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Old 15-February-2007, 09:16 PM
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Im looking for news and views based upon Power Over Wireless technology. A number of universities are researching and developing these systems. There has also been talk of NASA look to apply it to solar satellites.

Please reply if you have any news on this technology.
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I ask....
as a University Educatedless, yet broad minded fellow.....

Could future artificial intelligence communicate telepathically?
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Sorry I dont understand.
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Not sure if this is what you had in mind, but I have seen a video of a model helicopter powered by a microwave beam. (I would not want to be sat in a full sized one while being cooked from below!)
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Ive heard that many of the developers will license there technology to the bigger manufacters such as Sony and Samsung and they have plans to market the technology over the next 2 years.
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Are ya looking for the aforementioned microwave stuff, or something more simple, like a solar cell?
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According to an article on the BBC site Wireless Energy is beginning to take off.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6725955.stm

It also has a name WiTricity, pretty cool concept when they make it safe
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