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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (11199)	10/12/2010 8:15:17 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 223038

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.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (11199)	10/13/2010 9:05:01 AM
From: Chip McVickar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 223038

Ran across a story the other day... True Story: Inventor in Washington State asked himself a simple question. Aren't the radio waves coming out of the local be-bop-hip-hop radio show actually a source of energy? So he worked up the math... built a small converter... collected these radio waves... converted them and now runs a light bulb off the energy source. Whole revolution is just around the corner to transfer energy in a more efficient manner... its a way to solve our funcky grid system that needs upgrading and solve the growing energy needs of countries like India. We will not look back for old solutions, but forward to new ones. Solar - wind - tides - nuclear - hydro carbons - etc are 50 year old technology solutions... they will not be the leaders of the next 25-50 years or the solutions that are about to show up. Electricity will remain, but its sources will change and its daily use will be greatly expanded. You ready for the electric car to get you down to Key West? It has started already... along with a new 25 year cycle of innovations.