[ausev] Intel cuts electric cords with wireless power system -Yahoo! News

[Gil Dawson]

At 4:45 P -0500 8/22/08, John Penry at TransTexasTrucks wrote:
>Didn't Tesla say it was possible to transmit electricity.... about 1935?

Oh, it works.  Microwave beams can transmit lots of power.  But it 
wipes out birds that fly through the beam.  And maybe airplanes. 
It's hard to get insurance for this.

One of Tesla's ideas used RF, lower frequency than microwave, that 
transmitted in all directions instead of in a beam.  Take a long 
flourescent tube and hold onto one end of it while you point the 
other end toward a radio transmitting tower and you'll see the effect 
from as uch as a block or so away.  Ham radio antennas work too, only 
you have to get a bit closer.

--Gil