Great idea, and great video! It would be interesting to see how easy it would be to retrofit existing diesel buses with regenerative breaking. And I suppose this would also require all cell phones to be equipped with receivers for wireless power, which is currently not the case.
@MultiModalLife Check out the end of the video for a demo on wireless electricity. You're absolutely right, new inventions and changes in industry would have to take place before our idea could ever become a reality, but charging cell phones with wireless energy will happen. The problem is, wireless energy is wasteful, you expel too much into the surrounding environment -- unless you use energy from green sources like braking buses or solar panes on your windowsill -- but it's a solution.
Can you provide me with the stats for the 10% of people that unplug their cell phones would power Victoria and N Vancouver. All cell phone users in BC, Canada, the US, World? It also seems the 75% waste by devices is inaccurate. Is that when one is not having their TV or stove on. Because Vampire loads only draw around 5-10% total, so it seems your stats are inaccurate or misleading. Can you help explain your values?
@geoffrider The description of the video has the works we cited to get our facts. The vampire loads facts we're from a study by the US Department of Energy, and we used European homes as a comparison to our homes, using Stats Canada to find how many dwelling units would equate to how many homes we could power. That stat references all cell phone users in the world in 2006, which is likely to be a lot more than now, even so we felt that it made a point. Energy can be found in unknown places.
wireless electricity? how does that work? :D
TheUniqueGamer 5 months ago
@TheUniqueGamer Take a look at the link at the end of the video (or check the description) for a TED demo
DevynBrugge 5 months ago
@DevynBrugge i thought if induction if its called so in english, but i dont think it works over meeter .. iÄll just look @ those videos :D
TheUniqueGamer 5 months ago
Great idea, and great video! It would be interesting to see how easy it would be to retrofit existing diesel buses with regenerative breaking. And I suppose this would also require all cell phones to be equipped with receivers for wireless power, which is currently not the case.
MultiModalLife 1 year ago
@MultiModalLife Check out the end of the video for a demo on wireless electricity. You're absolutely right, new inventions and changes in industry would have to take place before our idea could ever become a reality, but charging cell phones with wireless energy will happen. The problem is, wireless energy is wasteful, you expel too much into the surrounding environment -- unless you use energy from green sources like braking buses or solar panes on your windowsill -- but it's a solution.
DevynBrugge 1 year ago
Great idea, and great video! It would be interesting to see how easy it would be to retrofit existing diesel buses with regenerative breaking.
MultiModalLife 1 year ago
Can you provide me with the stats for the 10% of people that unplug their cell phones would power Victoria and N Vancouver. All cell phone users in BC, Canada, the US, World? It also seems the 75% waste by devices is inaccurate. Is that when one is not having their TV or stove on. Because Vampire loads only draw around 5-10% total, so it seems your stats are inaccurate or misleading. Can you help explain your values?
geoffrider 1 year ago
@geoffrider The description of the video has the works we cited to get our facts. The vampire loads facts we're from a study by the US Department of Energy, and we used European homes as a comparison to our homes, using Stats Canada to find how many dwelling units would equate to how many homes we could power. That stat references all cell phone users in the world in 2006, which is likely to be a lot more than now, even so we felt that it made a point. Energy can be found in unknown places.
DevynBrugge 1 year ago
nice message :)
Shortz 1 year ago