wireless power transmission ideas

[Stevil]

ok, basically these ideas are going to be lame as but it's a start.

 

the laser->cell method:

u have ur generator and coming out of it is a litte wire

on the end is a laser

then on the other end is ur device, say a lightbulb

and a little wire coming out of that too. on the end of that is a solar cell.

aim ur laser at the solar cell and hey presto, power to the globe.

doubts: do lasers even work on solar cells, if not use like a torch.

downfalls: u have to have direct line of sight with ur target

probably not so good over distances

small amounts of power

 

the biological method:

we all know that plants can produce energy from light, so why can't we exploit this fact.

have ur little laser/torch thing but shine it on a little biological mass on the other side which converts the energy into a useable form.

this suffers from the same kind of things as the previous methoud.

 

ok, i know these are probably totally flawed, but i'd like to know y they are. that's the only way i can learn and refine aint it?

[blike]

I'm not sure about the laser idea. I think a lot of energy would be lost creating the laser, and then more would be lost when the solar cell tries to harvest it again because they're not 100% efficient.

 

Their are other ideas along that line though...so you're not way off base.. Microwave transmission is an option. I think x-ray and gamma ray transmission, because of their high frequency, would be a good means of wireless energy transfer. However they're not too healthy for us living things. They'd have to be pretty well controlled.