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I heard of a similar story when taking a tour of a local transmition station as a kid. You can light up fluorescent tubes by placing them on the ground under hi

by fy20 5y ago

I heard of a similar story when taking a tour of a local transmition station as a kid. You can light up fluorescent tubes by placing them on the ground under high voltage power lines, so I'd assume something like that is how this would work: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2004/feb/26/thisweekssciencequestions4 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2004/feb/26/thisweekssci... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cXhZvyGtMrk https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cXhZvyGtMrk

Sylamore 5y ago
Many many moons ago, when I hung out in a group that ran CBs with linear amps, we used to win bets with people by saying that we could light up a florescent bulb without any kind of power source... which we did by holding the bulb near the CB antenna and keying up.
- MawKKe 5y ago
  you won the bet...by using a power source? :)
  - xwdv 5y ago
    They were swindlers, raking in hundreds in cash using scientific knowledge that was indistinguishable from magic to lesser educated minds.
  - Sylamore 5y ago
    a wireless power source if you will
- ben_w 5y ago
  My dad had a story about this happening by accident at his workplace. There was a lightbulb which wouldn’t switch off. Electrician came in, tested the switch, very confused, took the glowing light out of its socket and it still continued to shine.