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		Wowfunhappy on Jan 31, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Converting Wi-Fi signals to electricity with new 2... Can't you just do this with tinfoil?

HashHishBang on Jan 31, 2019 [–]

You can make a Faraday cage out of a lot of stuff but I doubt you could get much in the way of power out of it. Granted you can't get much out of this either but it's measurable.

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