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| Thread ID: 78576 | 2007-04-20 21:52:00 | Wireless Electricity Transmission? | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 542720 | 2007-04-21 01:19:00 | Just one flaw...It would have to have line of sight. That would severely restrict it's use. Great idea though. | pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 542721 | 2007-04-21 03:20:00 | ...there's always mirrors and reflective foreheads.... | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 542722 | 2007-04-21 03:46:00 | ...there's always mirrors and reflective foreheads.... and smoke, plus a fair bit of creative marketing. Is it Vista enabled? |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 542723 | 2007-04-21 03:47:00 | We give thanks to the ancient Greeks, Michael Faraday, Ben Franklin, Volta etc, for electricity, as we have it today. If it was only just being discovered, there would probably be as many people who would regard it in the same light (no pun intended) as nuclear energy. "Wireless Electricity Transmission" sounds exciting, it's only in it's infancy...but who knows what might be developed. Shhhh!! Please don't tell the Electricity Commission just yet. |
Marnie (4574) | ||
| 542724 | 2007-04-21 03:48:00 | ...bet it runs on WinME...hahahahah But, seriously...there is some tech interest with it.... |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 542725 | 2007-04-21 03:50:00 | If it needs lubrication, I have some freshly squeezed snake oil - - - | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 542726 | 2007-04-21 04:31:00 | Joe, you chose the wrong word. Irony was the one you needed. Anyway, I thought you would have known that many people take everything they read on the Internet absolutely seriously. This forum is no exception. They should have noticed that this is like the "Star Wars" anti-missile technology which was guaranteed to work, because all that was needed to make it all work was reliable, fast, software. Unusually, that project was stopped before many millions had been spent because there was an amazing consensus in the software community that the software would not and could not work. Tesla did wireless power transmission many years ago, financed by J P Morgan. He was powering light bulbs many miles away. The power company did make him rewind the generator in the Niagara power station which burned out when he was doing his first full power run. :( |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 542727 | 2007-04-22 11:08:00 | We in NZ are half-way to the wireless dream already. Our power system still needs wires to distribute the power, but the return path back to the generating station for the "used power" has no wires at all. It relies entirely upon the conductivity of the earth. Yes, that's true, no bull. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 542728 | 2007-04-22 11:30:00 | Don't they have an RCD at the power stations, just to protect unwary birds with muddy feet which land on the wires and "earth" them? | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 542729 | 2007-04-22 11:33:00 | We in NZ are half-way to the wireless dream already. Our power system still needs wires to distribute the power, but the return path back to the generating station for the "used power" has no wires at all. It relies entirely upon the conductivity of the earth. Yes, that's true, no bull. Cheers Billy 8-{) Aah, no. In the case of your house, it's called the neutral wire. [though the earth connection at each end may carry fault currents] |
decibel (11645) | ||
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