Creating Plasma Shockwaves Using A Wireless Energy Tower (ft. Geerling Engineering)

Thanks to Jeff and Joe Geerling, I was able to use a 12kW AM radio tower to create a massive plasma speaker, and, I built an RF energy receiver which converts radio signals into usable electricity. It was an incredible time.

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[ricky]

So when my radio station blips and stops transmitting, I know whats happening. Some one is cooking hotdogs.

[GeerlingEngineering]

It was so fun having you out at the tower site! We're still working on our video about the effects on the broadcast and transmitter, but it's great to see all the RF magic going on here!

[davidgekler]

One cold day, here in Southern California(HA) I went with the chief engineer of our AM radio station to the antenna site. We weren't broadcasting. Walking up to the transmitter building we could see a line of something burnt going all the way to the building door, whatever it was, it was totally incinerated. Inside the burnt line continued, all the way to the Transmitter cabinet. Turned out ... ANTS had made a trail from one leg of the tower to the actual transmitter!

[gormauslander]

"Take it from a guy that's seen the remains of a guy that...eugh"

Yeah, that's sufficiently terrifying, will do.

[JeffGeerling]

Any time you're back in St. Louis, we'll do some more Midwestern science experiments! 😂

[HawksHillFarm]

YES PLASMA CHAD! BUILD IT!!! <3 <3 <3

[shubus]

I remember reading a few years ago where some guy in the vicinity of one of these towers setup a massive resonant coil/capacitor circuit to siphon off power from the transmitter. In a nearby town folks were complaining about low signal quality. So of course the guy got caught and to take done his system. Have always wondered exactly how much power he was able to draw.

[Ken]

A 60 Hz arc is actually buzzing at 120 Hz, because both the positive and negative peaks conduct.

[roadkillavenger]

Mud daubers are extremely docile. It's rare to get stung by them. They're a completely different type of wasp than paper wasps.

[Osc-Mod]

When I was in high school we had a Nasa Engineer substitute math for us. He talked about making something similar to your LED circuit. He used these for LED lights in house. (before the led was commercially available. He talked about using the radio waves from the nearby tower to feed the receiver coils he kept on his roof. I never personally put eyes on it but the idea never has left my mind.

[ashercorbett]

YES PLASMA CHAD! BUILD IT!!! <3 <3 <3 19:26

[Ma_X]

I knew one old man who lived near the AM tower in USSR. It was old private "estate". He needed quite an amount of firewood and coal in winter to keep the house warm. He made a huge flat coil of copper wire on a wall and just connected his electric heater to it. It was an old infrared heater with open heating coil. And it worked. Not that stable but for free.

[ers]

9:03 Never thought I’d hear a sausage speak, but here it is.

[timesurfingalien]

I used to build these towers. No am but plenty of FM and television. That took me all over the world.

[krbruner]

I was a radio alignment tech for UHF and VHF two-way radios, such as those used for police and such. One day I was working on a 20 watt handheld and got a little too close to the final (the transistor that drives the power to the antenna). Wow. Now I have been shocked before, a number of times, including from a 30kv neon transformer....and non hurt as much as that RF burn. It honestly felt like taking a glowing hot needle, sticking it into your finger, driving it into the bone. I told my boss, and he said that if I had gotten hit by one of the 100 (or more) watt car-mounted ones, I'd be going home for the day. My finger had this little dark tinge around the spot it happened, for quite some time.

I misspoke on the transformer...I recalled the numbers incorrectly. I remembered 15 and 30 but transposed the value they were attached to. It was a 15Kv 30mA max...I mistakenly remembered 30Kv 15mA. It did make for quite a good Jacob's Ladder. It struggled at first to restrike the arc, but I found an article about what was called a Gabriel's Anode, which is just a high resistance resistor connected to one post, with the other side floating near the other post. The arc strikes from the free leg of the resistor, then the arc reaches to the other leg, avoiding the resistor, then travels up the arms.

[Durang]

Side note, the mode FM does not only work on line of sight. It's the typical FM frequency range (88-108mhz) that is line of sight.

[ojonasar]

I remember back in 89 when I was on a business trip and we visited the Empire State Building on an off day. I kept having weird problems with the video display on my SVHS camcorder and at first thought it was to do with the cold. Later I realised what it was - the radio antennas above me. When I got home, I realised the audio was completely trashed - just radio stations bleeding over each other.

[DallasTaylor]

I'm in Riga Latvia and swear I can feel the ambient energy coursing through the area. Recently, I found an old project where I soldered together 3 batteries in parellel from ecigs/vapes like a ladder with small brass strips on the side and a blue led connected to one of the suction switches instead of the heating element. When I made it it would only come on when I blew on the switch, which was the intention, but after about 2 years I found the blue led glowing and it hasn't stopped. Not a flash. I tried to recreate it without the suction switch and a white led, it's been glowing for a few weeks but dimming and could just be normal discharge.

When I asked the computer about it it was saying the led could be rectifing ambient ac. I think the batteries are acting as coils and collectors from the brass strips, etc. I'd love to host a visit to see if it could be measured, documented, etc.

[justinbanks]

I love how you say, don't touch anything or you'll die. And your response is, looks like I'm in the right place 😂

[RonLaws]

It's worth noting that early Crystal radios lacked any form of amplification circuit, the power to drive the loudspeaker came purely from the energy captured by the antenna.