Chiche, on pète les câbles !

 

Ceux qui y ont fait leurs études ont reconnu dans le splendide logo d’en-tête et dans la devise Fiat Lux, l’identification de l’une des écoles de la prestigieuse Université Yale (et non de Yale), à New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Et pourtant, ce n’est pas là-bas, mais chez la concurrence, au MIT (Massachussets Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachussets, USA) que l’on a réussi l’exploit incroyable, inouï, inimaginable de transporter de l’électricité sans câble !…Vous pouvez vous frotter les yeux, c’est vrai. Correspondance privée du Docteur Mel pour Mosalyo . Yes, of course, in english. Is there any problem ?

MIT Demonstrates “Wireless Electricity”

Along with LPs, audio tape, and dial-up modems, children of the future might wonder what a “power cord” was. A team of researchers from MIT has demonstrated such a future, when they were recently able to light a 60-watt light bulb from an unconnected source about seven feet away.

The ability to direct and transmit electrical power through the air, without wires, took a further step from the theoretical to the practical in June when a group of MIT researchers demonstrated their “WiTricity” concept.

Wireless transmission of electricity has been understood in theory since the work of Nikolai Tesla in the 19th Century. Safe, efficient and cost-effective wireless electricity could hold countless beenfits, from eliminating the need to install costly copper wiring to lowered reliance on batteries for small devices.

Dubbed “WiTricity,” as in “wireless electricity,” the research has been published in the June 7 issue of Science Express, an online publication of the esteemed journal, Science.

Team leader Professor Marin Soljacic describes the “eureka” moment as one he experienced in his pajamas a few years ago. He was looking at his cell phone on the kitchen counter. “It was probably the sixth time that month that I was awakened by my cell phone beeping to let me know that I had forgotten to charge it,” he said in a statement. “It occurred to me that it would be so great if the thing took care of its own charge.

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Dr Mel