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Old 06-16-2014, 01:20 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
You'll notice they're talking about nanoWatts. A charger typically requires 5W - ie a billion times more .
They're talking about about N times 100 nanowatts, so we're only talking about at most 50 million times more. It's just a matter of the value of N.....

Seriously though, while I only skimmed the patent, and I don't know how big this thing currently is, or the practical values of N at this point, the patent is not talking about an invention that is a drop in replacement for current chargers. And it does say:

"The Energy Reclamation System or ERS of the present invention can provide sufficient power (e.g., 0.1-1 mW) to perpetually operate low power wireless devices without external recharging."

That's already on the order of powering a BLE device, say.
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