Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcilzb!eric From: eric@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Eric Novikoff) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Free power from 'whispering wires' ?? Message-ID: <1310011@hpcilzb.HP.COM> Date: 6 Jul 88 17:24:36 GMT References: <3170@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM> Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA Lines: 11 You CS types need to take an E+M class!!!! If you're lucky enough to still be in school and you're really interested, go for it. A lot of what you discussed comes perilously close to Perpetual Motion! (Especially the DC transmission line stuff - you'd have to put as much energy into the motor as you got out of the coil....) If you want free power, buy a nice little house on a acre of land near a creek in the Appalachians, the Adirondacks, the Rockies, the Sierras, the Cascades, etc. and install your own hydro plant. I have a friend in the Adirondacks who does just that and has the power company BUY the extra electricity back! Plus he has something to tinker with on those long weekends.... Have fun!