Don't you just hate it when someone resurrects an old thread?
There was a colloquium on Broadcast Power at Brookhaven Lab a couple of days ago. It works over short distances as long as the power demands aren't great and the transmitter and receiver are tuned to exactly the same resonance frequency. It could be useful for charging cell phones or laptops in a room. Why wasn't it thought of before? The researcher says if he had tried this 15 years ago, he would have ignored it a a useless technological trick. Now, we are so dependent on rechargeable batteries that it might have some applications.
I saw the speaker the day before the talk having a friend take his picture in front of Tesla's lab in Shoreham.
You really only need three things: WD-40, Duct Tape, and a pointy stick. If it's supposed to move and doesn't, use the WD-40. If it moves and isn't supposed to, use the Duct Tape. If you want it to move and it doesn't want to, use the pointy stick. The rest of life is easy.