Journal #1, August 31

Intel cuts electric cords with wireless power system

This is a breakthrough that will change our lives! Not only can I steal my neighbors WiFi, but I can now steal their electricity! I don't do that nor would I but there are definitely flaws in this system. I don't see 100% or even 50% of the power getting that is getting transferred being received. I also see this as a hazard for people's safety. The article says that the transmission of power did not affect anyone who stood in the middle of the transmission. How do we know this for sure? Cigarettes were just another way to feel a "buzz" until years later it was discovered that a high percentage of smokers were getting lung cancer. Oh, and remember that whole "It turns out the human body is not affected by magnetic fields; it is affected by elective fields. So what we are doing is transmitting energy using the magnetic field not the electric field." comment? Yea, so if you have a pacemaker, you're going to die. I hate to bag on this article, but none of this is said in the article. This is why when you read this article, you asked yourself, "Why 2050, and not 2010?".

I asked my friend "What would you say if you could charge your laptop with wireless electricity?" and he said "Will this give me cancer?". Well this was after, "Awesome!".

But seriously I would love for this to happen, and who knows, maybe my Computer Engineering degree could take me somewhere into the power industry, even though that's more Electrical Engineering. It's really an interesting topic to me personally. I can't wait to charge my phone by just being a powered room. This would seriously be a great benefit and advancement to society. I don't think I have to tell you all the great reasons why.

Tesla did it first
"In Colorado, Tesla carried out various long distance power transmission experiments. Tesla effect is the application of a type of electrical conduction (that is, the movement of energy through space and matter; not just the production of voltage across a conductor). Through longitudinal waves, Tesla transferred energy to receiving devices. He sent electrostatic forces through natural media across a conductor situated in the changing magnetic flux and transferred power to a conducting receiving device (such as Tesla's wireless bulbs)."