From: mike 

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.

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