Re: [Vo]:em waves and pocket calculators/was Witricity scheme

2007-06-10 Thread Harry Veeder
On 9/6/2007 9:33 PM, Robin van Spaandonk wrote: In reply to Harry Veeder's message of Sat, 09 Jun 2007 22:07:05 -0500: Hi, [snip] Many years ago, before ipods and mp3 players, I had a sony walkman with a radio turner. I found that if a pocket calculator were switched on and placed on top

Re: [Vo]:em waves and pocket calculators/was Witricity scheme

2007-06-10 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Harry Veeder's message of Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:16:47 -0500: Hi, [snip] Calculators have their own inbuilt clock which is a quartz oscillator, and also divider circuits, so they produce a number of radio frequencies. If the Walkman is tuned to a frequency close to one of those

[Vo]:em waves and pocket calculators/was Witricity scheme

2007-06-09 Thread Harry Veeder
On 9/6/2007 7:31 PM, John Berry wrote: Ah, no. Electrons in wires generally move far far far too slow to produce synchrotron or cyclotron radiation at a radiofrequency and while I'm not 100% sure I believe that a uniform current in all parts of the loop would remove this effect. DC is still DC if

Re: [Vo]:em waves and pocket calculators/was Witricity scheme

2007-06-09 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Harry Veeder's message of Sat, 09 Jun 2007 22:07:05 -0500: Hi, [snip] Many years ago, before ipods and mp3 players, I had a sony walkman with a radio turner. I found that if a pocket calculator were switched on and placed on top of the walkman I could move the tuner's dial to