Tapping into residual electricity

[Numpty]

I've always wondered about this. Never experimented with it.



What he is saying makes sense, but the the shirt he is wearing does not.

Mod note, the above video shows a guy charging a cell phone from the static electricity off high power electrical lines. please include a description with your links

 

[Weight]

Did not see the video. But the wires strung along road sides, or even the wires in your house, have an electromagnetic field that can excite a copper coil and cause a current to flow. The 5V low amps need by a phone could be easily captured.

 

[DannyB1954]

I once seen a photo of someone holding a florescent light tube under a main power line, and the bulb was glowing. I don't think the residential lines carry enough amperage. I think that you would need to be near the lines that run into a city

 

[Weight]

Back in boy scout days we built a heavy coil of wire like 1/2 a transformer fastened to a six volt bulb. The bulb would light as long as the ceiling lights were on in the meeting room auditorium. I don't remember the details but it did weigh about 10 pounds.

 

[lenny flank]

Sounds dangerous.

Also sounds illegal.

 

[ZoNiE]

It's called induction. It is basically how a transformer works. One guy got caught powering his home with a huge coil under a power line over his property. The power line was basically the primary and his coil was the secondary. His argument was that the energy was free because it was radiated but the secondary actually creates a load on the power line and that is how they found him...