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[Turbo]

Using an antenna and ground makes more sense.

It is the exact way around.
The wire first needs to be charged up to a high potential.
This will create 'disequilibrium' and nature will see this and act on it by restoring equilibrium/voltage potential.
That restoring action can be loaded to drive a closed loop circuit.
Essentially for free because the first high voltage tension was created for free / without current,
From a charged capacitor that doesn't get loaded so can be used over and over again.

[jimbo]

Hay guys great thinking .one of my phobias is that some day I will have nothing in my head and my skull will collapse. Quote from  fight club. Good hunting gentleman. Jim out.

[Bob Smith]

Hey Jim yes testing is required, but you have to have a direction.
Using a cap to pull energy from the ambient makes sense.
Load one side and the other side is going to have a deficit, which creates a vacuum.

Agreed. Don Smith's use of capacitor shows us that there is a great amount of charge in the dielectric medium (between the capacitor's plates, and around the capacitor itself).  The charge on the output capacitor plate in DS' example isn't transferred from the input plate. Rather, it is supplied from the dielectric.

By placing a stress of potential difference on the dielectric (via the potential difference between the 2 capacitor plates), the dielectric is forced to respond. Here is where the idea of antenna and ground come in. The antenna and ground essentially widen the window of potential difference and enable the circuit to place a greater amount of stress on the dielectric between the capacitor plates. This allows the circuit - and more specifically, the capacitor - to do what Dave says, - "pull energy from the ambient."
Bob

[Turbo]

Not between the capacitor plates Bob but on nature itself from the capacitor.
The charge is used to stress the local environment to bait nature.

[Bob Smith]

Not between the capacitor plates Bob but on nature itself from the capacitor.
The charge is used to stress the local environment to bait nature.

Thanks Turbo,
I agree. The dielectric medium is pervasive - not just within the cap, but also around it as one coextensive reality that becomes stressed to push back.
Bob