electricity through the air

[slave1]

http://tech.msn.com/news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=17279923

here is the article on it.

electricity through the air. how cool is that

what do people think of this tech. i think it will revolutionize a lot of things. home construction, office buildings. you name it

 

[Omis]

Once it is made more efficient, this could be a revolutionary tech.

 

[DtJ Jungle]

woah...really interesting topic

keep updating this ****.

 

[Darkslash]

If they avoid the electrocution in mid air problem then we got our selves the next revolution in electricity since 2 Canadians and Edison made the lightbulb.

 

[Crimson King]

**** yes! This is sounding like broadcast power.

 

[The Boss of God]

This is going to be horrible for my nervous system.

 

[SuperRacoon]

Awesome, that is freaking awesome! The question I have now is how much power does the radio generate consume? Also, the range seems a little short for some of these devices, I can't wait to see what this will be able to do in the near future.

 

[Virgilijus]

I must say that is pretty awesome. I know Tesla had a very inefficient way of doing it and that it's been done since, but this seems a bigger step in the right direction.

 

[GoldShadow]

My friend was telling me about this sort of stuff.

It would be totally awesome. No more clutter of wires to charge or power anything.

 

[Panix]

probably going to have some serious side effect's.

next thing you know. 10 years in where all walking around the streets like zombie's because of fried brain's

 

[The Boss of God]

probably going to have some serious side effect's.

These are exactly my thoughts.
I really, really wouldn't like electricity flowing through my body without permission.
There are already enough sources of uncontrollable pollution pulsing through me.
Cell phone satellites are already beaming down radiation onto every square millimeter of matter just so people can communicate without a cord.
No idea how that is affecting me. I'm 100% sure it's not in a positive way.
What makes it all the worse worse is that I can't choose to get rid of this "electromagnetic pollution" - it's forced on me against my will.

 

[Kri3o]

probably going to have some serious side effect's.

next thing you know. 10 years in where all walking around the streets like zombie's because of fried brain's

I wouln't expect us to be like zombies but yeah it's most likely going to have some bad things along with it.

 

[LLDL]

me and my friend came up with that idea a couple of months ago. But we were like the only problem is that you'll get fried if you walk in between the path of the device and the outlet lol.

 

[GoldShadow]

These are exactly my thoughts.
I really, really wouldn't like electricity flowing through my body without permission.
There are already enough sources of uncontrollable pollution pulsing through me.
Cell phone satellites are already beaming down radiation onto every square millimeter of matter just so people can communicate without a cord.
No idea how that is affecting me. I'm 100% sure it's not in a positive way.
What makes it all the worse worse is that I can't choose to get rid of this "electromagnetic pollution" - it's forced on me against my will.

lol, electricity isn't "flowing through" you and it wouldn't be with this method. This new technology is no different from radio waves flowing through you; it utilizes the exact same electromagnetic properties.

Low frequency waves like radio waves or light waves have not been found to be harmful to humans, and that's what this technology would appear to use. This is opposed to things like x-rays, gamma rays, UV rays, etc.

And "electromagnetic pollution" isn't forced upon you against your will. Unless you'd rather live without modern day computers, cell phones, television, radios, satellites, modern medicine and diagnostics, electricity, lighting, batteries, most modern technology or scientific advancements, or the sun, then I don't think you are against electromagnetic waves.

me and my friend came up with that idea a couple of months ago. But we were like the only problem is that you'll get fried if you walk in between the path of the device and the outlet lol.

You won't, as long as it only uses low frequency waves. It would be like saying everyone within a several hundred radius of a radio station would get fried. But they don't. They're just fine.

 

[slave1]

they had another article, but i could not find it. it was mentioning something about a device that might be able to power an entire room. it said it might reach the market in another year and a half.

 

[Overload]

I remember one day wondering if it was possible to have wireless electricity. A few days later, while browsing the web, I came across an article talking about using electromagnetic coils in the ceilings to do it.

 

[Dark_Crono]

lol, electricity isn't "flowing through" you and it wouldn't be with this method. This new technology is no different from radio waves flowing through you; it utilizes the exact same electromagnetic properties.

Low frequency waves like radio waves or light waves have not been found to be harmful to humans, and that's what this technology would appear to use. This is opposed to things like x-rays, gamma rays, UV rays, etc.

And "electromagnetic pollution" isn't forced upon you against your will. Unless you'd rather live without modern day computers, cell phones, television, radios, satellites, modern medicine and diagnostics, electricity, lighting, batteries, most modern technology or scientific advancements, or the sun, then I don't think you are against electromagnetic waves.


You won't, as long as it only uses low frequency waves. It would be like saying everyone within a several hundred radius of a radio station would get fried. But they don't. They're just fine.

I was talking with a friend about the same thing and we found Wifi its already affecting your brain and it haves low frequency waves too.

 

[Geist]

This is awesome. I'm wondering how many years it'll take for it to get efficient enough to be released mainstream...

As for you silly worry-warts, you guys should just stick to being worried about the sun giving you cancer, common chemicals slowly degenerating the Y chromosome, fluoride in water, and the US government.

 

[GoldShadow]

I was talking with a friend about the same thing and we found Wifi its already affecting your brain and it haves low frequency waves too.

Nope.

"when the research is viewed as a whole, there is a wide consensus that there is no persuasive evidence that such relatively weak exposures do cause short or long term health effects."
http://www.fcps.edu/fts/safety-security/publications/RFEESurvey/safetyhealthbackground.htm

"Testing done on wireless network devices indicate no confirmed health risks at this time."
http://www.uchsc.edu/is/wireless/faq.htm

"Epidemiological studies by reputable scientists have consistently failed to demonstrate convincing evidence of any adverse health effects from RF exposure below the regulatory limits"
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/ehs/radiation/nirad.htm

"No adverse health affects have been attributed to wireless LANs."
http://www.technology.ku.edu/internet/wireless/faq.shtml#safe

 

[Witchking_of_Angmar]

****, GoldShadow is pro at..... knowing things

 

[Dark_Crono]

Nope.

"when the research is viewed as a whole, there is a wide consensus that there is no persuasive evidence that such relatively weak exposures do cause short or long term health effects."
http://www.fcps.edu/fts/safety-security/publications/RFEESurvey/safetyhealthbackground.htm

"Testing done on wireless network devices indicate no confirmed health risks at this time."
http://www.uchsc.edu/is/wireless/faq.htm

"Epidemiological studies by reputable scientists have consistently failed to demonstrate convincing evidence of any adverse health effects from RF exposure below the regulatory limits"
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/ehs/radiation/nirad.htm

"No adverse health affects have been attributed to wireless LANs."
http://www.technology.ku.edu/internet/wireless/faq.shtml#safe

I found this http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/79388... on how much exposure we have to those waves.

 

[Geist]

That's the same thing with radiation. We're constantly absorbing radiation, just in small amounts. There's a certain limit that can be absorbed before it starts having negative effects. The actual amount needed for that to happen is ridiculous, and you'd have to put in a conscious effort to get negative effects from any commonly radio wave.

 

[Deleted member]

Wow, that would open up so many possibilities.

 

[Dark_Crono]

yeah but if i remember corectly a lot of people died because they were working near lots of radiation and people used to say that they were no side effects.

 

[GoldShadow]

I found this http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/79388362-70A9-4C2D-BA6E-9D7686EF2CB7/ ...in the end it depends on how much exposure we have to those waves.

The clip in that link links to this page/story:
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=21642

Now, ignoring for a second that I wouldn't really go to a place like "informationliberation.com" to get my news (especially on things like this), the article doesn't say anything about anything. The school in question got up in arms because a "teacher got sick" after they installed the new system (you know, because when you install a new wifi network that must be the cause; couldn't possibly be the cold/flu/spoiled food/lack of sleep/stress/infection/bad luck/medication/strain/ten thousand other things that could have caused it).

And there haven't been, as far as I know, any credible studies showing any conclusive link; there have been a number of studies showing that there is no link between such radiation and disease/health affects (that is, at the levels we are all exposed to).

Also, this (blowtoes is right):

That's the same thing with radiation. We're constantly absorbing radiation, just in small amounts. There's a certain limit that can be absorbed before it starts having negative effects. The actual amount needed for that to happen is ridiculous, and you'd have to put in a conscious effort to get negative effects from any commonly radio wave.

 

[MyCurse4Life]

Thats is pretty coo but come one think of it and how it sounds. "Electricity through the air" I can tell you that name is no party because won't that shock you if there is always gonna be eletrical currents going through the air or is this all a joke? If it is then im ok with it and if its not then when is this gonna happen? In the next few hundread years?

 

[AltF4]

Don't even bother with that nonsense. Wireless signals have no effect on your body. It makes no difference how close you are.

At any given point in time right now, you have thousands of electromagnetic signals that are passing right through you. It has been that way ever since the radio was invented. There are no negative side effects.


Wireless POWER however, can be very dangerous. For example, I would not recommend damaging the wire mesh on the door of your microwave. Allowing those waves to get out would cook you. And that is exactly the problem with many of Tesla's inventions.

Transmitting power wirelessly is easy. It really is. But doing so without cooking anyone in the middle is hard.

 

[GoldShadow]

But Alt! What about the WiFi gnomes that secretly plant cancer in you when you turn on a radio or wireless network?

 

[The Star King]

And Nintendo should implement this in the US version of the DSi!

...not