Paul Burridge wrote in message . ..
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 19:37:28 -0500, **THE-RFI-EMI-GUY**
wrote:

Paul; You could drive ground rods into opposite corners of your property
and extract some of the power from the earth and run your house for
nothing at all! In fact If you dig a deep enough trench in the middle,
you could isolate the ground and get a bigger return current!

Well, I don't see how that could work, but I had considered digging a
trench around my boundary and thereby cutting off the return path for
the other users' behind my house and demanding payment from the power
co. to re-instate it. But then it's obvious the return current's only
going to go deeper underground or around my property. It seems there's
nothing I can do to make any dough out of this. :-(

Not sure, but somehwere it has to be stated that electric company MUST
provide an escape route for electrons they supllied to customers,
otherwise they will blow up your house in an eyeblink (assume you try
to steal their electrons). That's the only reason for the bill.