as if there wasn't enough radiation flying around our heads already!

Another article that caught my eye today was about a project that the busy people at MIT are working on now, that if they can get it to work, promises to eliminate the need for all wires in the house, not merely your Internet and mouse cables like it is now, but all power cables as well. They plan to do this by "exploiting (sic) the resonance of electromagnetic waves". Resonance is the "phenomenon that causes an object to vibrate when energy of a certain frequency is applied". So very much in the the way the super mega subwoofer you have hidden behind the TV in your lounge room, softly massages your arse while you're seated on the other side of the room watching a firefight, energy will be pulsing around (through) your skull and between your legs in order to never again need to dock your ipod or macbook ever again.

While I can fully see the benefits of such a system, I must add that there could be quite a few problems with this theory that are not currently apparent. How much more power would be consumed because mobile devices will then always be left on charge? Will power be pulsing out at all times waiting to be received, leading to greater waste? And this leads on to other questions about security of your home power system. Will neighbours or passers by be able to jack into your system and increase your power bill, and perhaps subsidise their expenses involved in keeping their high cost hydroponic growing room? I'm sure that these will all be questions raised before this type of thing is ever released, and I'm sure that many other people will have other concerns, eg. isn't the world's sperm rate low enough already without even needing the switch the microwave to high?

Anyway, read about it here...

UPDATE - I really should have read the whole article before posting about it, since a couple of my concerns were raised in it, though I still don't quite understand how the antenna will be able to reabsorb all of the energy (physics way above my head I suppose). I still stand by my comments about fried testicles. I don't think that our level of science quite understands the effects of radiation yet, there could be a factor to radiation that we don't even have sensors for yet, and this is what's leading to the large amount of empirical evidence linking electromagnetic radiation to cancer (probably should have a quote here, but don't think I need one cos we've all heard about it).