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Old 08-10-2009, 11:39 AM   #34 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ConnClark View Post
Except you start reducing the range that radio transmitters can transmit so they have to resort to using more power to transmit. You may not pay for it directly but someone will and some of that cost will find its way back to you.

There is no free lunch
If possible, patent the energy collection device. Then just say something like: "I discovered this strange atmospheric energy phenomenon while experimenting with Tesla coils and here's the patent I got on it. Now I'm using it to help America get off foreign oil dependence."

Even if it's not free energy, it does not load down the grid and reclaims a resource that is currently being wasted. Technically, it would be more efficient to put that electricity into the grid using a grid tie inverter, but generating hydrogen would solve an energy storage problem.
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