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- wired4u, on 10/10/2007, -10/+225+1 for cancer
- hockyfight, on 10/10/2007, -0/+116Didnt Tesla develop something like this 50 something years ago?
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -3/+110Well I'm off to start a new mag... "UnWired".
- gforce42, on 10/10/2007, -10/+72Stop your LIES, the earth isn't even that OLD
- flygirl62, on 10/10/2007, -1/+54Tesla was an awesome genius and it always makes my blood boil when I see that *everyone* knows Edison's name and very few know Tesla's.
If Edison had his way, we'd be using DC today and we'd need a power station every few miles.
He may have made the first *practical* light bulb, but the only way to get decent power to it is the Tesla system (which is pretty much the system we use to this day), that Edison did everything he could to undermine. - JackCrow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+39I think it was about 100 years ago with the construction of Wardenclyffe Tower. Though I don't know how well it worked. I remember reading that there were economic problems during it's construction and it was never completed.
- tuntcickle, on 10/10/2007, -2/+40can i still take baths?
- thoughttrain, on 10/10/2007, -5/+38Tesla invented EVERYTHING. haha
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+30Tesla was one radical guy
- barbobot, on 10/10/2007, -7/+35From a 1996 report put out by the National Research Council.
Based on a comprehensive evaluation of published studies relating to the effects of power frequency electric and magnetic fields on cells, tissues, and organisms (including humans), the conclusion of the committee is that the current body of evidence does not show that exposure to these fields presents a human-health hazard. Specifically, no conclusive and consistent evidence shows that exposures to residential electric and magnetic fields produce cancer, adverse neurobehavioral effects, or reproductive and developmental effects [8].
http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/emf.html
Seriously, the idea that cell phones/power lines/anything with an EMF causes cancer is just fringe and undermines the science itself. - vbellian, on 10/10/2007, -3/+31Is it safe living in a magnetic field? Are you kidding? How the ***** do you think a compass works!?
- swight, on 10/10/2007, -2/+29Didn't MIT demo this 3+ months ago? I can see digg getting it that late, but wired. tut. tut.
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+24If you look closely you'll see there are wires, they get photoshopped out of most pictures but you can still see traces of them in some.
- citizenerased42, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22Whats really sad is that more people recognize the Tesla coil as that thing in command and conquer that zaps people than as a revolutionary scientist....
- 2800cc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22In short: yes. Yes he did, and he's not going to apologize to you or anyone else for it. I wish someone knowledgeable would kindly inform us what the difference between the two technologies is.
- dirtyhipster, on 10/10/2007, -5/+25Your obviously biased for electrical wires.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/10/2007, -4/+23No. You can't even touch yourself at night.
- diggalf, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21Is there good cancer?
- namuh, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20Teslas dream come true. He developed this technology way back in the day. Only when the power companies can turn a huge profit from it will it become widespread. Back then, they couldn't put a meter on it to measure consumpton so it was a no go. They then pulled Teslas funding. Cool huh?
- WaterDragon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17There was once a man named Tesla, who discovered and demonstrated a way to transmit huge amounts of electricity over vast distances safely, without using any wires.
Unfortunately, one of his benefactors/supporters at the time, a certain millionaire (J.P. Morgan?), had a lot of money invested in copper mines -- so he did everything to destroy Tesla and his credibility, and left that brilliant and innovative scientist-inventor penniless and destitute.
It seems that fat bastard wanted to wire the entire world with copper wire, to carry electricity, thus making (stealing) lots of money for himself. So he manipulated things to destroy Tesla's new wireless electricity technology.
It is likely that many other great scientific discoveries have been similarly suppressed and crushed by other fat, manipulative, lying millionaire-thieves like that. There is certainly no reason to think otherwise!
So now, some new guys are going to claim they invented something so new and awesome, and the rich bastards who own the media and the universities just might promote it. After all, it is only a sixty watt bulb, at short range...so it doesn't threaten any of their ill-gotten fortunes. - MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17He asks how safe it is living in a magnetic field?...
We live on earth. The entire planet generates a magnetic field.
Cancer Risk? hope not! - asteron, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19From the article: "Rather than send out electromagnetic waves, it fills the space around it with a magnetic field oscillating at a particular frequency."
Ohh I see... these arent "electromagnetic waves", merely "oscillating magnetic fields". And instead of "sending them out" it "fills the space around it". Let me assure you that those are entirely different. - crazybugger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17What Nikola Tesla did was total wireless electricity. He planned free wireless electricity for whole of humanity with just 5 towers placed around the globe.
http://www.braincourse.com/wirelessa.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla - fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -3/+19A PONY!!!!!!!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15i'm afraid tesla beat you all to the punch with this one
- Andronicus1717, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16Physics?
- mrASSMAN, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Well at least if we all had DC power, we wouldn't need big power adapters for our electronics.
but seriously, Tesla is my hero. - tpaine, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14An efficient battery with the ability to store a massive amount of energy for long periods of time is far more interesting to me. Something like that would be revolutionary and more likely to be cancer free.
- Gunite, on 10/10/2007, -4/+16Sourcing quackwatch.com immediately reduces your credibility to 0. You're not familiar with their modus operandi implying you're an arm chair researcher (or an idiot), probably with skewed motivation - perhaps looking for justification for personal habits. Well I'll be just as lazy and site an article from mercola.com:
"Dr. David Carpenter, Dean at the School of Public Health, State University of New York believes it is likely that up to 30% of all childhood cancers come from exposure to EMFs. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) warns "There is reason for concern" and advises prudent avoidance".
Martin Halper, the EPA's Director of Analysis and Support says "I have never seen a set of epidemiological studies that remotely approached the weight of evidence that we're seeing with EMFs. Clearly there is something here."
In November 1989, the Department of Energy reported that "It has now become generally accepted that there are, indeed, biological effects due to field exposure." - ldkronos, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12The Tesla coil was a scientist?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Reverse the polarity?
- J57466, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11While Edison may have "made" a light bulb that used DC current, Tesla made the first florescent bulb AND had one of his labs rigged up to power them wirelessly.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12You are WAYY too rational for the digg crowd. Where'd you come from?
- mrASSMAN, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10The good cancer is when your cancer gets cancer and dies.
- inigomntoya, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Sheesh - what? Did you invest in copper or something? Live in the now! [/sarcasm]
- swight, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8AND, lastly, for the mega geek, check out the MIT paper.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/317/5834/83 - ajbalash, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Don't bring your Maxwell's Equations and higher-learning here, good sir! I detest your post for it's scholarly merit and sensibility.
- swight, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Oh, and using an entirely different technology, Powercast will actually have products out in late 2007.
http://www.powercastco.com/ - lndmn01, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10WEE, they invented inductance... Oh, wait. So now your whole house can be a power transformer, good thing there are no health problems associated with those...
- Akronos, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Apparently they never realized that the Earth itself has huge magnetic fields around it. Without them, we would be killed by the sun's radiation.
- Coded1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8If the whole earth was a cancer risk would be ever really be able to tell? And if so then, ummm what could we do about it?
- BROTHERD69, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Nikola Tesla invented this 100 years ago. how are we one step closer?. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
- mrASSMAN, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8You already live in a magnetic field. It's called earth.
- HappyScrappy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Look at that, it's MIT taking credit for an old invention (this time 100 years old) again. They have an active press department.
Recently they also invented injecting alcohol into gas engines to cool the charge (which GM shipped in the 60s).
MIT also extoled the virtues of lean-burn swirl combustion in Otto cycle engines, which the Japanese started working on in the 80s.
They now take credit for inductive charging, which GM used on the EV1 in the 90s, and is in electric toothbrushes in homes around the world.
It's time for MIT to stop creating press releases about old inventions they are mining and reintroducing. And it's time for "tech reporters" to stop falling for 100 year old things as new. - meace1234, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9So doc, when I turn on my laptop, i notice that my eyes get brighter....and when I turn on the washing machine....holy crap.....
- WaterDragon, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8FTA: "I wonder how safe living in a magnetic field is?"
Oops...sorry about your hard drives!
Was all that data really so important? - supersaw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Tesla would have made this much more mainstream half a century ago if edison didnt ***** with him
- mrASSMAN, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Good thing EMF sensitivity is *****!
- diggedy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Does this mean we're 1-step closer to some Darwin award recipient getting wirelessly electrocuted?
- ajbalash, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4BRB while I retake college physics. Not inductance--wtf do you think it is?
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