Military Uses 'Bat-Hook' To Tap Power From Lines

Zothecula writes "As soldiers are fitted out with more and more electrical sytems to extend their capabilities, they become increasingly dependent on the power needed to run them. Since soldiers in the field don't always have ready access to an electrical outlet when they need to top up the batteries, the US Air Force has developed a device that taps directly into the electricity flowing through overhead power lines ... a kind of bat-hook for real-life superheroes."

Comments

Re:Now..

[Skal Tura]

then say a transformer and not inverter.

Sorry, but you just can't talk bs and come back with "well i was meaning that". It would be like you saying "Every human should be killed" and then saying you meant "Every human should be apple fanboys". sentences not necessarily in that order.

Talk what you mean, not trash. (and what if all science would be written in your style of saying complete bollocks first?)

Re:Prior art?

[Khyber]

Right, you don't work at a coal-fired steam power plant which is incapable of suddenly dropping power output, and which directly powers a small town. You probably work at a distributed power station, where you DO have the option of control. Congratulations on being part of 8% of the globe. Now get your head out of that narrow little world and see that just because you have it doesn't mean everyone else does.

You, sir, are an assumptive and naive ass.