We all share the frustration with wires running to and fro from all our latest gadgets at home and the office. That’s why most of us have forked out the extra buck for a wireless mouse, keyboard, modem and network just to mention a few. There is nothing more unsightly than wires drooping out the back of your desk or workstation, especially if they are not cable-tied.
If I take my desk at home there are still a lot of cables hanging around the unfriendly neighbourhood of my feet. My ‘wireless’ mouse and keyboard still need batteries to operate and they both work off a base station that is wired in any rate! My modem still needs power as well as the router with individual transformers, so they are still ugly wireless objects. Then there is still a printer, camera station, GPS connector, monitor, speakers, earphones…I think you get the point…cable tiers nightmare!
The biggest, fattest, ugliest cable of them all (other than the monitors serial) is still the power cable to the computer it self. Any power cable is a nasty thing especially as mentioned above when it is accompanied by a transformer. So how about we just get our power from out of space!! Now that you are imbued with aching stomach muscles I just need to reiterate…lets get our sparks from the heavens and lets toss those ankle tapers in the bin (recycle bin if you have in your country).
There are two things that can make this a reality: a microwave and a crystal glass!
Well not quite but almost, let me explain. David Criswell (University of Houston) has spoken about sending electricity to earth via microwave. All that you would need is a lot of solar panels on the moon that will catch the rays and transmit it to earth, a few thousand receivers here and a rectennae to convert it to electricity and we’re set to go.
So how do we get the shocker to charge our laptops, cell phones and electric toothbrush wirelessly? Simple, with the crystal glass of course! Its called non-radiative energy transfer. If we all know what electromagnetism is then we are at a good start, the problem with it though is that it emits energy in all directions and the other coil needs to be very close for it to receive the electric charge. With non-radiative energy however it is transferred in resonance to another unit by using the resonance of its own coils to transfer more directly to another coil with the same resonance. Almost like a crystal class being twined and making the other glasses of same shape and disposition vibrate around it, hit the right pitch and they all shatter together! In this all the units with the same coil resonance will not shatter but receive a direct electric charge, with no wires attached.
Obviously they are still trying to increase the range of this but it is already sitting at over 5 meters. So lets all go down to our local store and get us one of these non-radiative energy kits hey? Not for the next few years I guess…we will have to face those revolting wires just a tad longer.
