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Strategies & Market Trends : Buy and Sell Signals, and Other Market Perspectives

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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (11199)	10/12/2010 8:15:17 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) of 223070

Actually, if you read science fiction... there are discussions about how to do it going back decades. I even fooled around with some myself for part hobby and part of my job at HP... in simple terms, shoot a photon at a detector and it pops out an electron. Some stuff I remember from Arthur C Clarke days was a big solar cell in space that beams to earth the energy collected from the sun using microwaves... trouble is it cooks anything that flies into the beam... and it would also be indistinguishable from a weapon. Also, if you know what you are doing, you can steal power from transmission lines using magnetic fields... I believe they check for it now by measuring drops since it is easy to do.... Nice thing about wires is nearly all the energy goes where you want it. Most of the other methods are not too efficient nor secure.

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