Yes this has been tried before, however this company is using diffrent method. Instead of transmitting the data throught the actual powerline, they will actually be using the magnetic field created by the current to transmit the data along the lines, thereby avoiding the problems the other company ran into, hopefully.
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I read an article on the sceintists from Maryland that stated that they were not going ahead with creating the new organism due to the religous implications. There was even a quote from one of the scientists stating that they wanted to wait for the issue to be throughly debated before proceding.
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Yes this has been tried before, however this company is using diffrent method. Instead of transmitting the data throught the actual powerline, they will actually be using the magnetic field created by the current to transmit the data along the lines, thereby avoiding the problems the other company ran into, hopefully.
I read an article on the sceintists from Maryland that stated that they were not going ahead with creating the new organism due to the religous implications. There was even a quote from one of the scientists stating that they wanted to wait for the issue to be throughly debated before proceding.