[Outland]

Another one of those waste-of-bandwidth “gee-wiz” articles loaded with a lot of “maybes”, “mights”, “could-be’s” and “estimates” that everyone will forget about in ten years because nothing came from it.

I'm scratching my head trying to think of anything that uses an antenna where the energy from that antenna doesn't need to be AMPLIFIED before that enegry is useable. That means that extra energy must be used.

[junkman72]

limited knowledge of electronics, eh? Research, THEN criticize. This looks very promising.

[Blood of Tyrants]

You apparently haven’t thought very far because if you did you would know that an antenna does nothing but convert electromagnetic energy to electrical. The bigger the antenna, the bigger the voltage to the conductor. They use arrays of radio dish antennas to search the galaxy because more antennas means more voltage And when you link MILLIONS of antennas together, you get a much larger voltage.

[ichabod1]

Dude, most research winds up on the shelf. It’s very frustrating for researchers. But every little bit of original research is like a piece of a puzzle. If every bit of research had to pan out then research would not be done and break throughs would never be made.