Beam me to Planet Gore !
Funny ...
The enviro lawyer’s were, just a few years ago, loudly suing the world (and its power companies!) to stop power lines from being built based on alleged electromagnetic frequencies and interferences with homes and cancers.
The enviro lawyers and their media cohorts were also just recently publicizing the dangers and brain cancers coming from the way cell phones use a magnetic field right next to a user’s ear ....
But, when Obama’s energy administration wants to “sell” green hazards to a university’s green market based on a university’s green policies for a university’s green research proposals and green-funded demonstration projects ....
(Regardless of whether those policies will ever be economically viable ....)
The complaints about electric power lines are so mind numbingly ignorant and contrafactual that it makes my teeth hurt. (Power lines store a lot of energy in magnetic fields, far less in electric fields, but radiate insignificant amounts of electromagnetic energy, for instance.) Cell phones use magnetic feilds because effective electric feild antennas would be about a foot long, wouldn’t work inside a car and would have to held upright to work well.
Irony at it's max.
The green crowd will hail this as some sort of breakthrough. I bet it isn't green at all. The efficiency must be terrible compared to hard wired charging circuits.