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Old 08-27-2009, 11:03 AM   #1
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A friend of mine sent me this video today. This guy is able to power his electronics without wires.



The demonstration starts at about 6:20
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Amazing.

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Old 08-27-2009, 11:37 AM   #3
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Nice!! They're finally beginning to truly replicate Nikola Tesla's similar ideas and tests (see Tesla effect) on wireless energy transmission (which he began in 1893). Also see: Wardenclyffe Tower.


Seriously though, despite the fact similar ideas have been proposed/demonstrated for years (Tesla was well before his time), this is very very cool. Thanks for the link, lambeburger!
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Wild. Makes me wonder though, are there any inherent dangers with firing power wirelessley like that? SOLID idea and I hope to God it works in a useable way but power just floating through the air like that? Kinda spooky.
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Old 08-27-2009, 12:02 PM   #5
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Wow.

Make it happen people....
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the future is NOW!!
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Tesla is the most important person in the history of electricity.

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Magnetic fields.. makes sense.
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Old 08-27-2009, 12:59 PM   #8
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Wild. Makes me wonder though, are there any inherent dangers with firing power wirelessley like that? SOLID idea and I hope to God it works in a useable way but power just floating through the air like that? Kinda spooky.
No, because it's not actual electricity flowing though the air. It's just a magnetic field, similar to gravity.
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Ah, I need to watch this at home. No speakers at work. That sounds pretty aweseom then, wireless power would be one hell of an invention.
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Wild. Makes me wonder though, are there any inherent dangers with firing power wirelessley like that? SOLID idea and I hope to God it works in a useable way but power just floating through the air like that? Kinda spooky.
I think similar worries were being emitted at the advent of radio/TV signals, and then later on with Cell Phone signals.



Apparently if you wear a tin foil hat . . . . . . . .
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