RE: those folks at MIT (fwd)

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Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:10:02 -0500
From: David Thomson <dwt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: 'Tesla list' <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: those folks at MIT (fwd)

Hi Mike,

> I wonder 
> if they rotated the reciever coil,  oh say about 90º,   how 
> much power they'd get to that light bulb.    For a system to 
> recharge laptops etc.....does the receiver have to be in 
> direct ine with the transmitter?

Excellent question!  They were supposed to use capacative discs for their
receiver according to the original paper.    If there is inductive coupling
between the coils, then they have not demonstrated the physics they were
trying to prove.

Dave