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Pushing 800W of Wireless Power at 5 Meters

Posted by timothy on from the distance-rocks dept.

Joe Decker writes "The Nevada Lightning Laboratory has experimented with Nicola Tesla's methods of wireless power transmission to push 800 Watts over 5 meters, besting MITs mark of 60W over 2 meters last year. (May I dream of wireless laptop power? I hate power cords.)"

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  1. Lets think about this for a while by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    800 Watts over 5 meters, ...
    (May I dream of wireless laptop power? I hate power cords.)

    I think I'll pass on that. Don't really want that sort of power aimed directly at the boys.

    1. Re:Lets think about this for a while by profplump · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If a milliwatt cellphone has the (potential) ability to cause DNA recombination errors

      It doesn't. If it did, you would have been killed by the local broadcast media stations years ago. Or, your know, the sun -- that giant ball throwing gigawatts of wide-spectrum EM radiation at us all day, every day.

  2. That's nothing by internerdj · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've seen more watts over more distance all my life.
    http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/primer/lightning/ltg_damage.html
    You just don't want to stand between the source and the destination...