You know those crystal sets that people played with many years ago? They enabled you to listen to radio using a high impedance earphone, without a battery, because the radio waves induce a small voltage in the circuit (forgive me if I don’t understand it fully)
Well, I’ve often wondered why thousands or even millions of these circuits couldn’t be connected in series to give us some free meaningful power. If someone could explain..
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Ignoring all the other issues, it isn’t free power. You’re simply stealing power from the radio station. If you got a significant amount of power this way, it would disrupt the radio transmission, the FCC would find you, and you would have to try to explain yourself in Federal court.
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