I have a bad feeling about this.
One thing I've always thought of is when science discovers an alternative way around time/space, which I believe they see glimpses of all the time, that will be most exciting!
How does light know when to act like a particle or wave?
Tort lawyers are going to love this.
Don’t leave your floppy disks in the line of fire.
Thanks for posting.
A friend of mine, a retired nuclear engineer, and I have talked about this for years. He said the technology to do this has been around decades ago and wondered why it was never done. He spoke about wireless power to other continents and how easy it would be to do it. I have to get him to sign up so he can give all the background and process.
They don’t say what the coil on the left is using in wattage. What is the efficiency of transfer and aren’t the waves of energy created by the sending coil that are not being used simply being wasted?
I work for a rural electric coop. I’m retiring in a couple years. Just in time for sticks and wires to be obsolete? Great.
I suggest reading an Edger Rice Burroughs novel about how on Mars even aircraft flew with wireless radio beamed power for the electric motors.
This would be the largest technological achievement of the century if we could eventually power through the air for an electric car.
All autos in a city can run off of power cell sites, at the very least this could possibly end all these fruitless wars over oil control.
What a fantastic future we have!
Imagine where almost nothing gets plugged in anymore and your portable devices charge everywhere you go (inside your car, inside any building, etc.)
Just wait until someone figures out that this will cause cancer...
AWESOME.
Have you seen the cost of copper lately? If this is marketable, it will change the entire electrical contracting industry!
So what stops me from stealing someonelses electricity?
Standing in a room with the air around me electrified?!
I’ll pass.
Look. All radio and TV transmitters transmit electrical energy. A radio or TV receiver’s antenna receives a small amount of that power. The radio or TV selects a specific frequency and amplifies the power to produce an audible signal.
The principle of transmitting power through the air is not new, not far out. It is valid.
Problems:
The power received drops as the cube of the distance from the transmitter.
It is an inefficient method of sending power from one place to another.
If the transmitter power is increased, anyone who gets in the way of the signal will be roasted. This is nothing new. If you climb up a TV transmitter tower you may be roasted.
Here’s a practical application that can be used now:
Set up a receiver near a radio or TV tower and steal some of the power that is transmitted. There will be no detriment to the signal received by everyone else and you will get free power. But don’t get close or you will get roasted.
....doesn’t sound too healthy to me. Not sure I want to be constantly be zapped with enough voltage to light a light bulb.
It’s kind of a pathetic commentary on the state of engineering education at MIT (and the US in general)when they trumpet a high school science fair project as a major advance in technology. Telsa’s experiments in the 30’s proof just how ridiculous this story is as well as illustrating the gullibility of and lack of basic scientific knowledge in the MSM.
There’s already a commercial venture doing this. I believe they were at CES earlier ths year: http://www.ecoupled.com/