What Does 1 km Look Like?

Written by Tom Nugent on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Here’s what one kilometer (the travel distance for this year’s Power Beaming competition) looks like, at least when seen horizontally along a bike path near our shop. (All photos were taken at a maximum zoom of 55mm on a Nikon D40 while looking towards the tracking base station set up under the bridge. The two dark blobs under the bridge in the first photo are cars we used to move the equipment down there.)

200m:

400m:

600m:

800m:

Finally, 1,000m:

It will be very interesting to see how that distance looks when oriented vertically.