Beam Me Some Juice Scotty

 

1. Wow, now that would be awesome!

   Posted by WarWagon       06/08/2007  at  11:48 AM  



2. Sorry guys but I am not convinced. It’s ok for charging up your Ipod or maybe running a laptop (just) but they struggled to light a 60w bulb so I don’t think it is going to change things too much.

   Posted by LyndonB       06/08/2007  at  01:03 PM  



3. LOL Tesla has to be laughing himself sick!  Nearly 100 years ago, he was using radiant power to light his laboratory, using something similar to florescent lamps of his own design.  Plenty of witnesses described how he would move the lamps around to suit his convenience and that there were no cords or wires. 

   Yeah, billing for radiated power is gonna be tough.  The conspiracy folks say that that’s why Tesla’s inventions didn’t get very far.

   Posted by Dr. Jeff       06/08/2007  at  03:39 PM  



4. Dr. Jeff is absolutely right!  Tesla had this going almost a century ago.  He also, supposedly, built a car that ran on radiated electricity (which, it is said, he pulled out of the sky).  This sort of thing is FAR from impossible.  Just because someone now rediscovered it and is struggling with it doesn’t mean it hasn’t already been refined in the past and won’t be again in the future.

   Posted by Josh C.       06/08/2007  at  04:58 PM  



5. I don’t think any of this technology is new. Lightning qualifies as wireless transmission of electricity. I (and my Ipod) really don’t want to be in the same room with a power source of this type is it is driving a 2000 watt hairdryer.

   Thanks Mr. Christian for your continued efforts.

   Posted by Yellow Dog       06/08/2007  at  05:06 PM  



6. I have long said, the guy who invents wireless power will be the next Bill Gates.

   Thinkgeek.com has been selling ‘wireless extension cords’ since before last Christmas. Nifty gadget that has two microwave antenna pods and the male and female leads of an extension cord. (DISCLAIMER) I am in no way, shape, or form associated with thinkgeek.com, just thought this was a cool gadget.

   Check it out: http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/wec.shtml

   Here’s a quote from Tesla about his room with radiated power:

   Instead of depending on induction at a distance to light the tube [… the] ideal way of lighting a hall or room would [...] be to produce such a condition in it that an illuminating device could be moved and put anywhere, and that it is lighted, no matter where it is put and without being electrically connected to anything. I have been able to produce such a condition by creating in the room a powerful, rapidly alternating electrostatic field. For this purpose I suspend a sheet of metal a distance from the ceiling on insulating cords and connect it to one terminal of the induction coil, the other terminal being preferably connected to the ground. Or else I suspend two sheets as [...] each sheet being connected with one of the terminals of the coil, and their size being carefully determined. An exhausted tube may then be carried in the hand anywhere between the sheets or placed anywhere, even a certain distance beyond them; it remains always luminous

   Posted by Agamemnon       06/08/2007  at  07:09 PM  



7. Don’t hire the band until they say they’re not using RF.

   Posted by Officer Pupp       06/08/2007  at  10:17 PM  



8. I always knew the world would one day recognize the genius of Uncle Fester

   Posted by Kuso JiJi       06/09/2007  at  12:58 AM  



9. Tesla lit incandescent light bulbs 60 mile away from his Colorado facility.  He did it with crude electromechanical devices.

   Posted by Kirk       06/09/2007  at  06:10 AM  



10. There is the Inverse Square law. That’s the difficult one to overcome. Your power (P=EI) is effectively down to zip after a few feet.

    At least you won’t have to invest in a dimmer switch; just move the lamp farther away from the source.

    Forget about anything that reqires more than fractional amperage…

    Posted by serr8d       06/09/2007  at  08:28 AM  



11. The man said a 60 watt bulb at seven feet.
    That’s a very good start.  At such level, variations of IE can kill.

    Posted by Officer Pupp       06/09/2007  at  08:59 AM  



12. About a hundred years ago, on “The Avengers”, there was an episode wherein the villain used ‘broadcast energy’ to kill people.  Serr8d is correct; but, other than in straightforward theoretical examples like squaring the circle, it is hazardous to state that something is impossible.

    Posted by Suidae       06/09/2007  at  10:43 AM  



13. Will it light up my nads as well?

    Posted by Hammer       06/09/2007  at  08:12 PM  

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