Earth Battery Beneath Power Lines

[czimborbryan]

If an Earth battery were to be constructed beneath power lines, would it recapture power lost by radiation?

[the_big_m_in_ok]

If an Earth battery were to be constructed beneath power lines, would it recapture power lost by radiation?

The frequency of the overhead lines and the earth's natural frequencie(s) are different.  If I'm not mistaken, unless there's some frequency resonance, there should be no interaction at all.

--Lee

[Pirate88179]

The frequency of the overhead lines and the earth's natural frequencie(s) are different.  If I'm not mistaken, unless there's some frequency resonance, there should be no interaction at all.

--Lee

I agree.

Bill

[jadaro2600]

As I understand it, the draw from the line is insignificant amounts of current with moderate amounts of voltage.

I would try this, but I fear controversy.

I think the idea would be to use a coil for a source, and an iron rod which is grounded, I suppose you would need to place the coil parallel to the line, and have a wire off the core to ground.  This may help conduction, but any significant losses CAN be detected by the power company, ..so installing something permanent is a bad idea ...for experimental purposes..

and legally, ..honestly, anything transmitted via radio waves is technically up for grabs, regardless of whether or not it loads the transmitter, the transmitter assumes that the waves will be harnessed by something, therefore, ...it seems logical that the electromagnetic energy from it is intended to be free.

Good luck arguing that though, ..audio is one thing, hertzian chaos is another.

We are subjected to it, therefore we should be able to utilize it, otherwise it is unwanted, and therefore harassment of sorts.  Such things have to be proven with malice, though, and intent.

[czimborbryan]

Ahha, jadaro2600, you get my point.

Instead of drawing more power from the lines than what would normally be radiated or lost, I would like to recover the loss  -  for free and in no way be taking anything that wasn't lost to the electric company to begin with.  Kind of like scavenging the decomposing energy that runs over my property.