-Caveat Lector- I don't like the sound of this -- if it means they're intending to send *microwaves* into every living room, bedroom, office, etc., travelling over the existing 50/60 Hz AC power lines..... If so, this should get more people to invest in solar cells! --Bill New Scientist, 25 December 1999 http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991225/newsstory6.html Net goes magnetic IT SOUNDS like a great idea: using ordinary power lines to carry Internet traffic. But the speed at which power lines can carry data has been limited because the transformers in substations can mangle the signal. Now a Texas company says it has the answer: instead of piggybacking data on the electric current, it uses the magnetic field the current generates to guide a microwave signal along the outside of the cables. Media Fusion of Dallas, Texas, was granted a patent for the idea in November. Inventor William Stewart, the firm's chief scientist, says the magnetic field acts as a waveguide. In Stewart's scheme, the signals are generated by a maser, a device that produces microwaves in the same way that lasers produce light. Stewart says the system can transmit many megabytes of information per second, compared with about 1 megabit per second using electric current as the carrier. The latter is seen as uncompetitive in the face of high-speed phone line access (New Scientist, 18 September, p 13). In the new system, fibre-optic lines will feed Net data to control centres at electrical substations, where it will be translated into microwave pulses that are sent to the subscriber's power line modem. The company has made the system work in the lab and plans to start large trials in the US soon. Kurt Kleiner © Copyright New Scientist, RBI Limited 1999 ~~~~~ More info on Media Fusion technology : http://betanews.efront.com/article.php3?sid=story385f316c29a08 http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,403649,00.html http://www.mediafusionllc.net/northamerica/main/qanda/index.html http://www.mediafusionllc.net/northamerica/main/summary/index.html http://www.mediafusionllc.net/northamerica/main/news/prjune12151999.html . DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
