A Solution to the RWP for Exam 1 – Stealing Power (2006)

There are groups looking to do this with low orbit drones and Cu wire. Steal from the core!

A major missing detail is accounting for the other phase conductors in the transmission line. They will tend to cancel the field, and the ability of this scheme to work will depend on getting the coil to collect much more flux from one phase than the other two.

Real devices based on this principle exist: current transformers, Rogowski coils, and lights! The latter looks like this:

https://pr-tech.com/product/spanlite-self-illuminated-marker...

And, hilariously, the FAQ informs us that the light contains a “flux capacitor”.

> the payback period would be at least 1000 years

Now I wonder if you could take advantage of the increase in copper price over the time, you might come out ahead

Is it wrong that part of me wanted this to be a true story (assuming it involved eminent domain)?

This was discussed in the squatting community I was in, London, 1984. The coil approach would get you lighting. I never had to do it, we had power.

We argued about the wisdom of theft, when the electricity company would actually re-connect you to an illegally occupied house anyway.

Why compound your problems with the law?