The Power of Millimeter Waves
Edison’s bulb radiates power around 500,000 GHz, which is convenient, because that’s in the frequency range our eyes can see. The downside: light doesn’t penetrate clothes, walls, fog, smoke, foliage, and dirt.
Edison’s bulb radiates power around 500,000 GHz, which is convenient, because that’s in the frequency range our eyes can see. The downside: light doesn’t penetrate clothes, walls, fog, smoke, foliage, and dirt.
We built what became the four bombs; they hijacked them. We supplied the engineers, turbines and wings; they supplied suicidal fanatics and cardboard cutters. The Capitol was saved, apparently, because our civilians overwhelmed their conscripts in hand-to-hand combat on one of the planes.
Yesterday’s desk had its stand-alone PC. Today’s factory floor is still dominated by the stand-alone PLC — the “programmable logic controller,” a computer that controls a machine.
The Pentium is all brain, no muscle. The powerchip is all muscle, no brain. Connect them up, and you get intelligent power, highly ordered power — digital power.
Power is the planet’s worst enemy. The fossil fuel combustion engines that provide most of our transportation and generate most of our electricity release trace pollutants into the air, combine the air’s own nitrogen and oxygen to form smog, and convert carbon into atmospheric carbon dioxide that warms the whole plant. Or that, at least,…
The company owns no Nobel-Prize-worthy science, and isn’t likely to be developing any. It’s headquartered in Blue Bell, PA, no Silicon Valley. It’s products begin with one of the most reviled materials in widespread use today.