Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!ucdavis!uop!todd From: todd@uop.edu ( Dr. Nethack ) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Free power from 'whispering wires' ?? Summary: here we go again! Keywords: Farmer's free electricity (Was: power transmission) Message-ID: <1590@uop.edu> Date: 7 Jul 88 06:17:35 GMT References: <3170@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM> <5373@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Organization: Uop Ethernet Gateway to mayhem Lines: 18 Yes it is possible to "rip off" power from lines. The family I used to live with, has an uncle who uses borrowed power to run a string of light bulbs in his barn this way. This was hashed over last year.. anyone save a copy? You want to really talk about "free" power?? Nahh, I don't want to vanish into never-never land just yet! Can't say everything I know about!! --- ARPA cogent!uop!todd@lll-winken.arpa BITNET ucdavis!uop!todd@ucbvax.BITNET Or something like that UUCP ucbvax!ucdavis!uop!todd anyway... UUNET uop!todd@uunet.uu.net