Monday, 10 November 2008

hmm..

ive been rather unlucky in finding jobs for this past month la...but i want to fund my own hols in dec...sighs

...also it has been super cold recently but like its only 6 degrees...where as last month it hit -5 and i still walked over to my neighbours house using shorts and a t-shirt...

on the lighter side of things,
i know all of u have heard of wi-fi... but have u heard of wireless electricity? (mebbe im a bit outdated since this article was dated 2007)

"The experiment exploits the phenomenon of resonant coupling. It involves two copper coils of two feet in diameter. One, the transmitter, is connected to a power source and the other is connected to a light bulb. The two coils are set up two metres apart, and when the transmitter is switched on, the light bulb (attached to the receiver) lights up.

MIT explains how resonant coupling can add energy to a system by drawing a parallel with a child on a swing. The child can, by pumping his or her legs at the resonant frequency of the swing, add energy to the system and swing higher. Similarly, an opera singer can, by sustaining a powerful enough note for long enough, cause a wine glass to shatter, so long as the note matches the resonant frequency of the glass.

In the experiment, the transmitter generates a non-radiative magnetic field oscillating at MHz frequencies. This field mediates the power exchange with the other coil, which has been specifically designed to resonate with it."

my lecturer went to a science expo in london and he saw a laptop running on wireless power. thats just absolutely wicked sick man. totally going to be revolutionary. ive tot about the idea a long time b4 but like was wondering wad would happen if someone walked between the power output and the receiver...sot tiok man

but like according to my russian coursemate, the idea has already been ard since the 1930s with Tesla but it didnt catch on. Can u frikkin imagine wad our world would be like if we all stuck with tesla's idea of transferring energy? No wires, cables, and total freedom of moving things ard(within certain ranges of course) but id bet that within 78 yrs of development & innovation electricity would be able to reach kms away...

hmm...so well just have to wait and see how this resonance thing shapes the world then

1 comment:

  1. yeah, I know about that... it's called IPT (inductive power transfer) and the patents for it are held by the University of Auckland. one of our crazy as old researchers developed it

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