Another thing goes wireless

[SS4 Gogeta]

Wireless Power.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6725955.stm

 

[Jariroth]

This is what we have been waiting for, soon we dont have to charge our Mobile phone batteries by plugging it into a wire. Just keep it in the house with wireless energy for a while and full battery ready to go.
Downsides are that soon people start to think that those electro magnetic waves cause brain cancer, and somebody bans the project.

 

[Barney]

I WANT ONE!!!

Yea it probably will cause cancer...but I think I can deal with it if I have wireless energy.

 

[vinay87]

Wait... What about wireless sex....?

Darn people. They don't understand whats good for them.

 

[Almighty_Gir]

good idea in principal, but what about people with pacemakers etc?

 

[Deathshot]

Yea, It would be a great Thing to have. It could have some bad effects but there are alot of good things to come out of this.

 

[Spunky]

Wait... What about wireless sex....?

Darn people. They don't understand whats good for them.

Oh no, they do.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124819/

 

[Ravendust]

And I thought Wireless USB was cool, the thought of wireless power is like wow.

But it needs a lot of development and fine-tuning first, 40% efficiency isn't worth using imo.

 

[Zeonix]

It took how long to invent a lesser version of tesla's creation?

Jeez.

 

[TehMuffinMan]

so its basiclly a larger version of whats used in various toothbrush chargers and similar appliances for the past few years? S:

 

[J-Dude]

I like the idea

It could mean the end of sockets. Instead, they'll just have energy projectors. I think it would be simple to prevent interference to other devices. All you have to do is have the energy project at a specific frequency that is picked up by the device. You could have a different frequency between homes and between sockets so that flicking a switch effects only what you want turned on. It would also prevent people from leeching power from your house if the frequencies between homes is randomized. Sorta' like protecting your wirless network from nearby houses trying to leech from your wi-fi.

 

[DJ-Ready]

thats old news btw. there has been a thread about this (exact same method btw) about 1 or 2 years ago or so.
Anyway, I wouldn't want to use it. 40% efficiency over only 2 meters? Who's gonna pay my power bill then.
As if we hadn't enough energy problems already...

 

[Adaptus]

I could see this being useful if people used solar energy more.

Let's imagine everyone had solar panels on their roof, then you could get more energy, so the 40% efficiency wouldn't be as much of a bother since it's free electricity anyway.

 

[J-Dude]

I could see this being useful if people used solar energy more.

Let's imagine everyone had solar panels on their roof, then you could get more energy, so the 40% efficiency wouldn't be as much of a bother since it's free electricity anyway.

Yeah, too bad solar panels cost such an assload of money...man, if they could make them cost effective then EVERYONE could have them on their roof! But noooooo, they have to be worth thousands of dollars, so nobody buys them. If I could afford them, I'd have solar panels mounted over the whole roof. There's no downside to them, except they're so expensive...

 

[sub]

thats old news btw. there has been a thread about this (exact same method btw) about 1 or 2 years ago or so.
Anyway, I wouldn't want to use it. 40% efficiency over only 2 meters? Who's gonna pay my power bill then.
As if we hadn't enough energy problems already...

Nah, that thread you're talking abou was powering up devices by placing them on a metal plateish thing. No wires in that one, but this is far more convenient.

 

[Killface]

Nah, that thread you're talking abou was powering up devices by placing them on a metal plateish thing. No wires in that one, but this is far more convenient.

No... i remember that exact same thread also. It used the exact same method that was used here, if i remember correctly.

 

[Jariroth]

There's no downside to them, except they're so expensive...

And they actually dont make enough energy so you could compensate for the lost 60%. You probably couldnt keep more than few energy saving lightbulbs if you had a roof full of them on a cloudless day. Solar energy isnt that efficient.

Solar energy < Wind energy < Water energy < Nuclear energy