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didntknowyou
174 days ago
curious, so if you build a "wall" of these, it would use up the wiress energy in the air so will absorb the excess waves around you?
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orbital-decay
174 days ago
Of course. Ambient radiation is a viable power source for distributed sensor networks and similar low-power stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_harvesting
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cluckindan
174 days ago
An array of these would also allow you to better discover individual sources in a room with lots of devices.
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thenthenthen
174 days ago
Depends if you are standing infront or behind the wall ;)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_harvesting