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Intel chief technology officer Justin Rattner demonstrated a Wireless Energy Resonant Link as he spoke at the California firm's annual developers forum in San Francisco.
Electricity was sent wirelessly to a lamp on stage, lighting a 60 watt bulb that uses more power than a typical laptop computer.
Most importantly, the electricity was transmitted without zapping anything or anyone that got between the sending and receiving units.
Originally posted by Leo Strauss
This reminded me of Tesla's dream...wonder if it is his technology??
Originally posted by Orion Crystal Ice
Tesla did so much back in his day it was unreal. And unfortunately, a good portion of it will probably not be real for us for a long time.
Originally posted by Leo Strauss
It could be possible to charge for electricity for cars by having the cars maintain an onboard regulated meter connected wirelessly to the highway network. Does anyone have a patent on that yet??
Originally posted by Leo Strauss
reply to post by johnsky
It could be possible to charge for electricity for cars by having the cars maintain an onboard regulated meter connected wirelessly to the highway network. Does anyone have a patent on that yet??
Originally posted by johnsky
Originally posted by Leo Strauss
reply to post by johnsky
Yeah, I thought about that.
Problem I hit was, if someone simply disables the wireless meter, you can't exactly shut down an entire highway just to cut off that one car's usage of power.
Originally posted by LoneGunMan
I wonder what the possible range limit is, if there is one. Solar collecting stations in space beaming electricity to th ground would solve all of our power problems...
Originally posted by johnsky
Yes Tesla messed with this... and never got it working. They cut his funding off when they realized they couldn't put a meter on it and charge customers for the power usage.
No, it won't be deployed with cars... because you won't be able to know who to send the bill to.