Re: Soljacic wins $10k MIT Young Scholar Award (fwd)

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Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:28:23 -0700
From: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Soljacic wins $10k MIT Young Scholar Award (fwd)

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> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:00:29 -0500
> From: Matthew Boddicker <shmerpleton_town@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Soljacic wins $10k MIT Young Scholar Award (fwd)
> 
> This is Matthew Boddicker
> 
> Has Soljacic actually published or written a research paper stating his 
> findings?
Yes.. Science Magazine about a month ago. Link in the archives

  All that I know of the project is from the media. Why not
> eliminate the middle man go directly to the source of the commotion? Who 
> knows? Maybe the paper is poorly written and unscientific. 
Not terrible from a writing standpoint, nor not entirely unscientific.
Also, if the
> paper isn't out for the public and the experiment repeatable, that is bad 
> science. 

Science is OK (repeats what's been known for 100 yrs), the objection is 
to the presentation that this is something new and different (it's not), 
and that it's going to revolutionize power distribution (it won't, not 
given practical constraints)
I am probably an idealist by saying that last sentence. Still,
> there must be a way to actually read his paper.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1143254

> 
> Thanks,
> Matthew Boddicker
>