Author Topic: NZ to trial world-first commercial long range, wireless power transmission  (Read 2171 times)

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That could have implications for California. The vast majority of the human-caused fires with highest costs in terms of destroyed property had powerline disruption as the proximate cause (that was a very carefully worded sentence)

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Debbie says 'Don't cross the beams!'

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People are all upset and believing all sorts of bad things about 5G, I hate to think about the conspiracies theories they think up for wireless power.

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Layman thought, wouldn't a bloody huge magnet be able to nick the stream of electricity? Might not need the hugeness but you get the idea. Perhaps that would need an equivalent force, I do not know.

Not read the finer details but guess it's most feasible if the line of sight is several hundred metres above ground level.

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This is really interesting. Good to see some action on a 120 year old idea! Lets hope they don't all meet with an accident the night before the test  ;)