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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.)

"Also how energy can be transmitted without being "radiated"?"

Carrier wave.

32 posted on 11/27/2006 7:23:06 AM PST by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)

I'm an electrical engineer, not a physicist, but if it's not radiation then it's conduction. It is possible to have a fairly well directed EM field, but if it's not tightly directed then it is bathing the area in EM fields - even if it's the "non-radiative" kind, and even if the bodies or other devices in the field are not the intended energy sink. Controlling all that - avoiding unintended consequences - without a tightly directed field would be big problem.
I guess that there really is one other alternative to conduction or radiation, analogous to thermal convection, and that would be an electron beam. Any takers for that in their home?

35 posted on 11/27/2006 7:58:20 AM PST by Nevermore

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