<object width="446" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"></param> <param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/EricGiler_2009G-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/EricGiler-2009G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=619&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=eric_giler_demos_wireless_electricity;year=2009;theme=the_creative_spark;theme=what_s_next_in_tech;theme=tales_of_invention;event=TEDGlobal+2009;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;" /><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgColor="#ffffff" width="446" height="326" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/EricGiler_2009G-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/EricGiler-2009G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=619&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=eric_giler_demos_wireless_electricity;year=2009;theme=the_creative_spark;theme=what_s_next_in_tech;theme=tales_of_invention;event=TEDGlobal+2009;"></embed></object> This embedded video shows wireless electricity in a demonstration full link here http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_giler_demos_wireless_electricity.html
This is a very informative link thanks very much. It is enlightening to see how much improvement there can be made in energy efficiency on the supply end. Here is an short article on charging electric cars wireless. http://green.autoblog.com/2010/11/0...-witricity-on-automated-wireless-charging-sy/ After reading the paper linked in the quote from Went Fishing on improving efficiency, I have to wonder how much energy is wasted / lost regarding electric cars and wireless charging. For that matter, is it really beneficial for small devices such as laptops and mobile phones etc. to power up wireless or is it wasteful ? Some great info has been provided that helps me to understand this a little more, although the brilliant ideas that have potential to improve our daily activities are always exciting and to the thoughts of future advances in technology becoming everyday norm. After all it was not all that long ago I was sitting at my computer with an intel 286 ... well maybe some time ago
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/magnetic.htm sounds like the floating electrical magneictfield is bad for your health, that's why they switched everything to the 3 pronged plug
This article doesn't spell out what superconductivity is. In case you are not familiar with it, this is a real phenomenon. When certain materials are cooled to extremely low temperatures, electricity flows thru them with zero resistance. This seems to disobey the basic laws of physics. If you are familiar with the basic electrical equation: Current = Voltage / Resistance Think about the denominator Resistance being zero. The last time I researched superconductivity (a few years ago), there were two basic problems being worked on in research labs: 1) How to raise the temperature at which the superconducting effect occurs. Experimenting with various materials has been steadily raising the temperature. The holy grail was/is superconductivity at room temperature. 2) The second problem was/is the superconducting materials tended to be very brittle making them impractical to replace flexible materials such as copper. I would love to see the US build wind farms in the central US and solar farms in the west and use superconductive power transmission lines to route this power to the east, west and south coasts. But that seems to be too far sighted for the current folks running things. cT
I like it, let's spend our tax dollars on it, seriously. Tesla was super genius. Now if we could do something about the ICE for cars. Its tech like this that could lead the US out of Depression, until Chinese reverse engineer it.