{"id":813,"date":"2007-06-12T13:55:46","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T08:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/06\/12\/witricity-transmitting-electricity-wirelessly\/"},"modified":"2007-06-12T13:55:46","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T08:25:46","slug":"witricity-transmitting-electricity-wirelessly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/06\/12\/witricity-transmitting-electricity-wirelessly\/","title":{"rendered":"WiTricity: Transmitting Electricity Wirelessly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ack:- Vishal Shah<\/p>\n<p>In an experiment revealed last week, a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology&#8217;s departments of Physics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies lit a 60-watt light bulb from a power source seven feet away with no physical connection between the power source and the bulb. <\/p>\n<p>The researchers employed two magnetic coils, 20 inches in diameter, designed to resonate together. The team labeled the concept WiTricity, for wireless electricity. <\/p>\n<p>According to the researchers, power levels more than sufficient to run a laptop can be efficiently transferred over room-sized distances even when objects completely obstruct the line-of-sight between the power source and appliance. &#8220;As long as the laptop is in a room equipped with a source of such wireless power, it would charge automatically, without having to be plugged in,&#8221; one of the researchers, MIT physics professor Peter Fisher, said in a statement. &#8220;In fact, it would not even need a battery to operate inside of such a room.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>If [or should it be when] commercialized, the researchers foresee, WiTricity could cut society&#8217;s dependence on those heavy and expensive batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ack:- Vishal Shah In an experiment revealed last week, a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology&#8217;s departments of Physics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies lit a 60-watt light bulb from a power source seven feet away with no physical connection between the power source and the bulb. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-inventions-discoveries","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}