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)
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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)
To: Red Badger
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!)
To: Red Badger
53 posted on
07/08/2011 3:09:08 PM PDT by
mc5cents
(Noli nothis permittere te terere)
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