A British artist placed 1,300 fluorescent tubes in a field directly below high voltage power lines. Although the tubes aren’t connected to anything but the earth, they are fully illuminated because of this phenomenon, “Powerlines are typically 400,000 volts, and Earth is at an electrical potential of zero volts, pylons create electric fields.”
The point wasn’t to expose the dangers of living near power lines, it was simply to create a neat lighting display. Nevertheless, it would be pretty awesome to “drive along the highway and glance into a field to see a giant array of fluorescent tubes lit wirelessly from the electromagnetic fields of power lines.” Check out more of the artist’s work.
Similarly, Bre Pettis demonstrated wireless electricity in his History Hacker show on Discovery Channel (above).
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