You reminded me of the “free energy” clowns that put induction coils under high power transmission lines.
I once spent a few days on a large ranch. It had high voltage power lines running across it.
One day the rancher got in trouble. The power company landed a helicopter on his property.
Turns out that his sons & friends were goofing off and laid the irrigation piping end to end for over a mile.
Such a long line parallel to electrical wires does induce an electric current in the secondary ‘wire’.
They were playing around with static electricity buildup and spark gaps and even whether you could hear banging on the pipe a mile away [nope, not even with a stethoscope].
At any rate, the rancher got fined for stealing electricity.
The power company was claiming that the pranksters even risked the lives of the helicopter crew due to the much increased likelihood of a static discharge when the flew their inspection flights between the power lines and the irrigation pipe, which struck me as bullshiite.