Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #02220
To: beam beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Richard Piotter richfile@rconnect.com
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 12:49:52 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: wind and other sources of power (radio Waves)
> I was thinking that there might be some way to harness the power in
> radio waves? if you think about it all it is is a really high pitch
> sound. pehaps the frequency it too high to be usefull tho.
Radio Waves are definitely not _just_ high pitch sound. They are
electrical fields generated by charging an antenna. High pitch sound can
not travel far. It loses it's kinnettic energy too quickly cause of the
short wavelenth. Low pitch sound can travel for miles however due to the
large wavelenth and kinetic energy. Neither however, are radiowaves. A
radio wave can easily be generated, and can have a large charge. I don't
know how easiy it would be to draw that charge though.
Richard Piotter
richfile@rconnect.com
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