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True Wireless Power is FINALLY here (building a TRULY wire-free desk setup) (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[+] [email protected] -9 points 1 week ago (27 children)

Why is this a video and not an article? Makes me think it's just bullshit

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Did you even watch the video? It's a well-produced piece of content from a pretty well-known individual

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Because it is bullshit lol.

Wireless efficiency is around 70%-75% max with something like that; EMF and RMF issues abound in any configuration without shielding, which this one has none of. I am surprised anything works.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm not willing to pay a 30% higher electrical bill for something like this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

It wouldn't be a 30% higher electrical bill overall. It would be 30% more for whatever power you're using for this specific device, which, if it's ordinarily 10W while in sleep and an average 100W while in use, and you use it 50 hours per week, or 215 hours per month, that's a baseline power usage of 21500 watt hours in use and 5050 watt hours from idle/sleep/suspend. Or a total of 26550 watt hours, or 26.5 kWh. At 20 cents per kWh, you're talking about $5.30 per month in electricity for the computer. A 30% increase would be an extra $1.60 per month.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I'd only consider it if I had the first world problem of overly efficient solar panels.

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