[Robotgroup] Cool NASA News

[Clendon Gibson]

No.

http://www.splashpower.com/

is completely given over to marketing style warm fuzzy language. It is not in there interest to explain the efficiency so I figure they will only own up under pressure. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splashpower

I suppose I could see 96% if there are really good EM pathways in the devices. Otherwise, "yeah right!' seems to be the correct response. 

Plug it in. Save energy. Choose function over form.

----- Original Message ----
From: Vern Graner <vern at txis.com>
To: The Robot Group Mailing List <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 1:09:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] Cool NASA News

Clendon Gibson wrote:
 > Just out of curiosity, how efficient are these recharge pads
 > supposed to be? It seems to me like they would throw away
 > some percent of the energy just because of the antenna/coil
 > shape.

Not sure.. I see there's at least one company that has announced a 
commercial device based on that technology:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2861987.stm

Maybe they would be a good resource to discover that..?

:)

Vern

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