The end of the plug?

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The end of the plug? Scientists invent wireless device that beams electricity through your home
by DAVID DERBYSHIRE -Daily Mail

Scientists have sounded the death knell for the plug and power lead.

In a breakthrough that sounds like something out of Star Trek, they have discovered a way of 'beaming' power across a room into a light bulb, mobile phone or laptop computer without wires or cables.

In the first successful trial of its kind, the team was able to illuminate a 60-watt light bulb 7ft away.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=460602&in_page_id=1965


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People will demand this, while at the same time show up at a community meeting to decry a utility's plans to expand a substation next to a primary school, for fear of EMF's!
 
Here's the next great idea (you're too late to steal it, because I am already on my way to the patent office :D ): Wrap one of these coils around the big water tower, and supply power to the entire town! :)
 
"If it works and it's safe, it will be one of the greatest achievements ever."
Good luck with the safe part.
 
Minuteman said:
In the first successful trial of its kind, the team was able to illuminate a 60-watt light bulb 7ft away.

Go stand under a high tension wire with a fluorescent tube in your hand and it will light. Lots of emf's there also but who'd want to live under one.
 
After all of the discussions we've had about issues with 3-way travelers not being run with the supply and/or neutral conductors, we're now going to intentionally install strong, focussed electrical fields? :rolleyes:



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"I don't think so, Tim!"
 
Well I thought this was a joke, I was apparently wrong.

I did some more checking and found that the research was done at MIT. I went to MIT's own site and found their side of it.

In my opinion the original link exaggerated the potential a bit, it appears they are thinking of low power items.

"MIT team experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer, potentially useful for powering laptops, cell phones without cords"

Here is the MIT News story with more technical details.

Goodbye wires?
 
They state that a 60 watt light bulb was lit from 7 feet away. Now, my question is, were any of the test team willing to stand between the source and the light bulb?:D
 
iwire said:
Well I thought this was a joke, I was apparently wrong.

I did some more checking and found that the research was done at MIT. I went to MIT's own site and found their side of it.

In my opinion the original link exaggerated the potential a bit, it appears they are thinking of low power items.

"MIT team experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer, potentially useful for powering laptops, cell phones without cords"

Here is the MIT News story with more technical details.

Goodbye wires?

Good post Bob, I also went to the site, and I have no fear that I will be turning my cable in for scrap in the near future.
 
For those that think this is weird... wait, that's everybody. :D

Hey, everybody: According to Popular Mechanics (Dec 2006 issue) the military literally has a "ray gun". Check out the story here.

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It's essentially a microwave on steroids, and they offer assurances that it's merely for inflicting pain (as opposed to death), but it's still smacks of science fiction, much like the original post of this thread.

I can't imagine what will be commonplace in 25 years, much less a 100.
 
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