So my parents discussed the problem with the electric company and it was decided to re-wire the incoming power. They brought the power lines from the next pole south on the main line across the road to a pole in the yard and then to a pole between the house and barn, where they placed the transformer. This was a distance of about 260 feet. The local electrician wired a meter at that pole. From there the power ran north about 100 feet to the house and it ran south about 100 feet to the barn. He also installed a new circuit breaker box to replace the old undersized fuse box in the house. During the first week of being on the new wiring something went wrong on one of the circuits. I remember the kitchen light being only half bright and they varied according to how much electricity was being used at the barn. I seems that one of the new connections in the breaker box was not tight.
My Dad found that the electric bill became very small. For some reason the meter would measure less electricity than what my Dad knew was being used. When electricity was used in the barn it seemed to cancel out the electricity used in the house, and visa versa. When the house and the barn used about the same amount of electricity the meter would stall and not turn. My Dad, thinking that the meter was defective or wired wrong contacted both the electric company and the electrician. Both said the wiring was correct. The electric company said the drop in usage was due to better wiring. My Dad knew how much power all the appliances used and knew the usage on the bill was too low.
Now fast forward a few years. My Dad had quit farming due to health reasons and the electric bill went up to near normal. Then my younger brother gets a divorce and moves back home to my parents. He has an electric kiln for making pottery, which he puts in the barn. During months that he used the kiln my parents electric bill would drop almost in half.
Now here comes the possible free energy thought. What if there is some previously unknown effect where wires strung on utility poles in a particular configuration will cause free energy to flow in those wires? Attached is Google satellite picture of the farm. I've added red lines to show the power lines. Note that the wires form a Tee shape that has a slight angle thus it has a slight arrow shape. The base of the Tee is higher voltage. The two arms of the Tee are lower voltage. The transformer is on the pole between the house and barn. Wires run from the transformer, down the pole to the meter then back up the pole. Then they split and run in two directions. The wires going both to the house and to the barn are the older standard separate three wires running parallel with each other and not the newer insulated wires that run bundled together. I'm not sure if there are two wires or three wires running on the higher voltage power lines from across the road, if I had to guess I would say only two wires, a power and a ground.
This is something that has bugged me for years. This relates to a Canadian patent filed on 09/18/1923 and issued on 9/15/1925 Canadian patent number 253765 by Frank Watt Prentice titled "Electrical Power Accumulator". This was one of six Canadian patents by Frank Watt Prentice. It seems that when electric wires were run in a particular fashion and energized with 500 watts of power then nearby electric wires would pick electricity enough to energize 3000 watts of power, thus an increase of about six times.
See for Reference:Frank Watt Prentice in Canadian patent 253765 wrote:In the development of my WIRELESS TRAIN CONTROL SYSTEM for railways, covered in my United States Letters Patent Number 843,550, I discovered that with an antennae consisting of one wire of suitable diameter supported by insulating means three to six inches above the ground and extending one half mile, more or less in length, the said antennae being grounded at one end through a spark gap and energized at the other end by a high frequency generator of 500 watts and having a secondary frequency of 500,000 would produce in said antennae oscillatory frequency the same as that of the earth currents and thus electrical power from the surrounding media was accumulated along the length of the antennae and with a closed oscillatory loop antennae 18 feet in length run parallel with the transmission antennae at a distance of approximately 20 feet it was possible to obtain by tuning the loop antennae, sufficient power to light to full candle a series bank of 50 sixty watt carbon lamps, Lowering or raising of the transmission antennae resulted in a proportionate decrease of power picked up on the receiving antennae and at the 6 feet above the earth no power what-ever was obtainable without a change of potential and frequency.
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Under certain operation requirements I have found it expedient to have the transmission antennae elevated and carried on poles many feet above the earth and in that case a different voltage and frequency was necessary to accumulate earth currents along the transmission antennae 14.
http://patents.ic.gc.ca/cipo/cpd/en/pat ... mmary.html
http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?hl=en&ie ... 3&t=k&z=20
http://home.att.net/~Irby_tree/FWP_Inventions.htm
http://home.att.net/~Irby_tree/Prentice.htm
