Intel Demonstrates Wireless Power

[PoppyLlama]

Originally Posted by propaintball

Wow... My invention has been made!

Plus, it has been proven the waves that come from mobiles dont cause cancer.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7229003.stm

Think about it. I think you have have cancer already, the amount of waves there would be going through you constantly, Radio, Wireless from home networks, mobile phones, everything.

I read a study from some australian news journal saying that WiFi has some link to childhood autism..? Does anyone know about that?



As far as the wireless power goes. It's really cool..but seriously, why not put funds into more beneficial technologies? I'm perfectly happy with my current wall plug status

[CybrSlydr]

****, you can find studies that'll say anything you want.

Air will give you cancer, meat will kill your sperm, watches will give you melanoma.

In moderation folks.

[siegen]

Originally Posted by PoppyLlama

As far as the wireless power goes. It's really cool..but seriously, why not put funds into more beneficial technologies? I'm perfectly happy with my current wall plug status

This is an incredibly beneficial technology. It goes far beyond just not having to plug in your laptop or desktop. The applications are nearly limitless.

[propaintball]

Originally Posted by PoppyLlama

I read a study from some australian news journal saying that WiFi has some link to childhood autism..? Does anyone know about that?



As far as the wireless power goes. It's really cool..but seriously, why not put funds into more beneficial technologies? I'm perfectly happy with my current wall plug status

No i havent :/

[-Prismatic-]

My penabled tablet uses similar technology to power my pen, it's nothing new...

[BRONiUS]

Originally Posted by Maniac

Haven't you ever played SimCity 2000? Obviously a microwave ray blasts the earth ^^.

Oh my... I have to play that game. NOW. *starts searching in CD full of DOS games*

[WyZe]

Originally Posted by PoppyLlama

I read a study from some australian news journal saying that WiFi has some link to childhood autism..? Does anyone know about that?



As far as the wireless power goes. It's really cool..but seriously, why not put funds into more beneficial technologies? I'm perfectly happy with my current wall plug status

I really can't believe you said that... you don't think outside of your little box much do you? There is a lot more interesting things that this underdeveloped (at least to the general populations knowledge) technology could bring other than not having to plug in our stupid little useless gadgets. It could help us totally overcome our growing energy concerns.

[repoman]

Originally Posted by WyZe

I really can't believe you said that... you don't think outside of your little box much do you? There is a lot more interesting things that this underdeveloped (at least to the general populations knowledge) technology could bring other than not having to plug in our stupid little useless gadgets. It could help us totally overcome our growing energy concerns.

I was gonna say 'like what' but then you edited your post.. sneaky bastard.

I'll ask anyway .. like what? Not being a smartass, I'm genuinely curious. How would it solve energy concerns? Doesn't the energy still have to come from someplace, wireless or not?

[WyZe]

Originally Posted by repoman

I was gonna say 'like what' but then you edited your post.. sneaky bastard.

I'll ask anyway .. like what? Not being a smartass, I'm genuinely curious. How would it solve energy concerns? Doesn't the energy still have to come from someplace, wireless or not?

Well, in the most basic example, lots of energy is consumed simply by moving said energy from one location to another. e.g. We are getting fewer and fewer barrels of oil for use as energy compared to the amount of oil we invest in locating, getting at and transporting than ever before. If we can cut out the shipping process we could save a signifigant portion of energy right there.

If wireless transmission of energy results in less energy lost during transportation than through conventional transportation, we could possibly have a signifigant savings in oil and thus a savings in our worlds energy supply.

Also, some future locations where energy are to be found may simply be so remote or unnavigable that we may simply have no other way to ecomincally remove the energy from those locations other than via wireless transmission or something else completely different from conventional shipping processes.

[retslag1]

Originally Posted by PoppyLlama

I read a study from some australian news journal saying that WiFi has some link to childhood autism..? Does anyone know about that?

your kidding right?

[lexandro]

What I have been wondering is, if it uses a magnetic field to transmit energy, and its proven that dragging a cable through a magnetic field generates energy, would it be possible to use this method to generate and transmit energy?

[killermodz]

these wireless causes cancer studies make me die laughing. If they did such a thing, i'd be a sure fire case example for their study, with all the transmitters i have worked with.

[Ghost742]

looks like some one found teslas research papers lol

[Orac]

this tech needs to be used, i dont think it will not be usable in the home for quite some time but in work places where cables present a trip hazard like garages and hospitals with all the mobile equipment it would be ideal. it means you wouldn't have to worry about how close the next plug is for the guys life support machine and he could be oved without the fear of him dying alos allowing the the equipment to be built into the bed to make it easy to move

[WiCKeD]

Added a picture from the DailyTech article. Prototype looks curiously similar to this picture...

[bftek]

I really cant wait for this tech to be widely used and available for consumers...

[justinsn95]

As Tesla hangs his head in shame for it taking the world this long...

[Citat3962]

Originally Posted by PoppyLlama

I read a study from some australian news journal saying that WiFi has some link to childhood autism..?

Supposedly so does the MMR Vaccination, and any form of sea food, or any other commonly used item Dateline NBC can link to Autism to culture an expected response in stock value [/conspiracy]

When in reality the only link was the similarities of mecury poisoning and a preservative NO LONGER USED in the vaccine..

Terrified soccer moms still will refuse to vaccinate their children based on this utter lie propagated by our media and as a result this year has the highest number of reported cases of Measles since 1997.

Link

IMO we should spend more time focusing on the diseases themselves looking for root causes instead of testing every item containing a chemical or emiting any form of radiation one by one until we find something that COULD cause the disease and mistakenly latch onto it.

I think it's safe to say if Cell phones caused Autism there would be NO people throughout history with Autism and more to the point anyone born after the mid 80s would be Autistic by now. There are entire generations who have been born and grown into adulthood since the advent of the cell phone and there has been no appreciable increase in the Autistic population.

[Aylmeris]

Originally Posted by WyZe

Well, in the most basic example, lots of energy is consumed simply by moving said energy from one location to another. e.g. We are getting fewer and fewer barrels of oil for use as energy compared to the amount of oil we invest in locating, getting at and transporting than ever before. If we can cut out the shipping process we could save a signifigant portion of energy right there.

If wireless transmission of energy results in less energy lost during transportation than through conventional transportation, we could possibly have a signifigant savings in oil and thus a savings in our worlds energy supply.

Also, some future locations where energy are to be found may simply be so remote or unnavigable that we may simply have no other way to ecomincally remove the energy from those locations other than via wireless transmission or something else completely different from conventional shipping processes.

Well so far the technology is such that you lose far more energy transferring it wirelessly. I'm sure it would improve but if it's reduced energy losses in transfer you want, why not look into superconductors?

[-Aj-]

um, you do all realise that weve been using this method for years, called inductive coupling. its the exact same thing that is in a mains transformer for your laptop or charging your mobile phone, an electric toothbrush does as well. The only difference is these examples work over a much shorter distance. Now the method of power transmission that is being used here will NOT harm you, magnetic fields have very little effect on the human body. The fact you can lay inside an MRI machine and be perfectly fine is proof of this. Mobile phones and the such all use electric fields to transmit signals which can affect living cells but that is dependent on afew different factors. Anyway magnetic fields, unlike electric fields, are significantly harder to direct. they just want to come out of the north pole and follow around back to the south and the only way you can alter their path is by conducting them through a metal shield or block. This means that yes, it is entirely possible to have wireless power for anything you want, BUT whether it is practical is another question. Just think about it for a moment, your pc for instance might need 500w? ok that means your going to be needing to transmit OVER five hundred watts of power due to resistive losses in the coils. Then youve got the inverse square losses that you get with any transmitted energy, which is why theyre only getting 40% efficiency with this sort of thing. Itll only be good over short distances anyway, unless youre using higher frequencies which the current experiments are not for some reason, cause with higher frequencies you can get away with smaller sized coils for the same power. But youve also got issues with it buggering up other electronics in the area. if youve got afew hundred watts of magnetic energy floating around its not going to make things like magnetic storage media ie tapes, floppies, HARD DRIVES too happy, crt's will also get rather ****ed with you. so for some applications it will be useful but others i would say no, like powering your whole house with wireless energy and the coils being in the walls.. ok if you want to go shield every electrical product you own go for it but ill pass. You could have a charger for your phone/ipod or whatever though, have a small coil inside the devices protective pouch (which you will now want to get) and you can simply sit it on a pad on your desk or even just somewhere near there, ofcourse the closer it is the better your charge rate.
The only thing that has me wondering is why are they doing this now? Are you bored intel or just trying to make more of a name for yourself? Were already supposed to be getting more consciouses about our energy usage, but things like this are exceedingly inefficient compared to just using copper wire. And really its not that hard to just plug the thing in is it? Sure itd be a cool thing to have but for most it would have no real added advantage to the current system