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Old 06-30-07 | 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted by ModoVincere
If your close enough to a powerful enough transmitter, an antenna may produce enough wattage (volts*amps) to run some small lighting (LED's?) but you won't light up a house this way. This is how the old crystal diode radios work without an external power source. The radio waves actually generate a small current in the coiled antenna.
you could light your whole house if you live under transmission lines:



sculpture by richard box... he used 831 tubes all lit by the em field from the towers.
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