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Topic started on 19-2-2013 @ 05:24 PM by AldrinAlden

German student creates electromagnetic harvester that gathers free electricity from thin air


www.extrem etech.com
A German student has built an electromagnetic harvester that recharges an AA battery by soaking up ambient, environmental radiation. These harvesters can gather free electricity from just about anything, including overhead power lines, coffee machines, refrigerators, or even the emissions from your WiFi router or smartphone.
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reply posted on 19-2-2013 @ 05:38 PM by Grimpachi
reply to post by AldrinAlden



It depends. I read about something like this before a couple of times. I have never known if it was real or hoax.

The thing is power lines bleed off electricity anyway so if you can recapture that energy you are not really taking anything away. This is an interesting find and it makes me want to research this more.

I remember reading about a guy who built coils in his attic that he claimed it captured enough electricity to power his house just like in your article he said he had to position them correctly. It made the news because the power company tried to prosecute him for stealing power but they failed to in court because there wasn’t connection but they still confiscated his setup. This was about 15 years ago.

A built a tiny Bendini coil once and it powered a LED I think it works off the same principle.

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reply posted on 19-2-2013 @ 05:47 PM by CaticusMaximus
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BTW, this technology already exists in the mainstream from what I understand.

Example: anyone have one of those "smart" cards for the metro? Inside they contain no power source, yet store data. So how does one of the machines receive the data off the card, then write data onto it when you use the card, if the internal electronics have no power source to move the bits around into different configurations?

Answer: it utilizes the EM fields from the machine and turns those fields into tiny electric currents that is just enough to transmit / write small amounts of data.

RF Induction


reply posted on 19-2-2013 @ 05:58 PM by Gu1tarJohn
Originally posted by Grimpachi
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post by AldrinAlden



It depends. I read about something like this before a couple of times. I have never known if it was real or hoax.

The thing is power lines bleed off electricity anyway so if you can recapture that energy you are not really taking anything away. This is an interesting find and it makes me want to research this more.

I remember reading about a guy who built coils in his attic that he claimed it captured enough electricity to power his house just like in your article he said he had to position them correctly. It made the news because the power company tried to prosecute him for stealing power but they failed to in court because there wasn’t connection but they still confiscated his setup. This was about 15 years ago.

A built a tiny Bendini coil once and it powered a LED I think it works off the same principle.

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If I'm not mistaken, people have gotten in some real trouble for setting up induction coils that collect power radiating off of power lines to power their houses. I don't think this would be a big deal though. It's probably only collecting mW.



reply posted on 19-2-2013 @ 06:05 PM by Gu1tarJohn
reply to post by nomnom



That's an interesting question: How exactly do you define "Free Energy"?

Love the avatar, BTW!


reply posted on 19-2-2013 @ 06:13 PM by sputniksteve
Originally posted by nomnom
Originally posted by sputniksteve
Yes but that ambient radiation is still be generated by some reaction so it is not "Free". It might not cost you anything, and it might not cost someone else MORE, but it is not free energy.


That's an interesting perspective. So how do you qualify "free energy"? Energy... out of nowhere

Free Energy

The only definition which satisfies what you seem to imply is under pseudoscience.

Why stick with that one

It's free energy, as far as it's considered by the sciences, and economics.


Well "Free Energy" in most circumstances is energy that is gained in excess of what it cost to generate it. For instance if you are sucking ambient power from a power line or refrigerator than coal was still burned, or nuclear rods still produced steam etc. Hence my saying it might be monetarily free to the person using the device but someone still had to do something to create the energy that is transferred and used so somewhere down the line another resource was used to generate it.

"Free energy" in a non monetary sense is unproven and a fairy tale as far as I know. That's why we still have power bills.


reply posted on 19-2-2013 @ 06:13 PM by Grimpachi
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You are right people have gotten in trouble I just do not know if the courts could ever convict. The guy I heard about had his setup taken but I don’t think the courts convicted.

Power lines lose power anyway they just do not want you to collect it.


reply posted on 19-2-2013 @ 06:27 PM by sputniksteve
reply to post by nomnom



If you can figure out how to get "free energy" in a non monetary sense you will have changed all of mankind for eternity and probably get yourself suicided. It's not like I am making things up or trying to be a downer. Many people have made the claim before and not one of them as far as anyone knows has ever been proven to actually work.

I don't think you are quite understanding the definition of free energy. Getting it from a source without paying for it is not the same thing. Now having said that you are right if he can take it to the middle of the desert where there are no power lines or electronics and still generate a charge he might be onto something but from what I understand that is not what is being claimed.

Stealing or gathering it from electronic sources or powerlines is not free essentially, some resource was used to generate it to begin with.

Ok enough redundancy on my part I think I got my point across.
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