Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!ncrlnk!ncrwic!encad!jpederse From: jpederse@encad.Wichita.NCR.COM (John Pedersen) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Free power from 'whispering wires' ?? Summary: Yet another use for superconductors Keywords: power transmission Message-ID: <461@encad.Wichita.NCR.COM> Date: 15 Jul 88 19:49:51 GMT References: <3170@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM> <320@ns.ns.com> Reply-To: jpederse@encad.UUCP (John Pedersen) Organization: NCR Corporation, Wichita, Kansas Lines: 18 In article <320@ns.ns.com> logajan@ns.ns.com (John Logajan x3118) writes: |>In article <3170@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM>, steves@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM (Steve Shellans) writes: |>> Would it be possible to tap part of the energy from those high voltage |>> power transmission lines? |> |>It is possible to place an inductor near any AC source and tap some of the |>energy present. The problem is that the field density is very low and the |>coupling (distance etc) is not good. So you really can't get much power out |>of such a scheme. To draw power from a DC field by 'rotating' your inductor |>would require that you put in as much (more actually) power as you get out. Heres another good use for low cost superconductivity........ -- John.Pedersen@Wichita.NCR.COM NCR Engineering & Manufacturing EMC Engineering Wichita KS 316-636-8837