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didntknowyoulast Saturday at 12:34 PM4 repliesview on HN

curious, so if you build a "wall" of these, it would use up the wiress energy in the air so will absorb the excess waves around you?


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orbital-decaylast Saturday at 2:23 PM

Of course. Ambient radiation is a viable power source for distributed sensor networks and similar low-power stuff.

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

cluckindanlast Saturday at 5:49 PM

An array of these would also allow you to better discover individual sources in a room with lots of devices.

thenthenthenlast Saturday at 1:36 PM

Depends if you are standing infront or behind the wall ;)