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- Comment on Fiber internet provider says it can detect leaking water pipes using existing infrastructure, prevented loss of 2 million liters a day over three months 2 weeks ago:
Weird, and interesting.
How long until this is extended into some new dystopian surveillance device, tracking footsteps or something…
- Comment on First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving 3 months ago:
Also, supplying electricity to fast moving ground vehicles isn’t new, just look at… every high speed rail system ever…
- Comment on First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving 3 months ago:
Yeah, this sounds stupid, and I’m worried about the amount of power wasted by induction charging. Anyone who’s wirelessly charged a phone knows it can get quite hot; that’s wasted energy. And Indiana’s generation is still mostly natural gas and coal, so at some point, with enough losses in transmission and charging, you’ll end up with a higher-carbon vehicle than a diesel truck…
I am not sure what that point is, but the efficiency of charging is an important consideration in my mind.