Wireless power?? (Score 1)

Before I start I do believe that this is in fact an April Fool... When I first read it I thought...cool that would be a good idea.. and then moved on. Hang on a second I though, hold the phone... my brain started to clear into reality (ok I've just woken up, this only 3 hours sleep).

Firstly, if this was really possible than why have we not seem self powered radios on the market, after all they do use radio signals and these signals are passed through the coils that are technically the instrument of energy conversion...mmmmmmmm...

Secondly, now this I'm a little foggy on, I've not done electronics for some years but I believe that coils are only about 80-90% efficient and therefore the small amount of energy present within a radio signal is reduced dramatically before we start with any form of other charging circuit that would be required, and these circuits would also be quite in-efficient...mmmmm

Third, just think about the efficiency of radio signals, the further away you from the source the less energy is available... again I'm not sure about this but I think it involves some form of inverse square law or something, meaning that you only have to travel a short distance before you are effectively out of range, think about how hard it is to get a good wireless signal on your router at home, walls and other objects get in the way to sap the signals strength..

I'm sure that in the future we will develop devices that are so efficient, and not require a super cooled environment to work in, that energy can be extracted from the ether, however I don't believe that time is now.

This article has been carefully written so that those with knowledge would engage their brains into figuring out how it would work (tech geeks like me) and go at a tangent considering this rather than considering a slightly bigger picture. I was also delivered at such a time, and this is the clear bit, at a time when they knew that I would be half asleep and be drawn in by the scam....paaa, it didn't work, I hope ... lol