[LINK] Some shocking news about wireless electricity

[Jan Whitaker]

At 08:40 AM 11/06/2007, rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au wrote:
>How does MIT discuss the efficiency issue? It ignores it; in a 
>time-honoured technique of spin, MIT's article changes the subject 
>(it ignores power waste and instead segues into dismissing "fears" 
>of health effects that nobody expressed).
>
>So I'll say it for MIT: something which wastes 55% of the input 
>power is not even remotely useful as a consumer product.

Agreed. Maybe they think there is an undiscovered physical property 
that can be exploited to get over the 50% mark. It would have to be a 
lot higher than that, though, to make up for the cost of energy to 
replace the production process of the standard commercial approaches 
now in use.

Jan


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