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by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 12. 9.07
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2007-12-09_092744.jpgThe New York Times does its annual "year in ideas" edition, but faithful TH readers will have seen many of them here first, (often two years ago) including the Magenn air rotor , ecopod coffins, Kholsa on biofuels, Shigeru Ban's cardboard bridge, honeycomb vase, lightning harvesting, bloomframe balcony, smog eating cement vegan sex wave energy and wireless energy Whew. ::New York Times

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Wireless energy is kind of a dumb idea, if I understand it correctly. It seems that the transfer of energy would be pretty inefficient. Also, wouldn't this waste a lot of electricity, because you lose the ability to "unplug" devices?

It just seems like more of a novelty than a practical idea.

jump to top Ross says:

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green at all no pwer at all no wind at all
no solar at all no green at all

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