I am thinking of another use for this kind of power transfer. Why not use it to make all circuits wireless? It is a known fact that most problems with electronic equipment are at the connections, and this seems to be able to do away with them. Now signal is just another form of power and should be transferable as well. Color code the circuit parts and make them just the right shape to slide easily into shielded boxes where all the parts can work together. Do not need long ranges, just a half an inch or so will do fine for the any plug in device to communicate and/or power up from the backplane. This will make maintainance plug easy for maintainance personnel. Most techs prefer to be module pluckers anyway. If the resulting equipment looks like it came off the set of a 'StarGate SG-1" program, so what as long as one does not have to pay their producers money to use the idea.....which I just came up with anyway and I would be very surprised if I was the only one to think of it. And if the new equipment was even a tenth as long lived as the stuff on that show was supposed to be...thousands of years........
Standing Bear On Friday 17 November 2006 12:32, Mark S Bilk wrote: > 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
