Its the current that kills not the voltage.

Utility easements are usually 100'. 50 either side of center.

Brilliant difference ideas for an updraft carburettor ,Thinking outside the box. Try a very large new oil filter with your same idea .

The human body is an antenna. That's why they bombard us with harmful electromagnetic radiation. It makes us sick and disrupts all of our bodies functions. The elites live in em free zones because they know how harmful it is.

static electricity in the air 😂 Danger High Voltage is no joke

Every electricity produced by collecting magnetic fields around power lines is indeed theft. Every time you collect power, the company have to produce more to transmit the same power to the destination.

Wood is good! Great info in your series, many thanks.

Take some 4' fluorescents out there, they'll probably light up, if not excite them with a transmitter radio 1-5 watts to start them, antenna right up to tube.

If you installed diodes in series with your wire on poles would the voltage add?

Have you tried an earth ground

The vinegar soaked board is doing essentially nothing. Just drive nails on both ends but leave the wire off. You should read virtually nothing but maybe a little bit of voltage picked up by the meter wires. Wood, vinegar or not, is a terrible conductor. But the copper wire is a very good conductor. There is an electromagnetic field around the power lines but it decreases exponentially wit distance. But it can still induce voltage potential in conductors passing through the field. That is what you are seeing. You should try going out at night with long fluorescent bulbs. They should glow! Generally what you are doing is relatively safe, but you are in that field and you are conducting a very small part of that field to ground, which is why you see the voltage in the wire drop when you are close by. You create an effect similar to what the rooted trees and bushes do, but they are better grounded although less conductive than a human meat bag! Instantaneous current should be quite low but it can probably charge a capacitor over time if you use diodes to rectify it to DC. It might be interesting to build a circuit with an LED. you probably can't get quite enough current to light the LED continuously, but probably could use it to charge a capacitor and ten trigger it to flash the LED. I can't began to guess at component values but LEDs are typically around 1.8 to 3 volts. A transistor cold be used to trigger the LED when the charge voltage gets high enough. In theory, you could automatically cycle it from charge to flash. You can push LEDS to higher voltages very briefly. I think it would be pretty cool to have a string of these little LED flasher circuits set up to flash in thee dark. I don't have any high enough voltage lines nearby to try this. But I think it would be pretty cool! Be safe! Read up a bit and have a good idea what to expect. I think the energy levels are potentially enough to build a pretty good charge on a capacitor which could be dangerous.

yes, you can collect energy from hv powerline. it won't be stray, you're taking power away from the line. one would argue at which point you exceed natural loss. there is no foiled ball, eps foam, pickled boards, rainpipes and other things needed. there is more energy up you do, but eventually you die. there is also more energy depends on turns. and induction is along the wires so align your coil that way

Great experiment! Modern day Benjamin Franklin!

Its called EMF / a farmer in Texas in the 60 set up his chicken house under power lines and ran a coil on his roof and it would run his lights till a surge would come through and blow all his lights in the chicken house and the power co told him he was stealing power from the power company but there was no way to prove it

With everything being the same, the current will be a function of the area of the collector conductor.

Is one lead of the volt meter connected to a ground rod? What is the difference in voltage/current measured in a wire mounted on a board with vinegar wash and without vinegar wash?

Ive made graphene onto wood with my laser engraver , betcha that would work in an interdigitated capacitor array 🤔

Very cool!!

I'm happy I found your channel 🤙 I'm curious....🤔 Are you familiar with electric culture, 🍀⚡? You may not be interested in the cultivation of plants but there are several designs that I believe may assist you in the obtaining of information regarding some of your experiments. ✌️⚡🖖 Much love from North Carolina.

Just don't ask the company if you're allowed to do that, because the answer will be a resounding no. I watched the video here on YT, and the guy was talking about his friend, asking similar question about radio waves, and he got an answer that it is forbidden. So the solution is obviously not asking in the first place:) Is the wind moving the conductor wires above? If so, that could affect your readings, because what you're picking up is obviously some kind of induction. And the trees around are just sucking their share of electroculture, with or without antennas. But I see no reason why you would be able to read the resistance of dry wood, regardless of it being soaked in electrolyte or not as long as it is dry. Adding some water would probably change that. But your reading was from the wire, not the board anyway. It's normal that the wire functions as an antenna, so you could maybe check online antenna calculators to find out which lengths you could try for 50Hz, if that's what you have got in your area. If the conductors above are not insulated, the best harvesting method would be a metal hook attached to the thick cable, and if they are insulated metal hook, but sharpened, so you hook it up, hold on tight to the cable, and jump from the ladder, and after couple of swings you'll have te contact. Don't worry, you'll know exactly when:) Just kidding, keep up the good work!

You're doing great stretching out that inductor performing capacitance with that power line grid above you there acids or jars or any other type of capacitor will add storage for your antenna putting oscilloscope I guarantee it's 60 Hertz off that power grid.....

You are just rediscovering the experiments of Faraday and magnetic lines of flux experiments he did in 1831. You are only 193 years too late to claim a scientific discovery. But the power you are seeing isn’t even 1 watt. One of your measurements was 21.1 micro amps (.0000211 amps) times was that 18 volts = .0003789 watts(.3789 mili-watts) you are not near 1 watt (a little over 1/300 of a watt). Have fun is the most important thing for you to do.. God be with you always.

What would it take to get this power and use it?

Two things: 1.) What you're doing here is technically RF. High power lines alternate at 50 Hz. Fashion an antenna 22.3 ft long and it will tune perfectly with the "radio." 2.) Voltage is NOT power. Put a load on it and measure current. Power = IV.

I wonder what an effect it would have on a Solar Panel? Get a cheap solar panel from Harbor Freight and check the voltages and amps at various distances from the power line.

Great! I love it

Brilliant! Great scientific method, too. Thank you

can you really put a load on it or not

Have to wonder if one conductor was closer to one of the wires and the other closer to a different one, maybe could get enough current to actually do some work.

Your long wires are forming an air transformer with the power line. You can improve your setup to suck usable energy from the power. In the 50s a farmer near to us thought to do this very thing and it worked well. However, the power company has sensitive equipment watching their lines, they will detect any significant power loss and will come investigating. They will find your setup and unlease their hoard of lawyers loose on you. They knew how much energy the poor farmer had vampired from their lines, plus theft charges and whatever else they can think of. They sent the poor farmer to prison. All for enough energy to run a icebox, a couple of lightbulbs, and a radio. While it's fun to experiment and dream, don't really do it. It's not worth the trouble it brings. Even small power companies have the equipment to do this, otherwise parasitic loses would destpry their profits.

Found this a while ago. The electric potential gradient of the atmosphere On an ordinary day over flat desert country, or over the sea, as one goes upward from the surface of the ground the electric potential increases by about 100 volts per meter. Thus there is a vertical electric field E of 100 volts/m in the air. The sign of the field corresponds to a negative charge on the earth’s surface. This means that outdoors the potential at the height of your nose is 200 volts higher than the potential at your feet! You might ask: “Why don’t we just stick a pair of electrodes out in the air one meter apart and use the 100 volts to power our electric lights?” Or you might wonder: “If there is really a potential difference of 200 volts between my nose and my feet, why is it I don’t get a shock when I go out into the street?” Although the electric current-density in the air is only a few micromicroamperes per square meter, there are very many square meters on the earth’s surface. The total electric current reaching the earth’s surface at any time is very nearly constant at 1800 amperes. This current, of course, is “positive”-it carries plus charges to the earth. So we have a voltage supply of 400,000 volts with a current of 1800 amperes-a power of 700 megawatts! The current in a lightning stroke is about 10,000 amperes at its peak, and it carries down about 20 coulombs. www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_09.html

Very good experiment, to give better results at the beginning and end of the tips of the cable, solder 3 tips of the same gauge of the cable so that a snowflake figure is formed with which you will have 6 wires around the cable center that will be in the middle and check again and you will see how the voltage increases more. All of this is a result of the ions that are in the air, as the height of the cable increases (you only need one side of the cable elevated, the other could hang so that you can review the measurement with the same configuration that you have from the rod inserted in the ground as negative (actually it is the positive but since its discovery it was thought that it was negative) and the positive will be taken from the end of the cable that you have in it. high, But be careful, every meter that the tip of the cable rises with the configuration at the snowflake tip will give more or less 100 volts, therefore if I said it 10 meters more or less it will have 1000 volts (it also depends on the quality of the cable) but the important thing is that the tip has that snowflake configuration since each tip will be used for the positive ions that are found in those tips that protrude from the tip of the cable that is above, the capacitors that it has will serve to store the electrical charge but be very careful because as I just mentioned if you raise the cable 10 meters it will be more or less 1000 volts although the amperes will be very low when storing that charge in the capacitors in the air look for ground and concentrate If you touch them if you feel a strong shock because the capacitors will be discharged in a single blow, I hope this information helps you Greetings from Mexico

Coil the wire around a plastic 2"x2' drain pipe and around a 2"x2' metal pipe both about 200 windings each. and see the difference. Use wire with the skin on the metal pipe.

This shows how strong the electric fields are around the hv power like lines. Not healthy thing. If you where able to transform the voltage down to a usable voltage/current... You would get fined if caught. Interesting but not useful.

You are close to high voltage electricity cables. These radiate an electromagnetic field. Any conductor in this field will have a voltage induced in it. This will drop off the further away you are from the high voltage cables. As you observed, various things will effect this electromagnetic field such as you own body being close to the conductor. This is not free energy as it comes from the electricity grid. If you had made an efficient system to harvest this electricity then you would, in fact, be stealing from the power grid.

How many amps?

Maybe it's the zigzag pattern of the wire?

The thing you've built here is an air-core transformer, and what you're doing with it is electricity theft. Make sure the authorities remain unwise of this contraption and of its nature.

be careful posting this, it is illegal in some jurisdictions

I assume the voltage and current measurements are with respect to earth ground. What you have is two series capacitors with the power line being one plate, ground is the other, and the object on the ladder becomes a center plate forming a capacitor between it and ground and the center plate and power line. Thus you have a capacitive voltage divider. At 400V and 20 microamps the capacitive reactance is about 20 megohms. At 60 hz this translates to about 133 picofarads between the plate atop the ladder and ground. Your body forms yet another capacitor center plate between the object on the ladder and ground. The closer you stand, the greater this capacitance becomes. These capacitances in parallel add, shunting some of the current and voltage from the original cap with the ladder across it, thus lowering the measured voltage and current when standing nearby. Attempting to measure resistance of the dry board is probably greater than the highest resistance range of your DMM.

Tell us about the AMPERAGE.

I work for an electric utility you have to ground yourself properly when conducting work near transmission lines. Just about anything metal/conductive near a high voltage transmission line can build up a charge and eventually get enough potential to hurt you.

Always Good to Watch Your Inspirations👍👍👍

Pyramids wrestling nuclear power plants of sorts

Thank you so much for sharing your ideas and test results: always very interesting.

You are adding more ground reflector capacity when you get close to the circuit. So it gets out of tune when there is too much capacity. It's not about the size of the antenna. It's about the natural frequency of the antenna, it should be able to reflect about the same frequency you are trying to pick up.

This is induction I think is the word its how transformers work the coils induct a different voltage higher or lower than the primary voltage.. Please study this more before you play around much more.. Those transmission lines are carrying hundreds of thousands of volts to reduce loss.. Be careful or you may end up a charred spot on the ground.. What your playing with if you knew a bit more could easily power your home and no one would notice....

Have you tried coils tuned to 60 hz?

But could you run anything on that?

Nonsense !