Harvesting Electric Power from High Voltage Overhead Power Lines?

[K'Tesh]

And with that gentlemen I need to switch it up... It's currently 3 am local... I need to recharge... Off to bed!

 

[bad_idea]

If a person gets a buzz from stealing electricity, ohm going to wonder watt else they'll steal.

 

[K'Tesh]

I can't sleep... All this static has me unable to get the rest I need. Maybe I should try listening to some old music... Neil Diamond's "Cracklin' Rosie" sounds about right...

 

[K'Tesh]

If a person gets a buzz from stealing electricity, ohm going to wonder watt else they'll steal.

Makes you blow a fuse... One minute it's there... A second later ZAP!!! Magic Blue Smoke and everything Hertz...

 

[K'Tesh]

The same thing when you hold older florescent tube bulbs in your hands at night under them and they lite up

If you bury the bulbs do they grow up to be power plants?

 

[K'Tesh]

Neil didn't work... How about... Debbie Boone?



[EDIT] Maybe that wasn't a bright idea... I need to dim it down a bit...

 

[NTP2]

You need to amp it up... It took me an arc second.

I tried to think up an electrical joke about bragging but couldn’t…

 

[Rob Campbell]

 

[Blast it Tom!]

Ok, so long ages ago, they we're thinking about a new 500 KV line to tie Western and Estern PA together. With the demise of the steel mills, we had a lot of excess generating capacity in the Pittsburgh area.
And the objections started; face it, nobody wants these things around, but by God, the lights better go on when you flick the switch... anyway, the objections centered on th EMF thing. The two partners, my bosses, who were long veterans of electric machinery design of all sizes were discussing the issue. One said, "Well, we've had one behind our place all these years and the girls grew up fine."
Now I had (at that time) twin 69 KV circuits running overhead at my place, and I told them that. The other boss got real serious. " Hold on a second, here, wait a minute. All bets are off. 110 [volts] is too much!" And he winked and smiled, but good Lord am I an easy target!

So now it's just a single 139 KV circuit... Hmm...

 

[AtlPhilip]

Remember that when you do this you are building the secondary half of a transformer where the primary "winding" is 70-750KV. It is very easy to find yourself dealing with dangerous voltages.

 

[K'Tesh]

I tried to think up an electrical joke about bragging but couldn’t…

I'm Shocked!!!

 

[K'Tesh]

I tried to think up an electrical joke about bragging but couldn’t…

I hope you don't have a long phase... and that I can spark an idea...

 

[Blast it Tom!]

Remember that when you do this you are building the secondary half of a transformer where the primary "winding" is 70-750KV. It is very easy to find yourself dealing with dangerous voltages.

No kidding! I guess I should be a little clearer when I'm joking, honestly. And I was.

But in the spirit of what this thread has transformed into, I wish you well... one good TURN deserves another!

 

[K'Tesh]

No kidding! I guess I should be a little clearer when I'm joking, honestly. And I was.

But in the spirit of what this thread has transformed into, I wish you well... one good TURN deserves another!

I frequency engage in puns

 

[SDramstad]

Mess with power lines and you can get Inducted for a Darwin award

 

[NTP2]

I frequency engage in puns

Don’t i know it!

 

[K'Tesh]

Mess with power lines and you can get Inducted for a Darwin award

I had a classmate in high school that almost proved that... Poor guy climbed everything he could as a little kid... until one day he shimmied up a power pole... He lost his right arm to the shoulder, and his left arm to just below the elbow (he had one of those cable operated claws for manipulating things). In high school he was a hell of a good soccer player (seriously). We worked on the investment assignment in Economics together (we looked up everything at the last moment using the newspaper archive).

Later, when I was stationed in England (and had put on about 3 stone) I spotted him in Oxford while I was walking with my fiancé. I let him pass me (he didn't recognize me, and had never seen me with a girlfriend), then I spun around and in my best fake British accent, said "Well Fine David! Don't say Hi!" He was (pun unintended) shocked to be recognized, and had no idea who I was until I reminded him that I had helped him cheat in Economics. Me, I was loading F-111Es for the USAF. He was on his way to Lisbon to attend university.

 

[K'Tesh]

Don’t i know it!

You have to stop living such an insulated life! Strip! (except for some silly shocks) Dance like a live wire! And don't forget to fill your cup to full capacitance!

 

[K'Tesh]

This brought up an old memory...



Of course when we saw this and heard the line "What happens when your kite winds around a powerline?" we always yelled "YANK IT DOWN!!!"

 

[techrat]

You have to stop living such an insulated life! Strip dance like a live wire, and don't forget to fill your cup to full capacitance!

This thread is draining me, I have to recharge before my lights go out. I'm shocked that the creative spark here has been so electrifying. I posit that generating watt you seek is enlightening. I'm positive that this galvanize you towards bias in this field.

 

[DAllen]

 

[DAllen]

 

[WoShuGui]

Power line harvesting is central to the Birds Aren’t Real conspiracy experiment.
https://www.newsweek.com/birds-arent-real-followers-missouri-protest-claim-government-drones-1604190

 

[K'Tesh]

Dibs on Thunderstruck!!!

 

[DAllen]

 

[K'Tesh]

 

[DAllen]

This is probably more appropriate for people who do this induced current thingy:

 

[K'Tesh]

 

[brockrwood]

Mess with power lines and you can get Inducted for a Darwin award

Nah, I think human flesh is strictly resistive, not inductive. No coils in me!

 

[K'Tesh]

Mess with power lines and you can get Inducted for a Darwin award

Nah, I think human flesh is strictly resistive, not inductive. No coils in me!

Either way... You touch the wrong one and you can easily diodie.