Witricity may be be of the names of the light up a lamp few hundred watts a few hundred meters away technology from MIT. I think it is called resonance coupled inductive electricity (RCIE).

The temperature profiles as well as material flows at a refineries catalytic reformer could be modified without moving parts with RCIE, if they get 5 or 10 percent better, thats a whole bunch of cheaper fuel. I think I have read that variations on "packing trays" basically places at a catalytic reformer where different masses of hydrocarbons condense as liquids to be piped away make 3 to 5 pct difference so being able to reroute material flows without piping might be even better.

Although RCIE may be only partially efficient, the thermal warming from the electricity at a distance process actually contributes to the process.

Its possible then that packing trays, like each "bubble cap" could be individually addressed, without moving parts, to move the gases n fluids around. Silicon around a unique high temperature metal antenna could creating a warming element, or with shape memory metal a bubblecaplifter or stationaryizer. The entire catalytic reformer at a refinery becomes an addressable 3d system.

It might even be possible to cover or uncover a catalyst with a witricity bubblecap, kind of like a foodservice person lifting a presentation lid on a platter, to do time or chemistry specific catalysis witout the catalyst putting up with the general environment
-- beanangel, May 11 2012

"witricity": looks like it involves wiggling a magnetic field around... so how does that translate into reforming HC's ?
-- FlyingToaster, May 11 2012


Can we have a new category?

technology: gobbledygook
-- UnaBubba, May 11 2012


Don't be makin fun of Beanie now, there's gold nuggets in some of that gook.
I've no idea how to process them yet of course but I suspect the fault for that lies with me and not him.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, May 11 2012


There's more gold dissolved in seawater than we'll find on land, too. That doesn't mean it's readily apparent, accessible, extractable or viable to remove.

Reading a [bean] idea is like trying to understand the Middle East Peace process after it's been made into a sort of Mediterranean-sized alphabet soup, translated into English from the original Cantonese, via Swedish.
-- UnaBubba, May 11 2012


It's the word salad defense against MFDs.
-- ldischler, May 11 2012



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