I hope this is banned before they even begin shipping products. We literally just managed to develop some sort of minimum efficiency requirements for chargers and now they're going to start selling something way way more inefficient that may or may not be subject to any sorts of requirements.
And the worst thing is - in order to actually benefit from the ease of use this provides, those chargers need to be plugged in 24/7. Modern phones remind you to unplug your charger when the phone is done charging, and I think at least a few people do that to save energy, but nobody will ever unplug a wireless charging mat...
*sigh*. See THIS is why innovation stops... People don't do research. It is EXTREMELY efficient. More so than a standard AC-DC power supply because it uses VERY minimal power when plugged in just to 'sense' nearby devices and, once discovered, it is far more efficient than wires. Look at Tesla's notes and recent research. Wires HINDER current-flow. Wireless transmission is able to "beam" electricity directly to the divice with VERY little loss. This WILL make "Mother Nature thrilled". :-)
@vertigo1, you actually believe that? LOL. Really, ROFL. I've studied electrical engineering for a couple of years, let me tell you this: energy transmission over induction is TERRIBLY inefficient compared to even a bad conductor, let alone copper.
@L That's because you've been studying the traditional "way of doing things". Computer controller circuity controlling a pulse-frequency electromagnetic field is very efficient. The same if not more so than the restrictive circuitry they put in most of the cheap Chinese-made DC power supplies. Research Tesla's patents.
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Hooray for super-inefficient charging. I hear Mother Nature is thrilled!
I hope this is banned before they even begin shipping products. We literally just managed to develop some sort of minimum efficiency requirements for chargers and now they're going to start selling something way way more inefficient that may or may not be subject to any sorts of requirements.
And the worst thing is - in order to actually benefit from the ease of use this provides, those chargers need to be plugged in 24/7. Modern phones remind you to unplug your charger when the phone is done charging, and I think at least a few people do that to save energy, but nobody will ever unplug a wireless charging mat...
I, too, hope every new innovation is banned unless its first version follows the constraints of a long-standing, tested and refined old technology.
What was the fuel economy of the first automobile? You have to start somewhere.
*sigh*. See THIS is why innovation stops... People don't do research.
It is EXTREMELY efficient. More so than a standard AC-DC power supply because it uses VERY minimal power when plugged in just to 'sense' nearby devices and, once discovered, it is far more efficient than wires. Look at Tesla's notes and recent research. Wires HINDER current-flow. Wireless transmission is able to "beam" electricity directly to the divice with VERY little loss.
This WILL make "Mother Nature thrilled". :-)
chain yourself to a tree and starve yourself to death.
@vertigo1, you actually believe that? LOL. Really, ROFL. I've studied electrical engineering for a couple of years, let me tell you this: energy transmission over induction is TERRIBLY inefficient compared to even a bad conductor, let alone copper.
@L That's because you've been studying the traditional "way of doing things". Computer controller circuity controlling a pulse-frequency electromagnetic field is very efficient. The same if not more so than the restrictive circuitry they put in most of the cheap Chinese-made DC power supplies. Research Tesla's patents.
Mother Nature shouldn't have had kids.