Re: About wireless energy transfer

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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz" <acmdq@xxxxxxxxxx>

There is a note in the Scientific American magazine about recent 
research on wireless energy transfer:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa004&articleID=E87D47E5-E7F2-99DF-3AE75A880501B215 

With a link to a paper:
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0611063

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz"

   Did you find anything in that paper which was new other than the 
fancy simulations and graphics and obscure terminology?  I read it 
when it first came out and seems to me those guys think they're the 
first ones to discover that two resonant circuits tuned to the same 
frequency will couple energy and that the higher the Q the better the 
coupling?
They don't seem to claim anything unreasonable in the way of 
efficiency.  Although they mention a Tesla patent (Wardenclyffe 
transmitter with no receiver mentioned)  I don't think they are at 
all aware of his World Power System patents or what he was doing at 
Colorado Springs over 100 years ago.  His big "primary around the 
room" with tuned coils inside it pretty well represents their 
proposed laptop computer charging setup.

   I'd be interested in your comments as the paper annoyed me and I 
was surprised it got published.

Ed