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My understanding, though, is that all of these wireless charging solutions are significantly less efficient that wired power. Even if it's, say, 10% less efficient, that's a huge, huge waste of energy on a large scale if this technology becomes popular.
My understanding, though, is that all of these wireless charging solutions are significantly less efficient that wired power. Even if it's, say, 10% less efficient, that's a huge, huge waste of energy on a large scale if this technology becomes popular.
I think charging my phone loses about 5% in thermal losses at the connector (because it gets warm)
10% is both not important (in this context) and unfortunately optimistic
Work on wireless power transfer has been going on over 100-years, even Tesla worked on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power_transfer Hard to imagine this being mainstream anytime soon. Is there any reason to believe this will become mainstream in the near future?
As a physicist, I am similarly skeptical. It seems quite unlikely to me that wireless power will take off within our lifetimes. However, if it does happen, I suspect it will be because of one of the following hypotheses: (1) Electronics continue to become more energy efficient, to the point that a tiny wireless power trickle is sufficient to run them (2) Perhaps computers will be an enabling technology, both in desig…
3) Advances in molecular manufacturing (Drexler-style!) allows us to construct atomically perfect transmitters and receivers. This, somehow, increases efficiency to north of 90%. And increases range, too.
My understanding, though, is that all of these wireless charging solutions are significantly less efficient that wired power. Even if it's, say, 10% less efficient, that's a huge, huge waste of energy on a large scale if this technology becomes popular.
By increasing battery capacity, improving the efficiency of our devices, and lowering charging time, the inconvenience of charging during the middle of the day when heavy use is likely simply wouldn't happen nearly as much.
My understanding, though, is that all of these wireless charging solutions are significantly less efficient that wired power. Even if it's, say, 10% less efficient, that's a huge, huge waste of energy on a large scale if this technology becomes popular.
Why would it not be absorbed by proportional savings in heating?
My understanding, though, is that all of these wireless charging solutions are significantly less efficient that wired power. Even if it's, say, 10% less efficient, that's a huge, huge waste of energy on a large scale if this technology becomes popular.
You don't need a wire or even a socket on the device; flat contacts on the bottom would be fine.
Apple probably will implement this crap, more hypocrisy and another step in their war against usefulness. First they remove the audio output from their best-selling music players. Actually, not first... they've been removing battery capacity for years, in an idiotic and embarrassing campaign to make already-too-thin devices "thinner." But not really thinner, because the camera sticks out.
Think of how good the camera would be if the phone were thick enough to provide reasonable battery power?
The problem is that spineless consumers vote for products that call them stupid.
My favorite is still the cradle with contact pins that were on the original nexus one phones, no need to plug anything in, no need to align with magnetic grippers, just drop it in the cradle and it worked. Why did that ever go away?
This exemplifies why wireless charging is a dumb gimmick.
My understanding, though, is that all of these wireless charging solutions are significantly less efficient that wired power. Even if it's, say, 10% less efficient, that's a huge, huge waste of energy on a large scale if this technology becomes popular.
Work on wireless power transfer has been going on over 100-years, even Tesla worked on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power_transfer Hard to imagine this being mainstream anytime soon. Is there any reason to believe this will become mainstream in the near future?
I wouldn't mind it. For a lot of my devices if you put on the wireless charger the wrong way you come up to a dead device. This would theoretically allow you to be fully charged if there were enough beacons in a building.