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What the heck is “NanoCrystal Electricity?” Will it “Magically Power Everything” and “pay out 78 times your money?”

Checking out the latest wireless electricity teaser from Michael Robinson's Nova-X Report

By Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe, January 17, 2018

Michael Robinson this week is pitching his Nova-X Report with a promise that “we’re about to witness one of the most massive rollouts in history” as a new “magic electricity” ends the days of wires and plugs and dead batteries and makes us all filthy, stinkin’ rich.

So what the heck is he talking about? The promise is large and glorious, and designed, of course, to get you to hurry up and subscribe to Nova-X Report (which is his “entry level” report, $39/year currently) … and that promise incites daydreaming, with thoughts of cars that charge wirelessly, without big bulky high-voltage plugs… blenders that make you margaritas on the beach… coffeemakers that work inside your car.

That’s all in the service of picturing a world in which you own (a piece of) the core technology that makes wireless charging possible… which feels glorious and exciting. So let’s sample a few clues from the ad and see if we can name this stock for you, shall we? Here’s some of Robinson’s pitch:

“Now is the time to take this new energy VERY SERIOUSLY.

“As we speak, this tiny Silicon Valley firm is rushing to get their NanoCrystal Electricity technology fully adopted.

“They already have the three biggest multi-national manufacturer of electronics and chips on notice…

“Including Dialog Semiconductor, which has ponied up $25 million as a partner.

“If that isn’t a promise that this is going to happen any day now, nothing is.

“But it gets even more exciting.

“The company just announced they are currently working on integrating their remarkable technology with 56 other tech firms.

“This is just the beginning of a massive roll-out.”

Sounds pretty exciting… and with the Consumer Electronics Show getting lots of headlines, we can all imagine the cool new things that could be powered by wireless electricity. More clues?

“This tiny firm is about to have a sales bonanza!

“I added up the cash major industries are targeting for NanoCrystal Electricity. This includes electronic devices, electric cars, medical, military, and retail.

“I then estimated that this company locks-in a minimum of 20% of it all…

“For over $5 billion in revenue potential over the next couple years.

“Since this company is only three years old with only $4 million in sales so far, that translates into a 125,091% increase in revenues…”

That’s hooey, of course — anyone who starts out with a massive number for sales in a major industry and then says, “if this tiny company takes ‘just’ 20% of that market, the numbers will be astronomical!” is just using shock-and-awe math. Taking even 1% of a giant industry with a new technology is a gargantuan accomplishment, so take that with a huge grain of salt.

But, of course, “downplay” isn’t in Robinson’s vocabulary:

“We know they’re the leader in a revolutionary new technology…

“They should trade at a giant premium…

“They should have high operating margins (own the IP, outsources the heavy lifting)…

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“Reasonably, half the company profits should drop into the stock price…

“Meaning this stock could pay out 78 times your money.

“And not over the next decade – over the next two to three years.”

So that’s the bold, headline promise: $1,000 to $78,000 in three years. Something to keep track of when we come back and look at this teaser in the future.

Why is all of this supposed to be happening now? What’s the urgency? Robinson says there’s an imminent catalyst:

“A green light on their NanoCrystal Electricity is expected any day now from the FCC.”

OK, so I’ll spare you my look at all the rest of the clues… because I need to jump in here and say that’s a little disingenuous. This ad just started running (as far as we can tell, at least) this week… and the ad is dated “January 2018” … but Energous (WATT) actually got their first FCC approval for an over-the-air transmitter at the end of December.

So yes, the Thinkolator identified that Robinson here is touting Energous (WATT), the wireless charging startup that’s been the subject of wildly overpromising hype-filled newsletter ads since it showed off its first prototype “over the air” charging system at the Consumer Electronics Show three years ago.

And there’s a reason for the excitement, of course — by all accounts, the technology is real, and consumers really do want to be able to charge their devices without plugging them in. After those two basic realities are covered, though, the actual investment prospect and product development timelines become radically more complicated.

Partly that’s because the company has a well-documented history over overpromising on its development timeline… and pundits and newsletters have loaded up on that overpromising, magnifying the impact on the stock price. The last time I had anything to do with Energous stock I was short the shares for a little while in the Summer of 2016, when a couple newsletters were loudly promising that Apple was on the verge of announcing that they would use Energous’ WattUp wireless charging in the iPhone 7 (which was, of course, a patently ridiculous claim).

Now, of course, the story has changed a little bit, because Energous has gotten perhaps the first really good news they’ve had since they made the partnership deal with Dialog semiconductor back in 2016 and added to it last Summer. They announced in late December that the FCC has certified its first “over the air” charging transmitter. Here’s part of that press release:

“The company’s WattUp Mid Field transmitter can deliver power via radio frequency (RF) energy to WattUp-enabled electronic devices at a distance of up to three feet. As the only technology that can do both contact-based and non-contact-based wireless charging, as well as charge multiple devices at once, WattUp is highly scalable and automatically charges devices, as needed, until they are topped off. While older charging technologies allow for only contact-based charging, Energous is the only company to achieve Wireless Charging 2.0 to-date, which is the ability to charge devices both at contact (including fast charging large battery devices such as smartphones and tablets), as well as power-at-a-distance. Similar to WiFi, the WattUp ecosystem ensures interoperability between receivers and transmitters, regardless of the manufacturer, making the entire ecosystem flexible and accessible for consumers and manufacturing partners….

“This represents the first time FCC equipment certification has been awarded to any device that charges wirelessly at a distance, and operates under Part 18 of the FCC’s rules. The FCC’s Part 18 rules permit higher-power operations than are permitted under the Part 15 rules that have been used to approve other at a distance charging devices.”

I haven’t seen what Energous was presenting at the CES this year, but they were reportedly there (and the CEO got some press, including this video interview) and they have talked up the release of the first WattUp-enabled products, including some new hearing aids and Myant’s SKIIN smart clothing line… both of those are still using the existing “near field” charger, which is essentially a contact charger that requires you to be within a centimeter or so of the charger, much like the current Qi standard chargers (such as Apple has adopted for their first iPhones that use wireless charging, or for the Apple Watch), but the promise is that although these are contact chargers, they use the same technology as Energous’ Mid Field and eventual Far Field transmitters and will be able to receive power from those future transmitters as well. So your $80 smart underwear will be backward-compatible.

The current forecast for availability of those distance transmitters is “late this year, early in 2019,” according to the CEO in that interview, and they say they’re “more comfortable” with those projections now that the chips have been produced and they have some over-the-air certification. I’m probably a little too cynical about Energous, given the several waves of massive hype I’ve seen from and about the company… I love the idea of “charging at a distance,” and Energous certainly gets most of the press in that space (though there are other technologies, including Powercast, which also uses RF power transmission, and Ossia’s Cota), but clearly there are technical or consumer challenges or this fantastical stuff we’ve been hearing about for years would be everywhere by now.

What are the analysts expecting? Well, some of them have probably been burned before, too, from the years of “a product is right around the corner” talk, but Oppenheimer’s analyst reportedly has an estimate for $3.9 million in revenue for 2018 and “material” growth in 2019, with a “bull case scenario” of maybe generating close to $400 million in revenue by 2021. That’s a pretty different scenario than Michael Robinson’s, both envision “20% market share” but Robinson calls it a $25 billion market (with $5 billion in revenue for Energous) and the Oppenheimer analyst apparently foresees a $2 billion market (with $400 million in revenue for Energous).

On the flip side, of course, there’s also still a lot of pessimism from the short sellers — Andrew Left, in particular, has been vocal in his criticism of Energous, but there are others as well… though the FCC approval may well have generated a “short squeeze” a couple weeks ago (short data that I see is usually pretty old, shortsqueeze.com says about a third of the stock is still sold short).

I think Energous’s WattUp is still a possible technology advance in search of a breakthrough product. Rosy scenarios for WattUp require that it get some kind of critical mass building, which very likely means that at least one high-profile and high-volume product is needed, and I have no insight into what product that might be or when it might happen. I expect we’ll probably see Apple rumors for WATT again this year, too, though I think anyone expecting Apple to be the first adopter of WattUp is likely to be disappointed. Apple hasn’t been much of a risk-taker on that front, they tend to prefer to perfect proven and established technologies.

The good thing is that they are very small, with a market cap of $400 million or so, so even though their finances are rickety and they keep selling equity every time they have good news that drives the shares up (as most cash-burning companies do, wisely), and even though the insiders are steady sellers (as is typical of tech startups, where stock is a major part of compensation), there’s almost always an optimistic scenario lurking under the surface if you’re willing to take the chance on the technology and the management team.

WATT is not particularly appealing to me, and I think Michael Robinson is way out in left field with his projections in this ad, since the meaningful technology won’t even be available for purchase within a year, let alone taking 20% of the market in three years (and is a long way away from being ready for high-power applications like car charging… with even cell phones arguably being a little bit of a stretch at this point), but stock speculators are hopeful and optimistic folks… maybe this one will work out.

And Robinson throws a few extra “bonus” recommendations on the pile that are secondary plays on the huge gains he sees for Energous and for wireless charging in general, including some chipmakers and such, so he’s very likely also recommending Dialog Semiconductor (DLG in Eurpe, DLGNF OTC in the US), which fell 30% in the past month on bad news about Apple orders, and perhaps Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM), to whom they’ve also been linked in the past… WATT will not have a material impact on either of those companies’ income statements over the next year, though there is potential that Dialog will eventually get a boost, as the chip manufacturer, if Energous actually builds a very large business someday.

Sound like your cuppa tea? Excited about the possibilities? Exhausted by the hype? Let us know with a comment below.

Disclosure: I own shares of Apple, but am not invested in any of the other companies mentioned above. I will not trade in any covered stock for at least three days, per Stock Gumshoe’s trading rules.

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Hapsam
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Hapsam
January 17, 2018 3:58 pm

Just wondering if a world full of mid-field and long-field charging radio waves will end up causing cancers, cognitive disorders or just cooking my organs much like a microwave over without shields. If it causes no harm this will be an awesome development, but I think the health hiccups will take some time to resolve. (I am assuming that the charging radio waves will have a lot more energy than the radio wave spectrum cell phones use).

Investor Clouseau
Investor Clouseau
January 17, 2018 4:09 pm
Reply to  Hapsam

I often theorize about this, I’m not anti-cell phone paranoid, but I do avoid blutooth and extra, unnecessary proximity to things of that nature when possible. I’ve decided it’ll already be too late when the real feeback on the health issues shake out, and that technology is just too darn good for quality of life at this point.

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Stuart
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Stuart
January 21, 2018 8:17 pm

Quite agree, but a bit of a worry as I might have a few years left to realise the impact. Hopefully other lifestyle choices well compensate

fanfare
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fanfare
January 17, 2018 4:20 pm
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Forget about radio waves causing cancer. The wavelengths are too long to even damage/violate skin cells, let alone cause cancer. Consider that radio waves are longer (and therefore carry less energy) than visible light. Even visible light waves do not cause cancer, … it takes at least a wave as short as an Ultra Violet … and THAT can only cause cellular damage on the skin. In other words, one would have to be able to get lung cancer from spending too much time on the beach (irrespective of a metastasized skin cancer) …. before we could even begin to worry about EM wavelengths in the RF band. Also, the radio spectrum is not only below the spectrum of visible light …. it is FAR below, in terms of the energy they carry. Succinctly: RF waves come in under 30 MHz, while UV begins around 3 PHz. That’s “Mega, Giga, Tera, and finally Peta”. Get the idea?

That said, WATT seems very likely to be another “ponzi based” “dilution making” boiler room stock. Author – Well done, as always. Thanks.

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senior111
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January 17, 2018 4:52 pm
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thanks for clarifying up the RF and health issues. Are there any concerns with eating microwave cooked food?

Paul
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Paul
January 17, 2018 5:43 pm
Reply to  senior111

Electromagnetic waves (photons) interact with matter in different ways depending on wavelength. And wavelengths longer than ultraviolet can certainly damage tissues. That’s why it’s not a good idea to dry a cat in a microwave. Ultraviolet photons individually have enough energy to knock out electrons from organic molecules (e.g. skin DNA). Microwave photons sort of shake molecules to wiggle and thus heat up tissue. (The food doesn’t care how the molecules are shaken, so microwave food is no different from food heated by other methods: heat is wiggling molecules).
Radiowave and microwave photons individually carry less energy than e.g. ultraviolet or X-ray photons, but the total energy delivered is of course also proportional to the number of photons.

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Investor Clouseau
Investor Clouseau
January 17, 2018 5:52 pm
Reply to  Paul

Any input on microwaves’ supposed negative interaction with many plastics used to re-heat said food?

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enviropurelight
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enviropurelight
January 17, 2018 6:41 pm

Yes, two different issues, microwaves heat the plastic, and many plastics will give off a vapor known as BPA, bisphenol which has been said to be potential danger to our health as foods will absorb this chemical and then you eat it, not good.

mharawira
mharawira
January 21, 2018 12:41 pm

So heating in glass instead of plastic sounds like a good option. Glad I saw this one.

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frank_n_steyn
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January 18, 2018 2:45 am
Reply to  senior111

maybe not the food, but when I use a microwave I immediately leave the room it’s in.

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Rennet Namron
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January 19, 2018 7:44 pm
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Yes. It destroys the enzymes, making it less easy to digest and less nutritious, not to mention the emc waves that have an deleterious effect on your eyes and whatever. Notice how many younger kids wear glasses in this generation?

BJI
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BJI
February 18, 2018 11:31 pm
Reply to  Rennet Namron

I’m 79 and I’ve had to wear glasses since age of 12, LONG BEFORE microwave ovens!!! I have sunglasses that are 35 years old and my vision IS STILL 20/20 when wearing them and I’ve used several microwave ovens over the same 35 years!

4lllls
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4lllls
January 21, 2018 11:37 am
Reply to  senior111

Yes and especially cooked in plastic.

barry729
barry729
January 24, 2018 1:20 pm
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THERE is NO BPA in any of the plastics you might put in a microwave or an oven – the only real danger is melting the plastic on to your food, which won’t kill you, (think of all the plastic crap you chewed on as a kid like toys and straws)

What is bisphenol A?

Bisphenol A is a chemical found in polycarbonate plasticand epoxy resins.

Polycarbonate plastics are used in certain food and drink packaging and also in compact discs, computers, impact-resistant safety equipment (such as helmets and goggles), and medical devices”

Final note: if it weren’t for plastic packaging, MOST of you reading this would have died from food poisoning malnutrition, or even more likely NEVER been born at all!!!

Try to talk about subjects you actually know something about

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mosley1234
January 17, 2018 5:09 pm
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fanfare,
knowledge is power

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Rusty Brown in Canada
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Rusty Brown in Canada
January 18, 2018 10:42 am
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Thank you for the valuable clarification. Now, does this apply as well to the concern that some have expressed about passengers sitting on large banks of rechargeable batteries in electric vehicles, since the batteries are apparently under the floorboards, and might induce genetic damage by induction to those body parts closest to the batteries over a period of time?

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Jay L. Stern
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January 19, 2018 12:04 pm

Reading these comments is appalling. You people appear to have zero scientific knowledge. Even a basic, high-school class in chemistry or physics taught by a teacher who uses the “common core” method would would be useful to dispell the sort of “loo-doo” concerns expressed here.

The idea of “NanoCrystal” power is intriguing. What it means is that when certain materials are deformed and then spring back, they release the energy they acquired from the initial deformation as electricity. Thus piezoelectric igniters on appliances and lighters. In these applications, single cryrstals are used. By harnessing an array, and finding a way to deform, then release them en-masse might lead to a significant power source. Think of thermoelectric refrigerators. They rely on dissimilar metals in contact. When electricity is passed through the metals, one side becomes hot and the other side is cold. They are basically thermocouples run in reverse. By ganging enough together, a substantial cooling or heating effect can be obtained. Same with these nanocrystals: put enoguh together and the result might be adeqate to substantiate the claims. Use of radio waves to cause the deformation — at the ionic level — may be problematic. Somehow the long radio waves need to be converted to shorter wavelengths, and that isn’t normally feasible. Also, it would have to be done within some sort of shielding to prevent damage to other materials and biological tissue. If WATT can do this, then it is a GO.

Peter H Dragonas
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Peter H Dragonas
January 20, 2018 9:48 am
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Finally some common sense..use your simple logic. Physics gurus who develop a template as the first attempt to demonstrate positive generation of a form of energy( in this case using radio waves through a crystal media which has ideal properties) have seen the production of electricity. Now the mission is geared to identify how to deliver the electricity produced directly into.a mechanism that can instantlyuse it without the necessity for an intermediary conduit. Light wave,all the same length directed through a tube, filter by a crystal or other media and brought to a sharp point at the end of that tube are called ” lasers “.. The energy they produce is. not electricity. In the model Bove it is radio waves and the end product is electricit. Safe. Sound
.cost effective. Invest. Geniuses of science…nkt politicians of mass destruction are involved her. Donald Trump my have a good use in mind.
Peter H. Dragonas PhD, MD, Scientist Physician & Visionary.

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catherine
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January 21, 2018 12:03 pm
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# needlessly rude comment $WATT
Jay L. Stern, I see you are a guest, so perhaps you aren’t aware that members of the Gummunity don’t set out to insult each other.

This type of comment can numb people to your following information: “Reading these comments is appalling. You people appear to have zero scientific knowledge. Even a basic, high-school class in chemistry or physics ….”

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Paul
January 21, 2018 5:33 pm
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He is right people posting garbage on scientific matters.

Sam
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January 21, 2018 7:14 pm
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Bro, I’m a guest. you are an Irregular… get over it. Jay can say what ever he wants. If you become an Admin or what ever, then I might listen to you. but till then stop bullying a guy who knows more than you do. furthermore stop ‘copy and pasting’ because that is plagiarism (punishable by law).

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January 26, 2018 8:31 am
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Sir, plagiarism is only punishable by law if you attempt to profit by it.

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archives2001
archives2001
January 21, 2018 9:03 pm
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Spot on comment Catherine!
Couldn’t have said it better myself!!!

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Lou Louis
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January 19, 2018 10:14 pm
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Ham radio operators have long been known (and proven) to have a statistically significant higher incidence of brain cancer. There is also strong association between proximity to broadcast towers and cancer. Why would that be?

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boychemist
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January 21, 2018 1:47 pm
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I don’t agree with the conclusions offered by fanfare. Radio waves and microwaves do penetrate “bodies” as observed when microwaves are capable of heating food from “the inside out.”

MRI’s are an example of the affect of radio waves on tissue. The magnetic field aligns the nuclei of atoms in soft tissue which are then flipped by absorbing radio frequency energy as it sweeps through both tissue and wavelength. The nuclei resonate and return to ground state without (we think) doing any damage.

Some higher frequency EM radiation does extensive damage to the skin but doesn’t give the impression of being able to penetrate since all of the radiation is absorbed within a few millimeters of the surface. Given enough time after skin is thoroughly fried to a crisp, cellular material below would, I believe, proceed to be affected.

Gamma radiation emitted by radio-technicium used in stress tests for coronary damage come from the gamma rays of the tracer atoms emiited from the heart tissue so they are penetrating “in reverse” and are detected external to the body.

Very energetic EM (like X rays) are quite capable of penetrating but cease to be when they hit bones. That’s also why we wear a lead apron to protect reproductive tissue with dental X rays.

I would suggest that all radiation is able to penetrate tissue but some wavelengths will be absorbed more than others leading to potentially catastrophic molecular changes.

The bottom line is does the wavelength of the radiation cause damage either superficially or deep within the tissue. Any damage is not acceptable. Concerns about ANY wavelength IMHO should be properly evaluated.

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Dan
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Dan
January 22, 2018 4:42 pm
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Microwaves do not cook from the inside out……have you ever eaten food cooked in a microwave? That claim is preposterous. Further, MRI’s act upon water molecules (specifically hydrogen) which occurs in soft tissues and fat, it doesn’t destroy or alter them, hence its safety. Xrays are dangerous because, they, and other ionizing forms of radiation, can break chemical bonds and kill or alter cells. Various wavelengths of visible light, depending upon energy levels can also burn or destroy tissue, so (as someone else said earlier, not you) saying that visible light wavelengths or that wavelengths longer than visible light are safe is not totally true (IR can certainly damage tissue…particularly the retina)….it is not necessarily about wavelength, but about energy, as well.

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BobKlahn
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January 28, 2018 6:13 pm
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Radio waves can penetrate the body and interact inside it. The reason it doesn’t at broadcast levels is the power is very very small at your location.

Running you car will be thousands of watts going into the box you are riding in. That energy would be distributed throughout the whole area, as nobody is going to aim it at your car specifically. Even more, not at your power receptor of your car.

Lou Louis
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Lou Louis
January 19, 2018 10:10 pm
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You are wise to wonder. One might think the FCC would consider the health impact, but this particular iteration of it may not.

Peter H Dragonas M D
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Peter H Dragonas M D
January 20, 2018 10:29 am
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There is no way an application for production of. Electricity can escape the Federal and world class scientific academic institutions. They have an excellent reputation for testing both safe application cost effectiveness and all the possible side effects known to Electrical Engineers, manufacturing safety and need. We Americans are naive in that we are willing to discuss our original ideas in the global press. There are many countries who competed and put our ideas and inventions into the. Marketplace, untested. Those are the places to keep away from.i trust our tried & true scientists 100%. You shall see. Invest.

Lyryn
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Lyryn
January 21, 2018 11:48 am
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Then, add 5G and smart (kill) meters = major increase in morbidity/mortality rates…

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Sheila Dale
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Sheila Dale
January 23, 2018 3:30 pm
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And we know being exposed to the lower frequency with cell phones does cause considerable health issues over time

Arialbomb
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Arialbomb
January 26, 2018 5:33 am
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As with studying engineering, but it’s been a long time, I can say that the electromagnetic wave spectrum is sort of large. Radio waves are on the lower end, the kind you get with radios (unharmful). The wave itself is large like you may have heard in an article somewhere, like the length of a football field or something and get shorter with the more powerful rays. Then as you go up the line, you get microwaves, infrared, visible (light/prisim), ultraviolet, xray, gamma. As you can see, they get more dangerous as you go up the line, even ‘visible’ can be harmful at high doses. Check out this link: comment image&action=click

bstew
bstew
January 28, 2018 7:25 pm
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I won’t be buying the charger.

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Brian Hale
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Brian Hale
January 29, 2018 5:14 pm
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Yes you would be cooked, thats the idea with the 5g cell towers too

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dennis
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dennis
February 1, 2018 10:46 am
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Tesla had a project of the same ideas but JPMorgan, his backer, couldn’t come up with a way to make money from it like the power companies do so he shelved it! It was all about the money so how are the power companies going to make a cent from this except from the power to use it to make the RF waves??

hullevad
January 17, 2018 4:15 pm

No wonder there are no fairy tale writers anymore. There are a lot more money in writing “teasers”.

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enviropurelight
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enviropurelight
January 17, 2018 6:43 pm
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Exactly, hype sells, always has, always will.

stockie12
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January 17, 2018 8:08 pm
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Fairy tales will last as fairy tales, teasers purporting to be predictors of the future will fail when the future reveals their hype, no?

Sam
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Sam
January 21, 2018 7:19 pm
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well said… well said

archives2001
archives2001
January 21, 2018 9:15 pm
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Not necessarily. To wit, prognosticators like ‘Broken Clock Harry’ Dent who continue to be dead wrong for several years. But folks continue to follow his drivel. Reminds me of Lucy cajoling Charlie Brown to kick the football every Fall.

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tinonadine66
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tinonadine66
January 17, 2018 6:17 pm

Thank you Travis!
Whenever I see teasers from Michael R., etc. I look to your site for additional information and FACTS.

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enviropurelight
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enviropurelight
January 17, 2018 6:33 pm

Hype indeed, articles were full of it, and charging batteries is hardly producing electricity from air which is what it sounded like from the hype. Big deal, charging batteries without contacts, sure, there is a market, but at what profit level.

valuequestor
valuequestor
January 17, 2018 7:05 pm

anybody buying at this point, or is it just too early ?

Ed Moore
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Ed Moore
January 17, 2018 8:37 pm

Cogent level-headed article. Yes, the tediously wordy Robinson sales pitch to get you to spend $39 was absurd.
Robinson is now the poster boy for internet marketing gone crazy.

copacetic98
January 17, 2018 9:58 pm

As far as I can tell, this company is a total fraud. Everything other than contact charging that they’ve promised has been either a violation of the laws of physics or a violation of FCC rules. The FCC approval was actually for a testing method, not for a product, but it did open a pathway to a product for the first time. Unfortunately, the max power permitted would maybe be enough to charge something like a hearing aid battery in 24-48 hours, if you attached a receiver with a 20 cm antenna. Tons of comment about this one in Seeking Alpha, and a very good overview of both the technical side and the CES demo at the following blog:

https://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.ca/2018/01/further-energous-safety-limits-mpe.html
https://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.ca/2018/01/tech-journalism-fail-energous-at-ces.html

Stay away, unless you buy long-term puts. This company will fail eventually, but it is really good at raising money and selling stock, so timing is really difficult. Similar to Travis playing the iPhone 7, I made a ton of money with puts on the iPhone 8 release. After the huge pop from the FCC announcement, I bought some Feb puts. Maybe I didn’t give it enough time, but I am quite sure this stock will be well under $10 again before the next round of hype.

I repeat, Stay Away. This is the second-stupidest company out there, despite the fact that some people actually made money on it.

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Sam
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Sam
January 21, 2018 7:24 pm
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this device still has many kinks and problems. but I believe that before the WATT comes out on the market the whole thing will be perfectly safe and a bit more than enough to power a hearing aid.

thomaskuttyja
thomaskuttyja
January 18, 2018 2:30 am

how about UBEAM

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portpals
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portpals
January 18, 2018 4:26 am

I doubt that there is enough energy in radio waves to do large scale charging. The physics for wave energy is
E=h x mu where h is Planck’s constant and mu is the frequency. When you charge a car battery for instance, you have to generate
10 amps or so to do it in any useful time. Look at the huge area of photo cells needed for generating domestic electricity from high energy sun radiation……I don’t think radio frequencies can generate enough amps to charge an electric car…Robinson is a charlatan in my book..”disingenuous” is putting it mildly.

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saint stephen
January 18, 2018 9:51 am

I’ll pass on this technology pitch, but Robinson’s marijuana reports are worth a read.

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ginridge
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January 21, 2018 10:07 am
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Perhaps he was using the product pitched in those reports when he wrote this one.

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BDwolfhound
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January 18, 2018 1:00 pm

As portpals pointed out, the energy of electromagnetic radiation is directly proportional to the frequency, which is why we try to keep away from gamma radiation and keep even much lower energy microwave radiation inside Faraday cages.Yes, we can produce loud music and images from radio and TV transmissions that are low energy in themselves, but we do that with amplifiers fed from batteries or line power. The notion that significant energy density can be provided by long wave (i.e., low frequency) radio transmission does not compute. There is also the matter of the inverse square law for signal strength from an unfocused source. Certainly, modest energy transmission such as is needed to charge a hearing aid or phone battery is achievable with a long enough charge time in a focused transmission, but charging an electric car battery? Give me a break, already

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enviropurelight
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January 18, 2018 1:55 pm
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My thoughts exactly, no way to pump up the amps enough to transmit on any frequency without toasting anyone who ventures to cross the path of these signal waves. Almost funny, but then I think of Tesla, not the current day Tesla.

kjseibert
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January 18, 2018 9:21 pm

I am an investor in Energous and have followed it closely for the past 2 years. One thing I want to correct is this thought of them charging a car. They have said many times over the years that they are focused on small IoT up to cell phones and possibly tablets. Witricity is a private company that is focusing on charging cars with a more laser based tech I believe. Their real differentiator from what I have gathered is that Energous’ tech is “pocket forming” and shuts down or decreases power transmission if there is a risk to humans based on FCC Rule 18 Standard Absorption Rate limits. I am no expert, but with FCC approval for their mid field tech and their growing IP portfolio, which currently stands at 89 granted / approved and over 250 total submitted, it feels like at the very least an acquisition candidate.

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Art
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Art
January 19, 2018 5:24 am
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You are correct!
There is also a lot of institutional holdings. 80 or so.

Jim
Jim
January 19, 2018 12:42 am

186,541.253% gain anticipated! Yup, your wireless car charger will make your tv & phone work like your car radio under a powerline. Anyone see what ARRL had to say?

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Jim
Jim
January 19, 2018 12:52 am

Apx. 30 Mhz is the more damaging range to affect tissue.

ALFIE
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ALFIE
January 19, 2018 2:09 pm

After having a lot of experience in radio and antenna, this is BS.
Supposedly N. Tesla had radio waves that would power houses. NOT SO.
This just does not meet the requirements of a guy named Newton.

buffalodiesel
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buffalodiesel
January 19, 2018 10:15 pm

let us hope they do not use micro waves to transmit power. Still, not using a wire is wasting energy. I believe Mr. Tesla who was a genius attempted to transmit electric energy through the air and failed. Induction would work at short distances but you waste a lot of energy by not using a wire. Really this is a stupid idea.

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christian C ohagwu
January 20, 2018 1:23 pm

Micheal Robinson should be avoided like a plague. Those of who have been burned by his hysterical hypes know better. I don’t even know how the man can look at himself in the mirror

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XRTDOPE
January 21, 2018 9:11 am

Radiofrequecy radiation can produce significant damage when convergent. See what it can do in the microwave cooking. Higher frequencies, such as the visible light may be carcinogenic in the skin. Therefore, coaxiallity and duration of exposure of any photon emission have to be established by carefully designed clinical (human) studies, before approval of any marketable use.

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topaz
January 21, 2018 11:38 am

Michael Robinson and his “Nova X” report, along with all the other “get rich quick advisers” ( Money Morning, The 10 Minute Millionaire, Dr Kent Moors, Keith Fitz-Gerald, Tom Gentle, Matt Warder, Shah Gilani, and the rest ……………… they all trumpet on about their “triple gain” winners, but never mention the hundreds of losers they tip – have never made a cent out of any of these charlatans, but lost many thousand dollars following their advices -the only “triple gain” winners are them, laughing all the way to the bank!! Will “NanoCrystal Electricity Magically Power Everything” and “pay out 78 times your money?” More chance that the herd of wild boar flying past my trailer will land on The White House Lawn!!!

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January 21, 2018 12:11 pm

I have no, ABSOLUTELY NONE, experience in this ever changing TECH WORLD which ww live. I only know that the SCIENCE OF PHYSICS, rooted in MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL LAW is PROOF of what we humans are still quite naive and have so much to learn. Sometimes we GAIN SUBSTANTIALLY WHEN WE TAKE A LEAP OF FAITH. However, this tactic isnt the smartest or wisest texhnique to implement when investing. So to my point…
A Scientist who lived some many years ago discovered that there IS AN UNLIMITED SUPPLY OF ENERGY FOR EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING AND THAT IT CAN BE ACCESSED IF ONE HAS KNOWLEDGE TO DO SO. NIKOLAI TESLA is the gentleman of whom I speak. He is also a man of GREAT FAITH. And I am of the belief that it sounds like to me that HUMANITY HAS EMBARKED UPON THE DISCOVERY OF THAT UNLIMITED SUPPLY. HOWEVER, IT IS INDEED A COLLECTIVE EFFORT. I believe that TESLA referred to the human being and the air around us that is permeated with electricity. I believe there is some promise to this NANOELECTRICITY. MAYBE OUR COLLECTIVE INVESTMENTS MAY HELP THIS COMPANY BRING IT TO FRUITION. I may consider a modest investment. It was Michael Robinson who advised me about Bitcoin in 2011. The man couldnt be more right and I was never more wrong for not taking A LEAP OF FAITH.

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An atypical soc. major
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An atypical soc. major
January 29, 2018 5:27 pm
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Did Nik Tesla invent the Capital Letter, too ?

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