Microwaves are broadcast from, say, New York, to a satellite orbiting over Omaha, then bounced to Los Angeles.
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To do this, they need materials that absorb microwaves in an extremely narrow range.
The sensors pick up the microwaves with an antenna and convert the signal into electrical energy.
If they slow morning traffic, it shouldn't be beyond Starbucks' capabilities to get microwaves that work faster.
Unfortunately, no one is really sure what causes materials to absorb microwaves over too wide a frequency.
The snag is that microwaves can only penetrate the ground in dry areas, because water absorbs them.
The Esa satellite's radiometer works by measuring the natural emission of microwaves coming up off the planet's surface.
The design principles that make the cloak work in microwaves would be difficult to implement at optical wavelengths.
Man-made objects buried under shifting sands, such as pipes or water aqueducts, are particularly good at reflecting microwaves.
At the moment, the earth-observation satellites which employ microwaves generally use short-wavelength radiation, because this provides more detailed images.
He pumps the ground full of microwaves, to see what gets reflected back.
This was true for TVs, microwaves, personal computers and cell phones, and it was also true for the automobile itself.
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"Last night in my estate I saw young people wearing hoodies and masks, laughing, carrying microwaves and televisions, " she said.
Other researchers, in America and Japan, are also looking at using lasers rather than microwaves to transmit power through the atmosphere.
This summer, Stephen Sweeney and his colleagues will test a laser that would do the job which Asimov assigned to microwaves.
But microwaves are important in many applications, principally telecommunications and radar, and improved versions of cloaking could vastly improve microwave performance.
They used microwaves to nudge the anti-atoms, to see if they behave when nudged like mirror images of ordinary hydrogen atoms.
The technique works by focusing high-powered microwaves on plant-based material, transforming the tough cellulose molecules of the plant matter into volatile gases.
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These electrons deflect a small proportion, about 1%, of the background microwaves.
Except in extreme cases, voltage dips or swells do not affect electrical equipment typically used in homes like refrigerators or ovens or microwaves.
He sent the Soviets thousands of VCRs, microwaves, TVs, portable tape players and other electronics goods from his Manhattan retail store, Joy-Lud Co.
"What microwave radiation does in most simplistic terms is similar to what happens to food in microwaves, essentially cooking the brain, " Black said.
So designers are seeing under-the-counter microwaves, dishwashers set into drawers that match existing cabinetry, and in-cabinet coffee makers with their own water lines installed.
We watch videos of seemingly normal people pummel one another in animalistic feeding frenzies just to get their hands on phones, socks and microwaves.
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This can be extremely helpful when moving the disabled person from the wheelchair to a couch, and opening things such as doors and microwaves.
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Enough radiation escapes to allow the phone to communicate with the network, but the rest bathes the inside of the carriage with bouncing microwaves.
Today Haier sells 250 models of home appliances, from dishwashers to microwaves, in big retailers like Wal-Mart and Costco and over 1, 000 appliance dealers.
From its base in Qingdao, white-goods manufacturer Haier has become a hugely successful Chinese multinational, hawking fridges, microwaves and washing machines from Auckland to Accra.
They have measured microwaves as they warped around the sun, studied variations in the orbit of Mercury, and bounced signals off the Moon and Mars.
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