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Wireless device converts 'lost' energy into electric power [Galt's Motor?}
Phys.Org ^ | 11-07-2013 | Provided by Duke University

Posted on 11/08/2013 10:12:29 AM PST by Red Badger

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This five-cell metamaterial array developed at Duke University has a power-harvesting efficiency of 36.8 percen -- comparable to a solar cell. Credit: Duke University

1 posted on 11/08/2013 10:12:29 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: ShadowAce

Ping!.............


2 posted on 11/08/2013 10:12:45 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: Publius; Billthedrill

Galt ping!


3 posted on 11/08/2013 10:14:50 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Red Badger; SunkenCiv
Thanks, for the Post.
Science PING!

4 posted on 11/08/2013 10:16:28 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: Red Badger

Cool.


5 posted on 11/08/2013 10:17:44 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Red Badger

Very cool. I also wonder if you ‘turned up the heat’ if this could somehow be used to be a EM dampener for avoiding detection.


6 posted on 11/08/2013 10:18:41 AM PST by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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To: Red Badger
They used a series of five fiberglass and copper energy conductors wired together on a circuit board to convert microwaves into 7.3V of electrical energy.

That's nice.

How many watts?

7 posted on 11/08/2013 10:21:45 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Free Vulcan

I was thinking it could be used to power bugs - listening devices - anywhere the CIA or whoever would want to use them..............


8 posted on 11/08/2013 10:23:31 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: DuncanWaring

With today’s microelectronics, one must think in terms of microwatts...............


9 posted on 11/08/2013 10:24:39 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: DuncanWaring

Thanks, good point.

You can have all the volts in the world and they won’t power a cell phone without some amps.


10 posted on 11/08/2013 10:25:39 AM PST by garyb
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To: Red Badger

But can you charge an RV battery with it?


11 posted on 11/08/2013 10:25:57 AM PST by cicero2k
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To: Red Badger

The universe is Avery energetic place. Harvest the energy of the Big Bang?


12 posted on 11/08/2013 10:28:02 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: Red Badger

Incremental improvement, not news.

....for more, Google “rectenna”


13 posted on 11/08/2013 10:28:12 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Still Thinking; Publius; Billthedrill
wouldn't N. Tesla's work the same?

14 posted on 11/08/2013 10:31:26 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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15 posted on 11/08/2013 10:33:40 AM PST by EEGator
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To: bigbob

Incremental is right. This might have some limited uses but it is nothing like solar panels that capture the energy of the sun that is out out for free. There is no large free source of microwaves to harvest for serious electricity generation.. But I could see this possibly recharging a cell phone ...somewhat


16 posted on 11/08/2013 10:35:10 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: cicero2k
But can you charge an RV battery with it?

If you drive around areas with lots of WiFi hotspots maybe.

17 posted on 11/08/2013 10:35:57 AM PST by doorgunner69
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To: Red Badger

Hmmmm..I could bake a potato in my microwave and recharge my cell phone at the same time.


18 posted on 11/08/2013 10:37:21 AM PST by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: dennisw

I’ve found that most PR hype out of universities corresponds with getting the alumni all fired-up for a big fund-raising campaign.


19 posted on 11/08/2013 10:43:44 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Red Badger
I was thinking it could be used to power bugs - listening devices - anywhere the CIA or whoever would want to use them..............

Indeed. Back in the day, I'm sure the KGB would have found this invention useful. They probably could have reduced their energizing beam power substantially.


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20 posted on 11/08/2013 10:49:54 AM PST by cynwoody
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