I posted this in another forum and thought you might find this interesting
The Question:

What really happens is that the battery forms a "dipole" which nudges the local environment into an unbalanced state which pours out energy in every direction, and some of that energy from the environment flows around the circuit attached to the battery. The energy does NOT come from the battery."

My answer: From the some of greatest minds I know of Tesla and Moray.

Dr Nikola Tesla said over 60 years ago: "Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point if the universe… throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic? If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic --- and this we know it is, for certain --- then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

Enough energy is coming to the earth to light over 1.5 million (1,693,600) 100-watt lamps for every human being on the earth today.

The process of electrifying a conductor is, therefore, the storing of energy in some way in or around the conductor in some medium. The work is spent in altering the state of the medium, and when the particle is discharged, the medium returns to its original state, and the store of energy is disengaged.

The work in producing the electrification of a conductor is spent on the medium and stored there, probably as energy of motion. To denote this we shall say that the medium around the conductor is polarized, this word being employed to denote that its state or some of its properties have been altered in some manner and to a certain extent depending on the intensity of the charge.

When a resilient substance is subjected to strain and then set free, one of two things may happen. The substance may slowly recover from the strain and gradually attain its natural state, or the elastic recoil may carry it past its position of equilibrium and cause it to execute a series of oscillations.

Considering oscillations from a mechanical, electrical and mathematical point of view, we find that electrical resistance is the same as mechanical friction and current is comparable to mechanical velocity. Inertia and inductance may then be considered analogous terms.

In the vibrational forces of the universe, we find the key to the source of all energy.

Energy has a definite elastic or resilient rigidity and density, which is subject to displacement and strain. When strain is removed, the medium will spring back to its old position and beyond, surging back and forth, and will continue to oscillate until the original pressure is used up. If the internal impedance is too great, there will be no oscillations, but it will merely slide back in a dead beat to its unrestrained state.

In the universe we see the same laws being obeyed as in our laboratories. As one traces down to the almost infinitesimal constituents of the atom, one finds that matter does not exist at all as the realistic substance which we have supposed it to be. There at the very foundation, it consists of nothing more than energy charges emitted at various wavelengths or frequencies. It is becoming more and more certain that the apparent complexity of nature is due to our lack of knowledge. And, as the picture unfolds, it promises a marvelous simplicity.

It has been agreed that all forms of matter are vibrating at a particular rate of frequency. And, so it is with the various forms of energy ---heat and light, magnetism and electricity. These are but forms of vibratory motion connected with and being generated from the same source, the universe.

There can be no generation of electrical current and no kinetic energy if there is no disturbance of equilibrium, i.e., change of potential or change of energy levels.

When a vibration of any kind strikes a boundary between two media of different vibratory impedances at an angle of less than 90 degrees, a transformation of the vibratory rate may be changed into another vibratory rate.

To put this in "scientific" terms I believe a dipole (a polarized state) a stressed condition alters the frequency of oscillation in matter. This frequency shift effects the space surrounding the dipole---this space is filled with radiant energy, that is radiations covering an infinite range of wave periods (frequency spectrums). The conditions (energy level) of the dipole would determine the extent and properties of the interaction with the energy present in the space surrounding the dipole, action/reaction. When we speak of energy we are speaking of motion and this motion is oscillitory in nature--vibration of matter or space in the form of radiation-wave period. Therefore what we call magnetic and electric fields are not something in themselves they are a condition of something--the space surrounding a dipole, the condition being a change in the rate of oscillation of radiation in this space producing observable and measurable effects. It is interesting to note that both magnetic and electric fields follow the inverse square law. To deny that effects in matter cannot effect the space surrounding matter is to deny both the conservation of energy and action/reaction, the very foundation of science. To say there is no energy in the space surrounding matter is to say energy as radiation cannot exist thus cannot propagate through space. It is the ultimate paradox, to put it simply the energy to form a dipole changes the conditions of the space surrounding the dipole, this change in condition is a change in the rate of oscillation of energy already present surrounding the dipole, if this change in the rate of oscillation (energy) propagates following the inverse square law how can all of the energy be in a circuit? We are speaking of energy as oscillations changing frequency relative to it's distance to the source dipole, as it changes frequency it changes state---back to its original form---radiation. In this case the energy present in any given magnetic or electric field would be many times greater than we have assumed. If the field surrounding a dipole is a gradual transition of rate of oscillation from magnetic or electric nearest the dipole to ambient radiation farthest from the dipole we could be speaking of a very broad frequency spectrums covering very large areas.

Howdy Y'all,

I am going to use a pressure analogy here.  If you try and create a bubble of pressure in the atmosphere the lower pressure atmosphere will "pull" the pressure outward and dissipate it.  Conversely if you try to make a bubble of vacuum in the atmosphere the higher pressure atmosphere will "push" inward and fill the vacuum.  The localized disturbance of the atmospheric pressure is swiftly normalized by the infinitely larger atmosphere outside the localized disturbance.  In this case we are pushing and pulling air.  A radio transmitter make similar pressure changes on the aether, pushing and pulling the aethers.

It is not that the transmitter is pumping the aethers in the atmosphere it is the atmosphere compensating for the localized disturbance in the aethers because of the transmitter...

OK, That was weird...

Blessed Be...