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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
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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........

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John.Pedersen@Wichita.NCR.COM
NCR Engineering & Manufacturing
EMC Engineering Wichita KS
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