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From: rwa@auvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Living near high tension lines
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Date: Mon, 9-Nov-87 02:08:32 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  9 02:08:32 1987
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Summary: now, why does the coupling HAVE to be magnetic?? e-fields work too, nyet?



Mr Lippmann provides us with an erudite and convincing (to me, anyway)
rationale which leads one to view claims of free power via m-field
coupling with suspicion.  Fine.  Could someone, anyone, tell me why the
E-field couldn't be used instead?  Obviously the impedances would be
pretty amazingly high; but that's what #40 magnet wire's all about ;-)

By the way, I have _absolutely_ no idea as to the practicality of this
suggestion, either.

Ross Alexander @ Athabasca U.