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Intel Claims an Advance In Wireless Power

Posted by kdawson on from the magnet-fields-are-harmless-so-they-say dept.

Many readers are sending in coverage of a demo at Intel's developer forum of a wirelessly powered 60-watt bulb. The NYTimes gives background on Intel's improvement to the 'wireless resonant energy link' technology pioneered at MIT, where researchers achieved 50% efficiency of power transmitted several meters via magnetic fields. Intel reached 75% efficiency. Now they just have to make those coils a lot smaller.

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  1. Re:What a waste of energy by Sebilrazen · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Wow, just wow.

    Parent should be funny, not interesting - it's an April Fool's product.

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  2. Re:What a waste of energy by geekoid · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    the USSR also built devices to capture 'psychic energy'.

    Big deal.

    Add to that that the story make no sense. What the Russians were building would no look anything like what Tesla built from the outside.

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