Re: About wireless energy transfer

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Original poster: westland <westland@xxxxxx>

Soljacic has actually gotten a lot of publicity from this work ... he 
is Serbian, and in interviews has said that he was very interested in 
revisiting Nicola Tesla's work in wireless communication and energy 
transfer.  I had read somewhere that the modeling for the phenomenon 
that they are investigating is mathematically equivalent to quantum 
tunneling (a portion of the probability density for the wave equation 
that ends up on the other side of a barrier).   I think there is a 
wikipedia write up on this somewhere


Tesla list wrote:
> Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz" <acmdq@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> There is a note in the Scientific American magazine about recent 
> research on wireless energy transfer:
> http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa004&articleID=E87D47E5-E7F2-99DF-3AE75A880501B215 
>
> With a link to a paper:
> http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0611063
>
> Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz"
>
>    Did you find anything in that paper which was new other than the 
> fancy simulations and graphics and obscure terminology?  I read it 
> when it first came out and seems to me those guys think they're the 
> first ones to discover that two resonant circuits tuned to the same 
> frequency will couple energy and that the higher the Q the better the coupling?
> They don't seem to claim anything unreasonable in the way of 
> efficiency.  Although they mention a Tesla patent (Wardenclyffe 
> transmitter with no receiver mentioned)  I don't think they are at 
> all aware of his World Power System patents or what he was doing at 
> Colorado Springs over 100 years ago.  His big "primary around the 
> room" with tuned coils inside it pretty well represents their 
> proposed laptop computer charging setup.
>
>    I'd be interested in your comments as the paper annoyed me and I 
> was surprised it got published.
>
> Ed