Re: [TCML] Is a TC reversible?

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Didn't Grey Leyh have a little cart at one of the Maker Faires powered 
remotely by a TC?
I can't find it on a quick search.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jonathan Peakall
On 5/24/2013 5:19 AM, Brian Hall wrote:
> There is a company near me that owns many recent patents on the wireless 
> transmission of electricity, which has been featured in Popular Science 
> and in at least one TED talk on youtube:
>
> http://www.witricity.com/
>
> While their methods and patents do work, the devices of course follow the 
> inverse square law of loss of power over distance, and while they use 
> electromagnetic resonance, from what I gather, they are not that much like 
> the Tesla coils discussed on this list.  From what I gather over the 
> years, it seems like this list is for making 'leaky' air core resonant 
> transformers that produce those lovely streamers and sparks that are a joy 
> to watch and behold, and not really for discussion of the wireless 
> transmission of power - and potentially information, which was Tesla's 
> original intent for the types of coils we make.  We think coils that leak 
> out of their toploads look quite pretty and tend to keep the discussions 
> around that, and the various ways to achieve that effect.

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