I have to bump the thread as something is bothering me about this so-called near field concept. Physically speaking, one inserts let's say about 10 kW (70dBm) of RF power at 7 MHz into the transmitting coil. Then I have to say I'm somewhat concerned about the far-field effects of such a system. To my sense it should be unambiguous that at a distance of around 85 metres (2λ) away from the driven coil, anyone standing in the direction (again, standing around 80 metres away from it) would be exerted to 40dBm of equivalent EIRP just as if it was intended to work as a loop antenna in the first place (Friis calculation refers to 0dBi antenna gain). Obviously it's still far away from being as dangerous as putting your body in front of a microwave oven magnetron waveguide, but I'm just curious as I've never seen any article discussing about the far-field effects.