“Scientists have sounded the death knell for the plug and power lead,” David Derbyshire reports for The Daily Mail.
“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,” Derbyshire reports. “In the first successful trial of its kind, the team was able to illuminate a 60-watt light bulb 7ft away.”
“The team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who call their invention ‘WiTricity’, believe it could change the way we use electricity and do away with the tangle of cables, plugs and chargers that clutter modern homes,” Derbyshire reports. “It could also allow the use of laptops and mobile phones without batteries.”
Lead researcher, Dr. Marin Soljacic, designed a method “to fill a room with a ‘non-radiative’ electromagnetic field,” Derbyshire reports. “Most objects in the room – such as people, desks and carpets – would be unaffected by the electromagnetic field. But any objects designed to resonate with the electromagnetic field would absorb the energy.”
“The scientists say the technique works only over distances of up to 9ft. However, they believe it could be used to charge up a battery within a few yards of the power source connected to a receiving coil,” Derbyshire reports. “Placing one source in each room could provide enough power for an entire house.”
“Professor Peter Fisher, another of the researchers, said: ‘As long as the laptop is in a room equipped with a source of wireless power, it would charge automatically without having to be plugged in. In fact, it would not even need a battery to operate inside such a room.’ The researchers believe there is little to worry about on safety grounds, saying that magnetic fields interact weakly with living organisms and are unlikely to have any serious side effects,” Derbyshire reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
Tesla did this already a long time ago.
So… this works like it did in the movie “Prestige”? (Tesla)
Perfect! I could use it to duplicate myself and my computer a few times… imagine the work I could get done then!!
If Apple could adapt this technology to beam mental energy into my brain, I’d buy some.
Damn! I was just about to unvail my own discovery after recieving my Patent pending application.
It is a wireless device that beams bio gas across the room!
Needless to say it requires that you eat alot of half baked beans!
I’ll put this in my house as soon as I’m old enough to want cancer. I don’t believe a word they say about strong magnetic fields NOT giving me cancer.
BITCHES
All I know is I WANT LEOPARD RIGHT NOW!!!
Sorry, I had to vent….
The idea is a bummer, because of the massive lose of power. On the order of 50% or more.
Which marginally beats traditional electrical transmission loss of 60% or more.
“The researchers believe there is little to worry about on safety grounds, saying that magnetic fields interact weakly with living organisms and are unlikely to have any serious side effects,”
IOW, “microwave”. Nothing like saying things between the lines.
With wording like that, let’s forget electrical transmission altogether and light our homes directly with plutonium rods. They’d never burn out, they’d have a soft natural glow, and besides ambient radiation interacts with living organisms anyway. Yeesh!
M.A.D. –
yeah, actually it is called lightening.
but then, ever wander what lightening REALLY is?
It is not enough that they have killed the Bees by the billions, they now want to kill us off by starting with Children.
Children who are born and spend alot of their lives living close to pylons, or national grid cables have a higher percentage of the likely hood of suffering from Leukemia.
When will they learn? conduct proper research under a controlled environment for a decent period before trailing out the products live to us or the environment.
safety is relative
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Thanks 7over and others who mentioned Tesla, who came up and implemented the idea a way back. If any of you followed the Tesla/Westinghouse/Edison saga you may remember that one thing that freaked out the powers that be at the time was the control factor. When you broadcast electricity like radio waves, anyone can pick it up. That makes it very tough to regulate. Wires, being physical are easily controlled.
Another aspect of Tesla’s electrical system is more sinister. He was using very high frequencies, gigahertz if I remember correctly. These types of frequencies do have a biological effect. You may have heard of incidences of leukemia and other disorders being higher for those living near large electrical transmission towers that generate low frequencies. Now imagine people living near a tower generating very high frequencies being amazingly healthy, intelligent and peace loving. That would be a threat to those that wish to have their personal power usurped by the current day planetary governments.
I guess they just found someway to keep the control (small distribution range) and low (harmful) frequencies.
We shall see.
Ah, a nice mdn word: human