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| Thread ID: 82931 | 2007-09-13 17:49:00 | Google or Blackle? | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 590862 | 2007-09-16 20:55:00 | What !! you have been gravely mis-informed - I think you are more likely to find these systems in rural USA than in NZ . I honestly don't think it exists here any more either . Funnily enough, New York city at one time had over 10 electricity providers and 10 different voltages and cycles . . some were even DC . At one time, you could just drive a couple of copper rods into the ground and get free electricity . All you had to do was vary the distance between the rods to change the voltages . |
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| 590863 | 2007-09-16 20:58:00 | At one time, you could just drive a couple of copper rods into the ground and get free electricity. All you had to do was vary the distance between the rods to change the voltages. Lol at your sig. How did that work? With driving rods into the ground...??:confused: |
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| 590864 | 2007-09-16 21:32:00 | Since the "ground" of the system . . or the terminus (?) was for the electricity to seek ground, that's where the final leg of the system went . . . and it actually enlivened (the term they used in the day) the ground (ie: dirt) with electrical eddy currents . If you drove a rod into the ground, it would be charged with the current flowing past it . . . underground that is . So . . . drive a second stake a number of feet away and then measure the voltage differential betwixt the two . . VOILA! . . Free electrons! All you had to do was tune the distance and get the voltage you want . |
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