From: mike 

On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 09:23:46 -0400, mike  wrote:

>On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 23:34:38 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Mike N."  wrote in message
>>news:bm4k63loh9g7rpbbffdkb37lar851t2635{at}4ax.com...
>>> On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:58:20 -0400, Rich Gauszka
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>"The big showstopper for this," says theoretical
physicist Douglas Stone
>>>>of Yale University, who was not part of the study,
"would be if people,
>>>>entities or devices that are not supposed to absorb the radiation do
>>>>absorb it."
>>>
>>>   That is quite a kicker if it works as illustrated.   It could easily
>>> interfere with a ultra low power non-resonant object such as a
pacemaker.
>>> Then the message subject would be 'Death Knell for the
pacemaker wearer'.
>>>
>>>  I wonder if resonant coupling was the mysterious long distance power
>>> transmission demoed by Tesla so many years ago that no one has
duplicated?
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power_transmission
>>>
>>> I didn't remember that Tesla had done so many of these types of
>>> experiments:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
>>>
>>>  (And I even toured the Tesla Museum  in Colorado Springs)
>>
>>and the death knell for Telsa's financial backing was
>>
>>http://www.teslasociety.com/biography.htm
>>Because of a dispute between Morgan and Tesla as to the final use of the
>>tower.  Morgan withdrew his funds.  The financier's classic comment
was, "If
>>anyone can draw on the power, where do we put the meter?"
>>
>
>WABC in NYC is a 50,000 watt AM station whose antenna is located in the
>middle of a residential area in New Jersey.
>http://www.musicradio77.com/transm.html
>
>About thirty years ago, one of its residential neighbors (let's call him
>"Fred") erected a resonant coil in his backyard tuned to 770kHz.  Fred
>was sucking in enough power to supplement the heating of his house
>during the winter.
>
>All was going fine until the WABC Station Engineer notice a change in
>the station's radiation pattern.  A little sleuthing discovered the coil
>in Fred's yard.
>
>WABC protested, Fred said, "I am just listening to your station."
>
>Long story short, Fred agreed to take down the coil and WABC paid Fred
>an undisclosed monthly amount of money.
>
> /m


btw, here's the tower in question.
http://www.google.com/maps?q=Lodi,+NJ,+USA&ie=UTF8&ll=40.880546,-74.069213&spn=
0.001188,0.002755&t=h&z=19&om=1

  /m

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