LaserMotive lights up first product — transmitting power over fiber with lasers

The system uses lasers to convert electricity into light for transmission over fiber optic cables. On the other end, a photovoltaic receiver converts the light back into electricity.

LaserMotive, a company known for using lasers to transmit power through the air, is expanding to a new medium: fiber-optic cables. The company, based south of Seattle in Kent., Wash., this morning announced the first in a new line of products that will use lasers to transmit power over fiber-optic cables without a traditional electrical… Read More…

Clarian trumps Bill Gates with rotary-piston hybrid battery

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Bill Gates and inventors connected to Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures made headlines two years ago with a patent application for an electromagnetic engine. Now a Seattle-based company, Clarian Labs, says it has developed a compact, electromagnetic hybrid battery  based on a rotary piston that can generate twice as much power as the one proposed by… Read More…