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11 Dec, 2006

Don't take it personally -- everything I know is wrong, too.

I printed an article from CIO Today out a few weeks ago, and have re-read it several times (maybe 5). I'm not kidding. Here's the headline: "MIT Working on Broadcast Power."

Perhaps because I went to a technical high school (Brooklyn Tech), I have an extreme amount of respect for anything (or anyone) coming out of MIT. But this is beyond the pale. I've been working with electrical contractors and electricians since 1979, more or less -- and now someone is talking about WIRELESS POWER.

Here's a link to the story.

Here's a paragraph that breaks my rice bowl:

"Scientists have known for nearly two hundred years that energy can be transferred without wires. This wireless transfer of energy, such as light energy from the Sun for solar power or the transfer of microwaves from transmitters for communication, involves relatively low levels of energy."

I did a bit of digging and found a link to what I think is the paper on which the article is based -- a 17p PDF titled "Wireless Non-Radiative Energy Transfer." [The words were italicized in the original]

So . . . everything I thought I knew (for sure) turns out to be wrong, maybe. You, too?