If a power company says I am stealing power then the power company must be
Allcanadian
I have personal knowledge of a Farmer being taken to Court here in B.C. near Clinton he had strung several hundreds of feet of wire out on his Hayfield right under the High tension powerlines. He ended up in Court having to defend himself against the charges of theft of power laid against him by the then B.C. Hydro.
Sorry He lost!!!
professor
QUOTE=Allcanadian;30567]@amigo
Yes, this is a called a "net charge", if you google "electrostatics- net charge" you will have your answers to everything posted here. What should be noted however is that when a positively charged object is brought near a neutral conductor then one end of the conductor nearest the (+) charge will be charged negative and the other end of the conductor will be charged positive. This is not a net charge but a potential difference between the conductor ends, this potential difference requires a "current" to seperate as the movement of charge between a potential difference "IS" an electric current when charging or discharging. If the conductor is then connected to a source of electrons, ground or a metal plate then the conductor can be said to have a net negative charge. What is not readily apparent is the fact that a small current must be present when the conductor charges seperate and when the ground introduces electrons to the conductor. The conductor and the positively charged object can then be considered a capacitor because they will discharge into one another producing yet again---another electric current flow. That seems like quite a bit of current flow considering all you have done is to positively charge a single object or plate of a capacitor.
@All
There is much more here than meets the eye, what has not been considered is magnitude of charge. I have built the AV plug/cap circuit and can charge the cap to 1.5v in a minute or so from what some call RF energy. I have also charged 50/10uF caps from an AV plug diode grid these caps discharged in series produce a voltage of over 70 volts. The question I had to ask is --- is there any limitations to this technology? If fact there is no limit

If a person could build a miniturized capacitance with integrated AV plugs and 10,000 or more of these could be packed in a small area like integrated circuits often are then-- I will let you do the math. As to where the energy comes from, the burden of proof would not lie on me if I was accused of stealing power. Is it RF---from which frequency then and which station, If a power company says I am stealing power then the power company must be polluting my space with EM energy, energy I did not ask for nor want. Both parties are not stupid enough to open that can of worms as there are certain liabilities they must assume when doing so.
Regards
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