[Published in Fortean Times, no. 317, September 2014, p. 70.]
Electric bridge
Andy Duncan could have had success in his experiment with seeing a
light bulb glow under high voltage power lines had he used a
fluorescent tube rather than an incandescent bulb. Richard Box set up
a giant array of fluorescent tubes in 2004, "Field," as an art project
in Tormarton, South Gloucestershire: https://vimeo.com/11137816
and https://hackaday.com/2009/04/10/field-a-fluorescent-array-wirelessly-powered/
Jim Lippard
Phoenix, Arizona