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will also provide wireless charging for many other types of electric vehicles such as golf carts, specialty and industrial vehicles. Vehicles that support this type of solution will also support in-vehicle wireless charging for mobile devices while driving. This will, in turn, reduce the need for power cords by passengers, or for add-on devices sold into the automotive aftermarket. Buildings that incorporate this technology will be not need to have physical wiring in all locations of a facility, thus potentially reducing building and maintenance costs. You will be able to deploy even more IoT sensors and solutions through which the need to bring power to each nook and cranny is minimized. Imagine being able to deploy security systems around the exterior of your house with no wiring needed, and add lights and appliances where you need them, not where it was possible due to electrical outlets. Have your cordless tools simply charge when not in use, not to mention phones, computers and tablets. Imagine the possibilities for military
use. Soldiers, vehicles, covert sensors, unmanned robots and drones, and a whole plethora of battery-powered devices will now be able to operate without the need for replacement batteries. They will just spend some time next to an area that supports wireless charging. In comparison, aviation only has a few
experimental all-electric aircraft, and has barely moved in its eff orts to get greener — mostly by trying to utilize a 1920’s technology pioneered by Fischer and Tropsch, and which converts biomass to liquid fuel. This is a process in which a collection of chemical reactions converts a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen into liquid hydrocarbons — basically making petrol from coal, gas or plants (the preferred greener choice that aviation is pursuing). With heavy funding from governments, a number of commercial fl ights have been made with a mixture of biofuels resulting from this process (and others) to prove the viability of these greener biofuels, but there is no widespread commercial use as of yet. With oil prices dropping like a rock as of late, it is doubtful that anyone will invest in this in a substantial way until it is economically viable to do so.
Back to wireless power. This will be big. Real big. It will
take some time, perhaps even an entire generation, in order to move away from primarily using wired power in most use cases. With Toyota using this for the 2016 Prius and other commercial and military uses coming along swiftly, the slow adoption by aviation of alternate fuel sources is already trumped by the looming launch of wireless power. Aviation’s eff orts to fi nd alternate means of powering aircraft look ancient in comparison.
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