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> We all want to save the planet we should not be wireless charging until we get a much higher efficiency setup. I doubt that those couple of watts per phone w
by ReptileMan 3y ago
> We all want to save the planet we should not be wireless charging until we get a much higher efficiency setup.
I doubt that those couple of watts per phone will make a dent even if we multiply them by a billion. Wireless charging is 70% efficient in theory, but lets move to 50. So a 17 watthours battery (biggest currently in phones) would waste 17 watthours per charge - equivalent of my any of those - my induction hob, my oven, my electric water heater or my oven working for 30 seconds. Or my gaming PC for that matter.
so 7 billion people, fully charging their phone each day, the phone battery being the biggest one on the market - each year they will waste around 0.17 percent of world electricity production. But since wired charging is also not 100% efficient - if we give it 90% efficiency - this means that we are saving in that case 0.12 percent of world electricity.
I doubt that it will save the planet. The only think it will help is make some people feel righteous with symbolic gestures.
- ztrww 3y ago> 0.12 percent of world electricity That seems a lot? I’d have guessed it’s a magnitude or two less
- ReptileMan 3y agoIt probably is order of magnitude less in reality since I was looking at worst case - chargers are actually 70-sh percent efficient not 50 which almost halves it. Also far from everyone on the planet has a mobile phone, let alone high end flagship. What I mean is that there are much easier fruits to pick without sacrificing even tiny bit quality of life.
- thefurdrake 3y agoThe estimate was given assuming every person on the planet fully charged their phone every day. The number's going to be higher than reality.