Intel Claims an Advance In Wireless Power

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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Re:What a waste of energy

[ShieldW0lf]

Tesla wanted to do this on a large scale over a hundred years ago, and was prevented by his investors because there was no way to meter usage. He filed a patent for his concept in 1900. This technology is crippled and extremely late.

Re:What a waste of energy

[ShieldW0lf]

Tesla wasn't a hacker like Edison. He was a visionary, who saw deeply into the inner workings of the universe at an intuitive level. He captured what he saw in the language of math, and created the foundations for the modern electric age almost singlehandedly. The HAARP project in Alaska is based on his work in this field.

If he said it was possible within the laws of physics, personally, I believe him. He was probably the most important man in history.

Re:What a waste of energy

[encoderer]

Here: The actual story I was referencing is the last one on this page. I remember it being a "driveway moment" for me -- I got home, and sat in the driveway until the story was over.

(I had trouble w/ streaming -- but I clicked the "pop out" button and there's a download link from there. It's just an MP3)

http://www.studio360.org/episodes/2008/01/25

Re:What a waste of energy

[Anonymous Coward]

Fanatics? No.. realistic. Tesla has been regarded as "The Father of Physics", "The man who invented the twentieth century" and "the patron saint of modern electricity." He's far from being a 'crackpot who got lucky'.

Inventions include:

Electromechanical devices and principles developed by Nikola Tesla:

        * Various devices that use rotating magnetic fields (1882)
        * The Induction motor, rotary transformers, and "high" frequency alternators
        * The Tesla coil,[31] his magnifying transmitter, and other means for increasing the intensity of electrical oscillations (including condenser discharge transformations and the Tesla oscillators[32][33])
        * Alternating current long-distance electrical transmission system[34] (1888) and other methods and devices for power transmission
        * Systems for wireless communication (prior art for the invention of radio) and radio frequency oscillators[35]
        * Robotics and the "AND" logic gate[36]
        * Electrotherapy Tesla currents[37][38][39]
        * Wireless transfer of electricity and the Tesla effect[40][41]
        * Tesla impedance phenonomena[42]
        * Tesla electro-static field
        * Tesla principle
        * Bifilar coil
        * Telegeodynamics
        * Tesla insulation
        * Tesla impulses[43]
        * Tesla frequencies[31]
        * Tesla discharge[31]
        * Forms of commutators and methods of regulating third brushes
        * Tesla turbines (eg., bladeless turbines) for water, steam and gas and the Tesla pumps
        * Tesla igniter
        * Tesla compressor
        * X-rays Tubes using the Bremsstrahlung process
        * Devices for ionized gases and "Hot Saint Elmo's Fire".[44]
        * Devices for high field emission
        * Devices for charged particle beams
        * Phantom streaming devices[45]
        * Arc light systems
        * Methods for providing extremely low level of resistance to the passage of electrical current (predecessor to superconductivity)
        * Voltage multiplication circuitry
        * Devices for high voltage discharges
        * Devices for lightning protection
        * VTOL aircraft
        * Dynamic theory of gravity
        * Concepts for electric vehicles
        * Polyphase systems

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

No matter if the 'Tesla fanatics' know much about physics or not, Tesla still was and remains a very rare genius.

Thank you for trolling!