This little cell phone article has far reaching implications

[ThomWV]

Energy from the air - and no, this is not another perpetual motion machine idea. Here's the link and a couple of paragraphs to give you an idea what's going on.

Link: http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/143945

"Prototype Nokia phone recharges without wires

Pardon the cliche, but it's one of the holiest of Holy Grails of technology: Wireless power. And while early lab experiments have been able to "beam" electricity a few feet to power a light bulb, the day when our laptops and cell phones can charge without having to plug them in to a wall socket still seems decades in the future.

Nokia, however, has taken another baby step in that direction with the invention of a cell phone that recharges itself using a unique system: It harvests ambient radio waves from the air, and turns that energy into usable power. Enough, at least, to keep a cell phone from running out of juice.

While "traditional" (if there is such a thing) wireless power systems are specifically designed with a transmitter and receiver in mind, Nokia's system isn't finicky about where it gets its wireless waves. TV, radio, other mobile phone systems -- all of this stuff just bounces around the air and most of it is wasted, absorbed into the environment or scattered into the ether*. Nokia picks up all the bits and pieces of these waves and uses the collected electromagnetic energy to create electrical current, then uses that to recharge the phone's battery. A huge range of frequencies can be utilized by the system (there's no other way, really, as the energy in any given wave is infinitesimal). It's the same idea that Tesla was exploring 100 years ago, just on a tiny scale."


* What sort of Editor would have allowed this archaic word to remain in the article knowing full well that that it refers to a concept as outdated as home alchemy and not one reader in 100 would know what it means (or meant)? Its almost like reverse newspeak but with the same effect, to lull us into deeper ignorance.