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Posted this last week to no acclaim lol http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/30/freevolt-free-energy/
These other submissions were more lucky.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10308708 (7 points, 8 days ago, 6 comments )

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10323565 (2 points, 5 days ago, 7 comments) (more interesting comments)

Very short version of the comments: They claim that they can harvest ~30µW, this is very little. For example, it can only blink a led a few times per minute, because a normal led use 30mW=30000µW. Read the complete comments for more details.

Tesla had wireless power transmission working over a century ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power#Tesla.27s_exper...

"At his Colorado Springs laboratory during 1899–1900, by using voltages of the order of 10 megavolts generated by an enormous coil, he was able to light three incandescent lamps at a distance of about one hundred feet."

I am guessing this will be a reality about the same time as the clean fusion reactors come online....