/tech/ - Technology

>>544100

Microwave RF can't carry a lot of data. It could maybe work for some sort of irc-type thing, but forget about hosting something like an imageboard on it.

>>544100

There's been like 400 attempts from |<-R@D Cyberpunks to do that. (AirChat, et.al.)

It's called "Wifi adhoc networks"

>>544100

>>545424

Microwaves can be used to transmit power wirelessly, its been demonstrated many times before in the past in various experiments and is said that microwave radiation can transmit significant amounts of power while being relatively harmless to people as its too far spread out instead of trapped like in a microwave oven

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power_transfer

its high-school physics actually

radio waves always generate a small amount of power at the receiving end

>>547195

That's very nice, but power is not the same as data.

>>547195

While this is true, there is a reason why wireless power hasn't been adopted. If you're sending wireless power, you are now sending microwaves through the air at a high enough power to induce a usable current. As someone who's worked with radars, you do not want to get caught in the path of high energy RF microwaves like that. Any people or animals that wander into the path of that microwave beam will be cooked alive, and any electronics that get in its path will be damaged. It is, after all, a microwave beam.