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Old 01-05-2014, 07:28 AM   #1
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Anyone hear about this technology?

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-wdc110713.php
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Old 01-05-2014, 08:40 AM   #2
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This idea isn't exactly new,,,,take a look at some of the old "Tesla" patent's ,,,,people have been trying to duplicate his work for years.
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I seem to recall a SciFi book by Robert Heinlein in the 50's that talks about microwave beaming of power from an in-orbit solar-microwave power station.
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Well there needs to be a lot of micro wave floating around to produce 7+ volts what's a cell phone 300 mw? receive side maybe .18 microvolts? Just find out where the cops are running a speed trap and charge your cell phone back up.
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So I can charge my Kindle with the microwave radiation the NSA has been blasting my house with?

Hmmm.
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Gives new meaning to the tin foil hat crew
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So I can charge my Kindle with the microwave radiation the NSA has been blasting my house with?
Ah, no, Wade. No Such Agency doesn't transmit. No Such Agency listens.
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I have been reading about it in both Science Fiction and Science Fact for some time.. As someone said up thread Tesla first purposed a wireless power transmission system.

For low power needs, given the amount of electronic pollution we are exposed to.. It can work quite well.
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