Nothing like a good moot.
Seriously, I dunno the health implications of having such a system. Thats alot of energy flying around.
To: FLOutdoorsman
2 posted on
11/27/2006 6:04:52 AM PST by
Buck W.
(If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)
To: FLOutdoorsman
4 posted on
11/27/2006 6:07:07 AM PST by
prisoner6
(Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the Left fall out.)
To: FLOutdoorsman
Considering probably 90% of the energy sent out by the system will just float up into the ozone, I wonder if they will earn the "Energy Star" label?
5 posted on
11/27/2006 6:08:22 AM PST by
djf
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To: FLOutdoorsman
Nothing like a good moot. Seriously, I dunno the health implications of having such a system. Thats alot of energy flying around.
There is also the uncomfortable reality that even with today's high copper prices, wires are dirt cheap and nearly 100% efficient.
6 posted on
11/27/2006 6:08:52 AM PST by
Gorzaloon
("Illegal Immigrant": The Larval form of A Democrat.)
To: FLOutdoorsman
My suspicion is that this will never be workable with a consumer product like a laptop. Maybe they can use it to power things like lunar rovers, etc., but if you can use the sun anyway, I'm not sure what the advantage is.
7 posted on
11/27/2006 6:09:16 AM PST by
Brilliant
To: FLOutdoorsman
The problems are efficiency of the transfer, i.e. how much power is simply lost in the transmission, and the safety concerns with beaming that amnount of power around. You don't want people to feel like they're in a microwave oven.
9 posted on
11/27/2006 6:15:11 AM PST by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: Give therapeutic violence a chance!)
To: FLOutdoorsman
They say the challenge is finding a 'magic' frequency that does not also affect living organisms and thus pose possible health risks. Hey, piece of cake.
To: FLOutdoorsman
the transfer of light energy from the Sun..involve relatively low levels of energy Well....OK then.
13 posted on
11/27/2006 6:19:12 AM PST by
laotzu
To: FLOutdoorsman
No fair. The original inventor of the cordless extension cord was Stephen Wright.
14 posted on
11/27/2006 6:21:01 AM PST by
Petronski
(I just love that woman.)
To: FLOutdoorsman
They already have them:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/wec.shtml
15 posted on
11/27/2006 6:22:44 AM PST by
KillTime
(Democracies that can't distinguish between good and evil or deny any difference shall surely perish.)
To: FLOutdoorsman
He's using the non-electromagnetic part of the electromagnetic spectrum. :)
Non-radiative my tail. But, this could be due to bad reporting. This may be using a capacitance field approach that transfers data and thus energy via the surface capacitance of objects. A network technology was based on this.. Auranet, which played on the name of the shimmer surrounding people viewed in the morning light.
However, I still don't know what the effects of trying to transfer alot of energy via this would be.
I know it can be done. Did something like this for High School Science project.
17 posted on
11/27/2006 6:24:30 AM PST by
dalight
To: FLOutdoorsman
I've been reading science fiction for years and a lot of those stories had wireless power transmission. And in a fictional world you can ignore inconvenient realities, like for example the Inverse Square Law. But I guess if you can get around that, the "magical" frequency would be a good thing to have.
23 posted on
11/27/2006 6:31:55 AM PST by
WildBill2275
(The Second Amendment guarantees all of your other rights.)
To: FLOutdoorsman
My First Law of Electromagnetics: If it's new, it will ALWAYS adversely affect the ham radio bands.
25 posted on
11/27/2006 6:38:50 AM PST by
Thrownatbirth
(.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
To: FLOutdoorsman
Instead of using traditional radiation, he wants to use the part of the electromagnetic field that is 'non-radiative'. Will some physist out there explain untraditional, non-radiative radiation to me? Also how energy can be transmitted without being "radiated"?
29 posted on
11/27/2006 7:00:23 AM PST by
LexBaird
(98% satisfaction guaranteed. There's just no pleasing some people.)
To: FLOutdoorsman
In other news; Tumors of the brain have shown a sharp increase in recent years. Medical experts have no explanation.
To: FLOutdoorsman
Broadcast power seems inherently terribly inefficient. Only a tiny portion of the power broadcast could be used. Most would radiate into space that contains no receiver.
34 posted on
11/27/2006 7:50:39 AM PST by
arthurus
(Better to fight them over THERE than over HERE)
To: FLOutdoorsman
36 posted on
11/27/2006 9:07:48 AM PST by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
39 posted on
01/06/2007 12:42:02 AM PST by
SunkenCiv
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40 posted on
07/24/2007 10:13:10 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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it’s a waste! inverse square law and all that!
41 posted on
07/24/2007 10:19:45 PM PDT by
Fitzcarraldo
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