HERE IS YOUR FREE ENERGY. HANDLE WITH CARE.

[sparks]

    Crystal atoms are in a Mexican stand-off so to speak.  The neuclei of the atoms don't roll to align with the magnetic field change of the imposed wave but move linearly.  This causes mechanical vibration of the crystal. The vibration of the crystal is also felt by the electron field.  The vibration can shake-off an electron from it's atomic orbital and generate a current. If the mechanical properties of the crystal are such that it gives rise to a resonating vibration at a given frequency you get preferential reception.  It is a very inefficient means of generating an electrical current.  Perhaps if the crystal collector was mechanically attached to a magnetic field propogator within whose field lies a conductor there could be electrical current generated in the conductor directly from vibration of the crystal.
   
@Koen1

      I think one was talking about storing the energy in a magnetic circuit.  By removing the magnetic "keeper" the magnetic field collapses and you get the input energy that made it back out.

[hansvonlieven]

G'day all,

I think what One is talking about is the integration of what Ed Leedskalnin called his "perpetual motion holder" into some sort of a circuit.

Hans von Lieven

[gn0stik]

Radio Towers transmit in the Megawatt range. No free energy here. Every piece of wire on the planet picks up radio waves. If you could use a similar device to pick up natural signals, and make it do work, then we'd have something to talk about.

[hansvonlieven]

Actually Gnostic you can do this now.

If you string an antenna in the middle of the Simpson Desert or on an isolated island in the Pacific for instance, you will not get a radio signal in a detector circuit.

You don't get silence either. You will get static though. That static is enough to energise the high impedance magnets in an old fashioned set of headphones.

Hans von Lieven

[crash_uni8]

@One
how much energy do you suppose this device could "harvest"?