Rectennas

paul h

18th October 2007 - 12:00 AM

Anyone here done anything in this Field ?

http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy03osti/33263.pdf

paul h

18th October 2007 - 09:18 PM

Well OK has anyone ever even heard of rectennas.
I saw this (and other pages like it) about 6 months ago and was riveted. I have been wondering if one could build battery charging cell array using this technology, at first I was interested in converting radio waves (lord knows there are plenty of those) but if this would work with almost any EM radiation,, humm ???? Unlike photo cell these would work 24 hours a day

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