Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] okay, april fools got me

["Mark Rages" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 4/3/06, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>
> Sure, you can beam power, but as you said you wouldn't want to stand in a
> power beam.  We are talking about line of sight transmission, right?  It
> cannot go through walls or through anything else.  Think of it as a
> high-energy laser beam -- now where can you realistically beam to?
>

Have you ever built a crystal radio set?  That's powered by radio
signals beamed through walls.

> I'm sure that something more than metering stopped Tesla's plan.  Other
> problems would include accidental fires, fried birds, etc.
>

It's not practical for high power.  Picture a microwave oven with no door on it.

There is a old story engineers tell each other about a high-powered
Mexican (unregulated) AM transmitter right across the border.  It
seems they weren't getting the range they expected, and investigation
found the peasants were connecting light bulbs to quarter wavelengths
of wire and getting free illumination.

I don't think the story is true.

Regards,
Mark
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