Pylon Ambient Energy Lights Fluorescent Bulbs
Hundreds in UK flock each night to see artistic
display of 1300 fluorescent bulbs lit by overhead high-power
lines. Lights ebb as a person walks near them. Tubes give a
shock when held while jumping off the ground.
logo image from RichardBox.com
by Sterling
D. Allan, with Andy Pears
March 6, 2004
Pure Energy Systems News Service
BATH, UK
Hundreds of people are flocking each night for a close-up look at Richard
Box' artistic display of 1301 fluorescent bulbs that are lit by the
overhead high-power lines -- just from the ambient energy surrounding the
lines.
The display, called "Field," which opened on Feb. 15 and has
been extended to March 6, is situated near freeway M4 in Bath, England,
where passersby can view the spectacle.
photo from RichardBox.com
Box is the Artist in Resident of the Department of Physics at the
University of Bristol, which is famous for its pioneering work on the
effects of magnetic and electrical fields on human health.
Denis Henshaw, professor of human radiation effects, has praised Box's
work in its effectiveness in illustrating in a method the lay person can
relate to, the fields that emanate from high-power lines.
"The result has surpassed all my expectations," said Box, of the
extent to which the power loss along over-head power lines is demonstrated
by the display he assembled.
This story broke on the same day Pure Energy Systems News published
a story about how some technologies that were thought to be extracting
energy from aether -- the "vast sea of energy that surrounds us"
-- may actually be tapping local high power lines, though a sort of
wireless transformer principle.
http://pureenergysystems.com/news/exclusive/wireless_transformer
Wireless transmission (intentional) and fluorescent bulbs were both
invented by Nikola Tesla.
The fluorescent bulbs of Richard Box's display, "planted" in the
ground to pick up "waste emissions from the overhead power
lines", are in effect acting as wireless transformers as well,
providing a graphic depiction of a phenomenon that could actually shed
additional light on the mode of action of these other energy devices.
Andy Pears, an associate of Pure Energy Systems, recently visited Box's Field
display with an electronics engineer friend of his, joining a throne of
around 600 people who mingled for about two hours.
He reports that "during the show, we soon discovered that if people
link hands, hold onto a tube and collectively jump, everyone gets quite a
big electric shock."
The effect is not as dramatic for just one person, but can still be felt.
"People act as aerials collecting the radiation. The more
people that hold hands the greater the amplification of the radiated
voltage is."
He said the tube glow brighter while the person or people are off the
ground.
The most number of people he saw do this at once that night was six.
Pears also described another phenomenon. "As you walk up to the
tubes, which are buried in the ground by about 6 inches, the tubes go
out. When you move away they light up again. This is because
your body is a better conductor of the electromagnetic radiation than the
air is, so your body shorts out this potential to the ground."
He believes that this phenomenon is related to the shock phenomenon.
"When holding the tube, when you jump, the flow is then routed
through the tube far easier as your body is a better conductor than
the air. Like magic, the tube will be lit more brightly than on its
own. An electric shock is the penalty for doing this."
Pears says, "There was an eerie feel to the night, the tubes seemed
to take on a life of there own. The tubes were constantly flickering
between various states of excitation due to the fluctuation of field
strengths being affected by the onlookers."
Box says, "There's sound as well as light - a crackling that
corresponds to the flashing of the lights. There's a certain smell too,
and your hair stands slightly on end."
Though the shows are at night, when the effect can be seen best, the
fluorescent tubes are lit continuously, depending on the whether
conditions. The dryer the air, the more the tubes act to collect the
ambient energy. Humid air acts as a conductor to ground, tending to
bypass the tubes.
The tubes are carefully arranged in triangular/hexagonal shape such that
they are 1 meter from one another. New tubes perform differently
from old tubes. Pears was asking Box how so, when he had to run off
to stop someone who was breaking some tubes. Box is replacing about
10 bulbs a day during the display.
Ken Rauen, Science Advisor for Pure Energy Systems, says there is "no
new physics here, just a new twist for common folk. It is no more bizarre
than dropping a permanent magnet down a copper pipe and watching it float
down like a down feather in still air."
He says "It is an old trick to take fluorescent bulbs near a radio
tower and light them by holding them vertically in one hand. Hold them
horizontally and they don't work. The reason is that the vertical electric
field being radiated by the radio tower is high enough to produce 100
Volts per meter or more, which is about 100 Volts across a long tube, so
it lights up. The electric field near high voltage, high power
transmission lines must be as strong, though only at 60 Hz instead of
megahertz."
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