With 65 percent of energy wasted, wireless charging has a way to go.
Imagine huge transcontinental airliners powered by wireless energy, cruising the skies unburdened by bulky fossil-fuel tanks. Such a future was imagined for 1985 in the science-fiction novel Haunted Airways, published in 1937. Instead, 1985 brought us Cherry Coke and Madonna’s “Like a Virgin.”
Thirty years later, we still don’t have those fabulous, wireless-powered airliners. But we’re getting Wi-Fi in coach class, so at least …read more
