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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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| 542730 | 2007-04-22 12:49:00 | Just one flaw...It would have to have line of sight. That would severely restrict it's use. Great idea though. No it doesnt actually need LOS anymore. I cant see the Sky Tower and I still have woosh, no antenna. |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 542731 | 2007-04-22 16:00:00 | Graham: 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 . Yeah, but that test also got the Hairdressers' Union all up in arms too . . . it seems the people and animals directly in line with the "transmission" of electricity received a free Afro Hair-do from the experiment . The effects on humans and even non-sentient animals is not well known . . . but children with multiple spare appendages are being born from parents who practiced unprotected sex under electric transmission powerlines and now are popping out (oops) in maternity wards around the world . Placing one's feet perpendicular or at right angles to the flow of electricity in NZ's "one-wire" system might not be a problem; but depending upon the length of one's stride, I can imagine that the eddy currents can get quite high if your feet are placed in series or in alignment with the flow . Did I mention self-induced birth-control that way? Do I smell a business opportunity here? Quick, rent me a small office, on the ground floor preferably near to the generating station . Where's my passport? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 542732 | 2007-04-22 19:38:00 | Many years ago a 1 mile long underground superconducting transmission line was built as an experiment . Amazingly successful . It could handle phenominal amounts power with NO measurable losses No need for the super voltages used in normal transmission lines making underground quite practical and the saving in losses easily paid for the cyrogenic plant . It seemed to have everything going for it . Since than NOTHING I wonder what happend |
Tony.br (4018) | ||
| 542733 | 2007-04-22 21:09:00 | Many years ago a 1 mile long underground superconducting transmission line was built as an experiment. Amazingly successful. It could handle phenominal amounts power with NO measurable losses No need for the super voltages used in normal transmission lines making underground quite practical and the saving in losses easily paid for the cyrogenic plant. It seemed to have everything going for it. Since than NOTHING I wonder what happend Once sufficient shares had been sold, the founders slipped swiftly away ? I don't know of this project, but this is pretty common with "miraculous technical breakthroughs". Perhaps an amazingly effective insulator was needed to avoid local ice-age effects. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 542734 | 2007-04-22 21:15:00 | Once sufficient shares had been sold, the founders slipped swiftly away ? I don't know of this project, but this is pretty common with "miraculous technical breakthroughs" . Perhaps an amazingly effective insulator was needed to avoid local ice-age effects . More likely bought out by a company that makes traditional power reticulation systems, in much the same way that radical automotive fuel ideas tend to be bought out by competing petrochemical company's and the likes . . . . :yuck: Just a guess . . . . . . . Go on someone, prove me wrong! :thumbs: |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 542735 | 2007-04-22 21:31:00 | Maybe they took the seed money , went to Roswell, New Mexico, got their ship out of storage in Hanger 18, and went home. | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 542736 | 2007-04-23 05:42:00 | 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] Aah, yes . That's house wiring, not the national grid, there are no neutral wires from the switchyards back to the generating stations . I did mention the path back to the generating station didn't I? :rolleyes: Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 542737 | 2007-04-23 05:48:00 | Aah, yes . That's house wiring, not the national grid, there are no neutral wires from the switchyards back to the generating stations . I did mention the path back to the generating station didn't I? :rolleyes: Cheers Billy 8-{) True, but even there the configuration is delta as opposed to star and the power still does not return through the earth . |
decibel (11645) | ||
| 542738 | 2007-04-23 06:53:00 | Many years ago a 1 mile long underground superconducting transmission line was built as an experiment. Amazingly successful. It could handle phenominal amounts power with NO measurable losses No need for the super voltages used in normal transmission lines making underground quite practical and the saving in losses easily paid for the cyrogenic plant. It seemed to have everything going for it. Since than NOTHING I wonder what happend A New Zealand research team is working on it, to try and get it to a commmercially viable state. http://www.macdiarmid.ac.nz/ There are also commercial applications at the moment with high-temperature superconductors being used for Japanese "Maglev" trains - used for the electromagnets. A NZ firm which has partnered with American Superconductors to work on this project. www.hts-110.com |
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