Posted on 07/28/2023 10:44:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
You can efficiently break the law harvesting electricity beneath cross-country electrical wires, using a metal roof on a shed…
Outlaw ping!..................
Using this one weird trick?
Until you get caught...................
If true, is a breakthrough with vast implications.
I just plug an extension cord into my neighbor’s outdoor plug.
I think John Galt should sequester this machine.
This doesn’t break the laws of thermodynamics............
If anything breaks a physical law, the law was wrong.
Does the electric utility own the land where those high energy lines and towers lie or do they merely have right-a-ways? How much energy can be scavenged from them by landowners or transient campers? enough to do anything with? I do recall seeing people waving fluorescent light bulb rods while standing under them and seeing them light up somewhat. Related, I presume?
Dumb statement by the writer: Whether we've discovered something or not, Physics either exists or it doesn't. The isn't any physical property or behavior that suddenly appears and starts obeying new rules.
I’m no physicist, duh, but it sounds like thermal radiation is just waste radiation from heat when it is in excess of what can be used and these scientists have managed to figure out how to keep it from being wasted, resulting in a reduction or prevention of thermal radiation. It could be useful for maybe making cars more efficient, if it can be adapted.
It doesn’t sound like they broke any laws to me.
Kind of..................
Which is why the WOKE cultists will never allow it to be used.
Must have "equality".
Especially if the magnetic field can be produced with permanent magnets, rather than electromagnets that require energy.
You mean scientists have reversed engineered some alien tech.
Star Trek really was true science fiction, the old ones. Sure, Kirk shagged his way through the universe and it was entertaining, BUT:
Communicators, i.e. cell and or phones that can communicate from earth to space like Iridium.
Touchscreens, tablets, Flat Panel TVs, Virtual Reality, tractor beams (optical tweezers using lasers really exist today on a microscopic level), AI, speech recognition, lasers, holograms...
You need to realize, something as simple as a self opening door using IR barriers, motion detectors or other means while already invented were not common in 1966 when the show first aired.
Today the old shows seem corny, but it really was true science fiction with Roddenberry doing his homework on what future tech might bring us.
Sadly, what he didn’t foresee is how friggin androgenous we would become in the future, you surely won’t see a LT Ohura showing her legs today anywhere, and half the men out there don’t deserve to have testicles.
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