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Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering professor Manos Tentzeris holds a sensor (left) and an ultra-broadband spiral antenna for wearable energy-scavenging applications. Both were printed on paper using inkjet technology. (Credit: Georgia Tech Photo: Gary Meek)

1 posted on 07/08/2011 1:09:37 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
It ain't free.

It puts a load on the grid, just as if it were actually plugged in.

48 posted on 07/08/2011 2:17:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." - Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins)
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You can bet the ranch that the government will figure out a way to tax this energy before anyone has developed a commercially viable way to exploit it.
Maybe a little junk science to justify the tax and win someone a Nobel Prize, too.


50 posted on 07/08/2011 2:33:15 PM PDT by Mobties (Reduce the government footprint! Let the markets work!)
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Yea great, but can it do this?
53 posted on 07/08/2011 3:09:08 PM PDT by mc5cents (Noli nothis permittere te terere)
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