Georgia Tech has a new antenna that harvests energy from the air and uses it to power devices. “There is a large amount of electromagnetic energy all around us, but nobody has been able to tap into it,” says a researcher. Until now that is.
Amazingly, they print the antennas using inkjet printers and flexible polymers.
Imagine if this could be done at grid scale.
<a href="http://homelessonthehighdesert.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/the-birth-of-cascadia/" The Birth of Cascadia …Cascadia is a place apart, neither of the Pacific continent nor of North “America” but built upon the rumble resulting of the collision of the two. A unique place with species found nowhere else in the world, a place where our rivers drain to sea through the northern hemisphere’s only temperate rainforest.
In Ernest Callenbach’s 1975 novel Ecotopia, it was the advent of local and home produced rooftop solar collectors that led to the Pacific Northwest’s independence of not only fossil fuels but of the Corporate monster the “United States” has/had become. No more bailouts for the international bankers and insurers, no more wars on Israels’ behalf, no more institutionalized racism and class warfare to the benefit of the politicians, preachers and east coast elite…
There is nothing east of the Rocky Mountians, nor south of the Alvord Desert, we need. You’re either with us, or against us. Whose side are you on?