gregory reed is the director of the electric power initiative at the university of pittsburgh. gregory how does it work? >> hi, melissa. you're absolutely right. in the aftermath of everyone of these natural disasters or have natural disturbances in the power network we realize how dependent we are today in modern society on electricity. so we need to do a better job of improving the resiliency of the our electrical energy supply and our electric deliver. so wireless technology is something that is beginning to start as a possible futuristic application of how we move electricity. you know, throughout our electrical networks. how it works is, is essentially by, by, magnetic induction, using magnetic fields in the air to move electricity wirelessly from a transmitter to a receiver. melissa: can you pow ear whole house a whole building? >> not exactly right now. a lot of applications and demonstrations that have been done so far really only able to move it several meters, maybe a little bit more to charge cell phones or maybe even laptop computers. some of the research is developi