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The same way an LED is not a solar panel. It will give you some voltage, but basically a rounding error above zero.

Antenna are about capturing energy over macro scale areas. This atom is measuring electromagnetic oscillation at a particular point in space. Technically you can recover a signal, but only a rounding error above the noise floor. It doesn't capture energy.





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