait and see how well this kids “invention” works during a power outage when all significant sources of electromagnetic emission would be gone. Which is why it really is not free.
Whats more it is not an invention since the principle is simply the use of electricity and magnetism in way that has already been done. But it is not really practical in most cases in the real world to use a device like this. That is why such devices are not sold.
I believe that Tesla had a vision of generating extremely high voltage electricity and beaming it wirelesly to remote locations. Not only would that not be free energy, but the safety problems would be beyond extreme. The modern day media is too stupid to do any research.
If only kevmo and willie green had hooked up, we would have free public transportation everywhere...:)
“Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs”
If it isn’t a Clock... he better be White
Sadly I once had a Carnegie-Mellon engineering grad try to argue exactly that with me. I called his attention back to the three laws of thermodynamics and he finally changed his argument to making it more efficient.
“Crystal radios have done this for over 100 years.”
Built my first one almost 60 years ago when I was in the Scouts.
I thought the opposite was true!
Right now I am using about 6.5vdc to make colloidal silver, so wooo for that.
You are brilliant.
Next up, please invent a sailboat that has a big fan that fills the sails and thus propels itself.
Apparently free energy costs $14.
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