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Re: witricity legality?
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Originally Posted by 1885.Blake View Post

Over macroscopic distances all EM fields obey those equations.

Blake
To play the devils advocate I believe that the key word here is macroscopic. I've been doing my best to research what the M.I.T. team has done and it seems that the entire goal of the project is the tap into field before it propagates. Although there is little regarding the topic out in the public domain I believe the concept behind witricity is this. If you look at a graphical representation of an EM wave you will notice that it consists of electrical and magnetic fields at right angles to each other as predicted by Maxwell's equations. If during the first quarter was a device were to tap into the magnetic field converting its energy back into an electrical current (which would have to occur during the first quarter wave as noted by researchers) then the field would not propagate nearly as far simply because much of its energy is being picked up by the second coil.

This may be complete nonsense; I'm only a teenager and will probably be flame, but so be it. In a few weeks I'll be traveling to M.I.T.'s prefrosh weekend so I'll attempt to arrange a meeting with the professor who developed the concept and gain a better understanding in that way.