Re: those folks at MIT (fwd)

["Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:55:32 -0700
From: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: those folks at MIT (fwd)

Jim:

    Your note is FAR FAR too generous to those guys!  I have only seen 
their original paper; its one Tesla reference is irrelevant and their 
nomenclature is pure puffery.  The MATLAB [?] pictures are pretty but so 
what?  Seljacic obviously came from a totally different and 
non-engineering background discipline and his "discoveries" [the most 
astonishing one is that maximum coupling for a pair of tuned circuits 
occurs when they are both tuned to the same frequency!!!] may indeed be 
original as far as he's concerned.  If you play with his equations and 
parameters in his charts you can convert them to conventional concepts 
like kQ - there's absolutely nothing new there.  His little "horns with 
ears", duplicated in some of the press reports, are foolish at best.

    It's still  mystery to me why MIT endorsed their papers since they 
must be a real embarassment to anyone in the EE or Physics fields who 
might have looked at them.  Perhaps no one has ever seen them?

    On a more positive note I have yet to find the source paper you have 
read.  Is it available on line?

Ed