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To: waitwatchwander who wrote (9194)	2/6/2009 1:28:09 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12247

these are mostly for very near field stuff. You have to take the energy denisty and then multiply this by the power conversion effeciency. I would be surprised if this got to 1/100th of Solar cells in teh future. Thje gpevernment has had a program for this called tiny pebbles using Ad Hoc networks for years. There is just not enough radiated power to get direct power conversion. One would be better to build in a solar cell into every IC device and leave it all out in the car dash all day. More energy there than all of this.