- chirospasm ( @chirospasm@lemmy.ml ) 25•2 months ago
Tesla, himself, is giving a gentle thumbs up from his grave.
- prole ( @prole@beehaw.org ) English10•2 months ago
Ooooohhh can’t wait to see the idiotic conspiracy theories about this…
Also, just more shit for crystal mommies with no scientific literacy to use to try to explain “energy” to me.
- CO5MO ✨ ( @c0smokram3r@midwest.social ) 4•2 months ago
Crystal mommies 💀🤣💀🤣💀🤣
- nondescripthandle ( @nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 6•2 months ago
Isn’t this similar to principle behind The Great Seal Bug? I thought we knew blasting RF at a specific receiver can create energy.
- qjkxbmwvz ( @qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ) 5•2 months ago
Yeah, you can also find “crystal radio” kits — radio receivers that use only the received RF to produce sound (no external power source).
- Sonori ( @sonori@beehaw.org ) 3•2 months ago
This is also how passive RFID tags work, the tag harvests just enough energy from the scanning frequency to boot up a microchip and respond with its ID number.
- nondescripthandle ( @nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 3•2 months ago
The article talks a lot about their rectifier and im guessing that’s where the ‘breakthrough’ is, but still I feel this is like too many of these articles where its a lot of hype for a little progress.
- BellaDonna ( @BellaDonna@mujico.org ) 4•2 months ago
Uhm, how is this fundamentally different from a crystal radio? I’ve built this exact concept from a science kit, and this is a concept that’s been proven for decades.
- IrritableOcelot ( @IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ) 2•2 months ago
It’s…not. The original press release is typically hype-y, but the part that toms hardware article really mangled is that they didnt find a way to do it, they found a new design for a device to do it.
- Em Adespoton ( @adespoton@lemmy.ca ) 3•2 months ago
Did they discover it in online news articles from 6 years ago?
- smeeps ( @smeeps@lemmy.mtate.me.uk ) 2•2 months ago
Wonder if this can be used to power ZigBee smart sensors. My current battery ones last about 2 years on a coin cell
- BZ 🇨🇦 ( @bzarb8ni@lemm.ee ) 2•2 months ago
That’s really cool.
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 1•2 months ago
I’ve seen a whole-home wireless charger at some convention. Would be super nifty for home automation and such.