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mwinter
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Food fight in the city where Wayne's World was filmed
mwinter
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Piezoelectricity - turn heat into sound which is turned into electricity =-O
mwinter
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dang yo south bend is right by where my dad's family lives
mwinter
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Wireless power for reals this time
mike
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Steve what do you think? This seems like magnetic inductance at first glance. Know anything about evanescent waves? Sounds legit. cooool :D

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/dcprieve/Evanescent%20waves.htm
mike
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Couple more links:
http://www.mit.edu/~soljacic/AIP_press.pdf
Actual paper
Steven
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I know very little about evanescent waves although I know they are used in fusion reactors. You basically have huge antennas launch EM waves into a plasma at appropriate frequencies to excite resonances which heat the plasma. This doesn't seem all that different it just requires a little more finesse when you want to do something other than just heat a region. Oh yeah and not fry any people that happen to be in the area. Overall I think it's quite plausible.
mwinter
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I believe China is the future
Drew
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augmented reality at GT

i think i want the quake set up