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I don't want to be sterile :/]]>Nov 15th 2006 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/
Bring on the waves, electromagnetic or otherwise!
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Yes wireless power is a cool idea, and I am sure in 20 years that we won't have cords, but start getting a technology we can use today for us gadget freaks so we can get rid of a few wires.]]>Nov 15th 2006 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/
http://www.splashpower.com/]]>Nov 15th 2006 8:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.splashpower.com/
They produce something not entirely different to what you have described except it doesn't require any contact points (it's based on inductive pickup) so no need to worry about moisture or skin contact.]]>Nov 15th 2006 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/
The problem is with the power level. Enough to power anything larger than a mouse, keyboard or toothbrush is alright, anything more interferes with other electrical equipment. Enough to power a laptop would likely mess up even shielded equipment, including said laptop.]]>Nov 15th 2006 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/Nov 15th 2006 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/Nov 15th 2006 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_induction
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There's nothing fundamentally different about electricity that should make it free. Electrical current is merely a way to transfer energy. You are paying for a company to generate the energy so you don't have to power your devices yourself. In this way paying for electricity is no different from, say, paying for a farmhand to grind your grains. Sure, you can do the job yourself or build a windmill to do it, but these means are not always feasible and that's why you hire someone else to do it. The same reasoning applies to electricity. You could handcrank your radio or build a windfarm or solarfarm, but most people pay the electrical company out of convenience. The only difference is electrical energy can be transferred cheaply over long distances.]]>Nov 15th 2006 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/Nov 15th 2006 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/Nov 15th 2006 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/Nov 15th 2006 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/
But it can even be dangerous instantaneously, if you approach an emissive RF inductive coil while having a closed conducting circuit on you, for example a metalic ring. The ring can heat very quickly (think about induction hob in kitchens cooktop, which rely basically on the same basis) and it can cut your finger like a lightsaber before you notice, if powerful enough. Some married scientists has already been hurt in such a way while working on big induction coils in their labs.]]>Nov 15th 2006 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/Nov 15th 2006 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/Nov 15th 2006 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/Nov 15th 2006 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/
All I out of that was "light saber", and that said, I'm ready to embrace this technology 110%

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I think I have a new hero.]]>Nov 15th 2006 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/
Keep working, MIT. Until then, we'll just have to fake things with wires.]]>Nov 15th 2006 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/Nov 15th 2006 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/Nov 15th 2006 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/
"Batteries not included"

www.steorn.com - for the half of the world that still doesn't know.]]>Nov 15th 2006 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/Nov 15th 2006 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/
Interestingly, Tesla allegedly worked on a 'death ray' that, when tested, overshot it's artic target and was the cause of the Tunguska explosion in Siberia in 1908. Often credited to a meteorite airburst, some paranormalists credit this to Tesla's death ray. Tesla supposedly read about the explosion in the newspaper and dismantled the device immediately.

Pretty cool story. I like paranormal stuff so, until proven otherwise, this is what i will believe. Go see The Prestige for some awesome David-Bowie-as-Tesla action and a darn good flick, too.]]>Nov 15th 2006 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/
Bullets and missles have ballistic trajectories, not rays.
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1) Pace makers and much of modern electronics is not gonna love this stuff.

2) Widespread wireless power gives people the ability to build extremely small incendiary devices you could plant anywhere.

3) Every person who ever gets cancer anywhere (or chronic fatigue or RSD ro Fibromyalgia) is gonna blame your power source on it.]]>Nov 15th 2006 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/
http://www.netsense.net/tesla/

Epic Biopic Demo
http://72.21.11.50/dw/tesla.avi

Articles by my Co-Screenwriter:
http://www.teslatech.info/ttmagazine/v4n1/seifer.htm

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.10/tesla.html

http://www.peo.on.ca/publications/DIMENSIONS/JanFeb2006/Profile.pdf
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Bullets and missles have ballistic trajectories, not rays."

noooo, lies! You've never seen the curvy teslat ray of death? Where have you been?]]>Nov 15th 2006 10:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/
But there are a lot of Tesla kooks out there (sadly including Tesla himself, after the Wardenclyffe project tanked and he went into a deep depression for not being able to fund his research any longer), as well, and it's good to have some solid references. Frankly, Tesla is one of those cases where the reality is so endlessly fascinating that one wonders why anyone ever thought it necessary to tack on the weird "death ray" or Philadelphia Experiment stories... the real man was amazing enough, it just seems so superfluous. A gilded lily, as they say.]]>Nov 15th 2006 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/Nov 15th 2006 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.changeeverything.ca]]>Nov 15th 2006 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/Nov 15th 2006 9:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/
Yikes!]]>Nov 16th 2006 6:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/Nov 16th 2006 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/
In the article it discreetly says, "but [Tesla's] most ambitious attempt [Wardenclyffe] failed when he ran out of money."

This is laughable. Science needs money to work. This is false. E!=mc$

Has anyone made any serious attempts to recreate the Wardenclyffe Tower? I would seriously appreciate if anyone has an answer to this.


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Ofcourse alot of companys arent gona like this until they find a way to implment this into there products...

Funny enuff i cant see this going pass light weight devices as your washing machine doesnt exaclty draw the same amount of power as your cell phone...]]>Jun 17th 2007 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mit-makes-case-for-wireless-power/
Last week I watched a video on a Tesla Coil demo in a Science Museum, that explained how the coil converts household current 120 VAC to 120,000 VAC, and 60 Hertz cycles into 120 Hertz...to convert random electrons into radio waves. The most impressive part of the video demo was the young tour guide holding a flourescent bulb, which lit up outside the glass enclosure, while he was holding the light bulb! That short video taught me more than I had learned by reading about TesLA, and that is why we use videos to teach students through free education sites like www.greenenergytv.com

Stop by and share a video and your comments.]]>Oct 16th 2007 9:24AM