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10-24-2011, 02:50 PM
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Shhhhhhh.
For years, I've been powering my house with it, for free.
The trick is in the receiver.
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Hey, it's been done. I remember reading about a guy who was getting a lot of "free" energy through inductive coupling to nearby high tension lines via a fairly complex setup. He wound up being prosecuted despite the fact that all his equipment was on his own property and he never touched the power company's equipment.
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10-24-2011, 04:45 PM
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Hey, it's been done...........
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I think that was Nords. I have heard that he has some weird panel thingy on his roof that sucks power from outer space.
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10-24-2011, 05:01 PM
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Hey, it's been done. I remember reading about a guy who was getting a lot of "free" energy through inductive coupling to nearby high tension lines via a fairly complex setup. He wound up being prosecuted despite the fact that all his equipment was on his own property and he never touched the power company's equipment.
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Of course the first problem is that he had to live close enough to a transmission tower to be able to exploit the inductive coupling. My Dad (a Westinghouse electrical engineer) used to tell the horror stories about routing high-voltage power lines to avoid just those types of situations.
Considering what the power company could have done to sabotage his equipment, I'd say prosecution was a pretty tame approach.
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I think that was Nords. I have heard that he has some weird panel thingy on his roof that sucks power from outer space.
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Shhhh-- if you tell people how the secret photon interceptor works then everyone will want to have one!!
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10-28-2011, 06:32 AM
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Here is a new development in quantum computing. Some scientists have constructed a solid state 2 qubit QC that can output computations to a separate register for memory and readout. Looks to potentially be scaleable. And the qubits last a whole 400 nanoseconds  (but luckily it only takes 30n to make a computation). They will be cracking our bank accounts in no time.
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10-28-2011, 10:57 AM
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A faster-than-light particle is a tachyon, which means that the muon neutrino could arrive before it was sent.
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10-28-2011, 11:02 AM
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"We don't allow your kind in here," the bartender said. A muon neutrino walks into a bar.
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10-28-2011, 11:19 AM
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Look. Nobody tell me the ending - I'm only halfway thru the book - 'How the Hippies Saved Physics' by that MIT prof.
Faster than light and muti dimension stuff is ho hum to those guys.
I still need to get to the 80's and 90's yet.
heh heh heh - yeh yeh yeh we're going into game 7 of The World Series and I'm reading a stupid book.  . I wonder if the grand opening (if it occurs) of the demo plant will be as exciting. 
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11-18-2011, 06:19 AM
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11-18-2011, 06:48 AM
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Look. Nobody tell me the ending - I'm only halfway thru the book - 'How the Hippies Saved Physics' by that MIT prof.
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The important question is, is the book good? I like physics books and will order it from the library if it is entertaining.
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