Wireless Electricity (1 Viewer)

[TheIronSheik]

Tesla would be so happy to hear this.

 

[mquinnjr]

Tesla would be so happy to hear this.

“Every time Catherine would turn on the microwave, I’d piss my pants and forget who I was for about half an hour.”

Now, it's basically your whole house. But how this works is over my head, so I'll just go with this seems awesome.

 

[Scoresman]

if this electricity is in the air, wouldn't this electrocute the whole planet's population as soon as the switch is turned on?

 

[NCCommish]

if this electricity is in the air, wouldn't this electrocute the whole planet's population as soon as the switch is turned on?

"But, we're not actually putting electricity in the air. What we're doing is putting a magnetic field in the air."

 

[Scoresman]

yeah I didn't actually click on the link.

 

[NCCommish]

yeah I didn't actually click on the link.

I had a feeling

 

[Scoresman]

so next question. if it's a magnetic field in the air wont this make everyone's pocket change and car keys and silverware fly all over the place?

 

[Phil Elliott]

I don't think US coins are magnetic. Maybe some other countrie's coins are.

 

[Keerock]

I don't think US coins are magnetic. Maybe some other countrie's coins are.

Hence the move to bitcoins.

 

[NCCommish]

so next question. if it's a magnetic field in the air wont this make everyone's pocket change and car keys and silverware fly all over the place?

It's a magnetic field that interacts with a coil. Not it won't have grannies silverware flying around the house.

 

[mr roboto]

If you guys just watch the damn video...

 

[TheIronSheik]

I want this now. I'm tired of having to plug my cell phone in every night like a sucker.

 

[skol asylum]

How much cancer will it cause?

 

[mquinnjr]

I don't think US coins are magnetic. Maybe some other countrie's coins are.

Hence the move to bitcoins.

Your sig.

 

[Scoresman]

how will this affect people with idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields?

 

[TheIronSheik]

how will this affect people with idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields?

Who gives a ####? As long as I don't have to plug my crap in and can place lamps anywhere, I'm all in.

 

[TheIronSheik]

How much cancer will it cause?

See above.

 

[Schlzm]

I generate a crazy bioelectric field, is this going to turn me into a superhuman or kill me?

Schlzm

 

[Scoresman]

how will this affect people with idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields?

Who gives a ####? As long as I don't have to plug my crap in and can place lamps anywhere, I'm all in.

I have a relative with this condition, so I give a ####, sir. I give a ####.

 

[NCCommish]

I generate a crazy bioelectric field, is this going to turn me into a superhuman or kill me?

Schlzm

Yes

 

[TheIronSheik]

how will this affect people with idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields?

Who gives a ####? As long as I don't have to plug my crap in and can place lamps anywhere, I'm all in.

I have a relative with this condition, so I give a ####, sir. I give a ####.

Well, then they're not invited to my future home that doesn't require devices to be plugged in.

 

[NutterButter]

So cool for electric cars. Your car will be always ready to go the next morning fully charged.

 

[Emerson Biggens]

Yeah #####, magnets!

 

[Phil Elliott]

I don't think US coins are magnetic. Maybe some other countrie's coins are.

Hence the move to bitcoins.

Yes, and it really bytes when they just disappear.

 

[ClownCausedChaos2]

Why wait for the long-term effects? Why not just put your nuts in a microwave now?

 

[TheIronSheik]

Why wait for the long-term effects? Why not just put your nuts in a microwave now?

Long term effects are for pansies.

 

[ClownCausedChaos2]

Why wait for the long-term effects? Why not just put your nuts in a microwave now?

Long term effects are for pansies.

That's my point!

 

[Scoresman]

is this something the oil companies will likely put the kibosh on?

 

[NCCommish]

is this something the oil companies will likely put the kibosh on?

Why would they? It doesn't generate the electricity is just distribution.

 

[Scoresman]

is this something the oil companies will likely put the kibosh on?

Why would they? It doesn't generate the electricity is just distribution.

because whenever something good happens in this field, and it seems like the oil companies and their conservative overlords will lose money on it, it tends to disappear.

 

[NCCommish]

is this something the oil companies will likely put the kibosh on?

Why would they? It doesn't generate the electricity is just distribution.

because whenever something good happens in this field, and it seems like the oil companies and their conservative overlords will lose money on it, it tends to disappear.

Tesla agrees. But he found a way to generate electricity without burning fuel. This is more like a new kind of wiring.

 

[NutterButter]

is this something the oil companies will likely put the kibosh on?

Why would they? It doesn't generate the electricity is just distribution.

because whenever something good happens in this field, and it seems like the oil companies and their conservative overlords will lose money on it, it tends to disappear.

If it means easier charging of electric vehicles, then quite possibly.

 

[Da Guru]

Hopefully pipe less water will be next.

 

[Schlzm]

Hopefully pipe less water will be next.

Wait a second. Are we just moving to a thunderstorm methodology? Damn hippies tricking us all Schlzm

 

[BroadwayG]

What will they think of next? Electronic books?

 

[TheIronSheik]

Hopefully pipe less water will be next.

 

[skol asylum]

Hopefully pipe less water will be next.

It's called a dehumidifier. Just throw a Brita filter in there and a spout and voila, instant water cooler.

 

[Ilov80s]

Link doesn't work, but we already have wireless electricity, it's called a battery.

 

[NutterButter]

Link doesn't work, but we already have wireless electricity, it's called a battery.

Not truly wireless when it needs to be plugged in to charge.

 

[Riversco]

I'm ok with this but I want to pick my own mutant powers. I want flying.

 

[Ilov80s]

Link doesn't work, but we already have wireless electricity, it's called a battery.

Not truly wireless when it needs to be plugged in to charge.

There have to be wires somewhere. You are saying that cell phones are not wireless, laptops aren't wireless, wireless phones aren't wireless since they have to be plugged in at some point.

 

[NutterButter]

Link doesn't work, but we already have wireless electricity, it's called a battery.

Not truly wireless when it needs to be plugged in to charge.

There have to be wires somewhere. You are saying that cell phones are not wireless, laptops aren't wireless, wireless phones aren't wireless since they have to be plugged in at some point.

Sure there are wires, but none that you need to care about as far as your device is concerned; like wireless internet. You have a router hardwired, but as far as your devices are concerns, you just always have internet.

 

[Carolina Hustler]

Hopefully pipe less water will be next.

Wait a second. Are we just moving to a thunderstorm methodology? Damn hippies tricking us all Schlzm

It's all ball bearings

 

[Mr. Ected]

On a serious note, there is this 15 y.o. girl who invented a battery-less flashlight that runs on human heat.

Teen Invents Flashlight That Could Change The World

Ann Makosinski was just another teenager with another science project when she joined her local science fair in Victoria, Canada, last year. Her invention, a flashlight that is powered solely from hand heat, took second place at the competition.

Ann, 16, and her parents, both of whom are HAM radio operators and like to fiddle with electronics, were satisfied with that result.

“It’s a very simple project,” said Arthur Makosinski, Ann’s father. “It has four electrical components. Let’s move on and do something different.”

But had Ann left her project in Victoria, situated just 25 miles north of Washington State, the world may have missed out on a light source that doesn’t use batteries, solar power or wind energy.

Think about that for a moment: a flashlight that shines for as long as you hold onto it. No more scrambling for and chucking away AA batteries. It could have an immediate impact on more than 1.2 billion people -- one-fifth of the world’s population -- who, according to the World Bank, lack regular access to electricity.

Stunningly, no one on record has thought to use thermoelectric technology to power a flashlight. But for Ann, peltier tiles, which produce an electrical current when opposite sides are heated and cooled at the same time, were a convenient solution to a friend’s study problem.

Two years ago, Ann, who is half-Filipino, was corresponding with a friend of hers in the Philippines who didn’t have electricity. According to Ann, her friend couldn’t complete her homework and was failing in school.

“That was the inspiration for my project.” said Ann, “I just wanted to help my friend in the Philippines and my flashlight was a possible solution.”

Ann got to work. She remembered hearing human beings described as walking 100-volt light bulbs: “I thought, why not body heat? We have so much heat radiating out of us and it’s being wasted.”

After a few prototypes, she unveiled her “hollow flashlight,” so named because it has a hollow aluminum tube at its core that cools the sides of the peltier tiles attached to the flashlight’s cylinder. The other side is warmed by heat from a hand gripping the flashlight.

Ann spent several months designing the flashlight and figuring out its voltage conversion. Much has been written online about powering a flashlight with peltier tiles, but those devices used heat from candles and blow torches. Ann’s patent-pending prototype relies on hand warmth only and required that she make her own transformer, among other difference-making factors.

Art Makosinski remembers his surprise when Ann figured out how to light the flashlight’s bulbs at 20 millivolts: “I didn’t believe it, I had to inspect the circuit. I said what did you do here, do you have a hidden battery on the other side?”

At the behest of Kate Paine, her ninth grade marine biology teacher at St. Michaels University School, Ann submitted her flashlight into the 2013 Google Science Fair last spring. She promptly forget all about it. Thousands of kids apply from around the world. She said she didn’t think she had a chance.

A few months later, in September 2013, Ann was named a finalist in her age group. She travelled to Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., to present alongside equally impressive projects, like a cure for the common cold and a robotic exoskeleton. “I didn’t expect to win anything,” she said.

At the science fair’s gala night, Ann and Art mingled among top Google engineers, eminent scientists and some of the most innovative kids on the planet. Hers was the last name they expected to be called out the winner for her age group. When it was, Art almost dropped his camera. Ann floated to the stage as if welded to a conveyer belt; her face was frozen in shock.

Her prize was a trophy made out of Legos, a visit to the Lego Group headquarters in Denmark, and a $25,000 scholarship.

“I still have some of the same confetti that rained down,” said Ann. “Just an amazing experience and probably something I won’t experience ever again.”

When Ann returned to Victoria, she received a standing ovation at her high school’s Monday morning assembly. In the months since, she has given three TEDx talks and appeared on the

“Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”

"I think it’s a lesson that children can innovate," said Art Makosinski. "With the right incentive and environment, they can be quite innovative."

Many people have asked where she wants to attend university, expecting to her to name the likes of Stanford or MIT. Ann said she’s not thinking that far ahead; she needs to get through the eleventh grade first.

And then there’s the business of securing her flashlight’s patent and tweaking the prototype for market. At roughly 24 lumens, Ann’s flashlight’s brightness falls shy of commercial flashlights, which output dozens if not hundreds of lumens.

Of her efforts to increase her flashlight’s voltage efficiency, she said, “I want to make sure my flashlight is available to those who really need it.”

 

[Ilov80s]

Link doesn't work, but we already have wireless electricity, it's called a battery.

Not truly wireless when it needs to be plugged in to charge.

There have to be wires somewhere. You are saying that cell phones are not wireless, laptops aren't wireless, wireless phones aren't wireless since they have to be plugged in at some point.

Sure there are wires, but none that you need to care about as far as your device is concerned; like wireless internet. You have a router hardwired, but as far as your devices are concerns, you just always have internet.

I understand how it is an improvement, just pointing out that wireless electricity isn't new, but this could be a major step up. I wonder how efficient it is.

 

[NutterButter]

Link doesn't work, but we already have wireless electricity, it's called a battery.

Not truly wireless when it needs to be plugged in to charge.

There have to be wires somewhere. You are saying that cell phones are not wireless, laptops aren't wireless, wireless phones aren't wireless since they have to be plugged in at some point.

Sure there are wires, but none that you need to care about as far as your device is concerned; like wireless internet. You have a router hardwired, but as far as your devices are concerns, you just always have internet.

I understand how it is an improvement, just pointing out that wireless electricity isn't new, but this could be a major step up. I wonder how efficient it is.

Yeah, excellent question. As I was plugging in my laptop, was thinking how cool it would be to never have to do that again. You can probably shave a lot of weight off of laptops as you wouldn't need such a high capacity battery.

 

[Carolina Hustler]

On a serious note, there is this 15 y.o. girl who invented a battery-less flashlight that runs on human heat.

Teen Invents Flashlight That Could Change The World

Ann Makosinski was just another teenager with another science project when she joined her local science fair in Victoria, Canada, last year. Her invention, a flashlight that is powered solely from hand heat, took second place at the competition.

Ann, 16, and her parents, both of whom are HAM radio operators and like to fiddle with electronics, were satisfied with that result.

“It’s a very simple project,” said Arthur Makosinski, Ann’s father. “It has four electrical components. Let’s move on and do something different.”

But had Ann left her project in Victoria, situated just 25 miles north of Washington State, the world may have missed out on a light source that doesn’t use batteries, solar power or wind energy.

Think about that for a moment: a flashlight that shines for as long as you hold onto it. No more scrambling for and chucking away AA batteries. It could have an immediate impact on more than 1.2 billion people -- one-fifth of the world’s population -- who, according to the World Bank, lack regular access to electricity.

Stunningly, no one on record has thought to use thermoelectric technology to power a flashlight. But for Ann, peltier tiles, which produce an electrical current when opposite sides are heated and cooled at the same time, were a convenient solution to a friend’s study problem.

Two years ago, Ann, who is half-Filipino, was corresponding with a friend of hers in the Philippines who didn’t have electricity. According to Ann, her friend couldn’t complete her homework and was failing in school.

“That was the inspiration for my project.” said Ann, “I just wanted to help my friend in the Philippines and my flashlight was a possible solution.”

Ann got to work. She remembered hearing human beings described as walking 100-volt light bulbs: “I thought, why not body heat? We have so much heat radiating out of us and it’s being wasted.”

After a few prototypes, she unveiled her “hollow flashlight,” so named because it has a hollow aluminum tube at its core that cools the sides of the peltier tiles attached to the flashlight’s cylinder. The other side is warmed by heat from a hand gripping the flashlight.

Ann spent several months designing the flashlight and figuring out its voltage conversion. Much has been written online about powering a flashlight with peltier tiles, but those devices used heat from candles and blow torches. Ann’s patent-pending prototype relies on hand warmth only and required that she make her own transformer, among other difference-making factors.

Art Makosinski remembers his surprise when Ann figured out how to light the flashlight’s bulbs at 20 millivolts: “I didn’t believe it, I had to inspect the circuit. I said what did you do here, do you have a hidden battery on the other side?”

At the behest of Kate Paine, her ninth grade marine biology teacher at St. Michaels University School, Ann submitted her flashlight into the 2013 Google Science Fair last spring. She promptly forget all about it. Thousands of kids apply from around the world. She said she didn’t think she had a chance.

A few months later, in September 2013, Ann was named a finalist in her age group. She travelled to Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., to present alongside equally impressive projects, like a cure for the common cold and a robotic exoskeleton. “I didn’t expect to win anything,” she said.

At the science fair’s gala night, Ann and Art mingled among top Google engineers, eminent scientists and some of the most innovative kids on the planet. Hers was the last name they expected to be called out the winner for her age group. When it was, Art almost dropped his camera. Ann floated to the stage as if welded to a conveyer belt; her face was frozen in shock.

Her prize was a trophy made out of Legos, a visit to the Lego Group headquarters in Denmark, and a $25,000 scholarship.

“I still have some of the same confetti that rained down,” said Ann. “Just an amazing experience and probably something I won’t experience ever again.”

When Ann returned to Victoria, she received a standing ovation at her high school’s Monday morning assembly. In the months since, she has given three TEDx talks and appeared on the

“Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”

"I think it’s a lesson that children can innovate," said Art Makosinski. "With the right incentive and environment, they can be quite innovative."

Many people have asked where she wants to attend university, expecting to her to name the likes of Stanford or MIT. Ann said she’s not thinking that far ahead; she needs to get through the eleventh grade first.

And then there’s the business of securing her flashlight’s patent and tweaking the prototype for market. At roughly 24 lumens, Ann’s flashlight’s brightness falls shy of commercial flashlights, which output dozens if not hundreds of lumens.

Of her efforts to increase her flashlight’s voltage efficiency, she said, “I want to make sure my flashlight is available to those who really need it.”

Pretty cool, Now find some way to twist this into an F-U jab directed at republicans, some of us need that apparently..

 

[GroveDiesel]

 

[Ilov80s]

Link doesn't work, but we already have wireless electricity, it's called a battery.

Not truly wireless when it needs to be plugged in to charge.

There have to be wires somewhere. You are saying that cell phones are not wireless, laptops aren't wireless, wireless phones aren't wireless since they have to be plugged in at some point.

Sure there are wires, but none that you need to care about as far as your device is concerned; like wireless internet. You have a router hardwired, but as far as your devices are concerns, you just always have internet.

I understand how it is an improvement, just pointing out that wireless electricity isn't new, but this could be a major step up. I wonder how efficient it is.

Yeah, excellent question. As I was plugging in my laptop, was thinking how cool it would be to never have to do that again. You can probably shave a lot of weight off of laptops as you wouldn't need such a high capacity battery.

How large is the receiver that needs to be in the devices?

 

[NutterButter]

Link doesn't work, but we already have wireless electricity, it's called a battery.

Not truly wireless when it needs to be plugged in to charge.

There have to be wires somewhere. You are saying that cell phones are not wireless, laptops aren't wireless, wireless phones aren't wireless since they have to be plugged in at some point.

Sure there are wires, but none that you need to care about as far as your device is concerned; like wireless internet. You have a router hardwired, but as far as your devices are concerns, you just always have internet.

I understand how it is an improvement, just pointing out that wireless electricity isn't new, but this could be a major step up. I wonder how efficient it is.

Yeah, excellent question. As I was plugging in my laptop, was thinking how cool it would be to never have to do that again. You can probably shave a lot of weight off of laptops as you wouldn't need such a high capacity battery.

How large is the receiver that needs to be in the devices?

They anticipate it being in all cell phones so it must be pretty small.