Googling for Soljacic resonance
finds a lot of uncritical references to this work, including this in Scientific American: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=E87D47E5-E7F2-99DF-3AE75A880501B215 which says, "The results are strongly encouraging but the real test of the thing will be experiments, which we are working on now." Soljacic says. and links to this page, which links to a pdf article: http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0611063 http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0611063 Wireless Non-Radiative Energy Transfer by Aristeidis Karalis, J.D.Joannopoulos, and Marin Soljai Maybe I'm just a skeptical old fogey, but I think that if a lossy, resistive human being gets between those two weird ring-disk thingies, he or she is going to absorb plenty of EM energy. (Which causes cancer by lining up your chromosomes like iron filings in a magnetic field, because the chromosomes have a different permittivity or something than the surrounding cytoplasm.) And it would seem that with the lab shop resources available at MIT it would be pretty easy to actually _do_ the experiments before announcing this great breakthrough to the world. Is there such a thing as tunneling across a distance of 16 feet? Maybe they meant nanometers... On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 09:32:30AM -0500, Terry Blanton wrote: >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6129460.stm > >"Physics promises wireless power >By Jonathan Fildes >Science and technology reporter, BBC News > >Plugs and wires could soon become a thing of the past >The tangle of cables and plugs needed to recharge today's electronic >gadgets could soon be a thing of the past. > >US researchers have outlined a relatively simple system that could >deliver power to devices such as laptop computers or MP3 players >without wires." > ><more> > >They *do* give him credit in the article. So what are "Tails"? > >Terry
