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Article #21351Re: wireless electricity
From: F. L. Charles Seeger III
Date: Sun, 07 May 1989 22:52
Date: Sun, 07 May 1989 22:52
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In article <9504@dasys1.UUCP> aj-mberg@dasys1.UUCP (Micha Berger) writes: |I was wondering.... | Since we do have stations putting out energy, and we can power |cicuits off them (e.g. crystal radio sets) how much free power could a |person pull out of the air? Is it a fuction of antenna size? Yeah, it would be, and of the signal strength. A recently retired prof of mine used to do this back in the 40s and 50s -- used the transmitted power from one station to power a radio that he had tuned to a competitor! -- Charles Seeger 216 Larsen Hall +1 904 392 8935 Electrical Engineering University of Florida Just say NO to seeger@iec.ufl.edu Gainesville, FL 32611 EtherTalk
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!poe.ufnet.ufl.edu!seeger From: seeger@poe.ufnet.ufl.edu (F. L. Charles Seeger III) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: wireless electricity Message-ID: <20264@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Date: 7 May 89 22:52:11 GMT References: <736@ultb.UUCP> <9504@dasys1.UUCP> Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Reply-To: seeger@poe.ufnet.ufl.edu (F. L. Charles Seeger III) Organization: UF EE Dept Lines: 14