{"id":125,"date":"2009-06-09T10:26:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T14:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/energyanarchy.com\/news\/?p=125"},"modified":"2019-11-18T19:32:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T00:32:03","slug":"gadget-charger-harvests-wireless-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/energyanarchy.com\/news\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Gadget Charger Harvests Wireless Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emerging technology: &#8220;Ambient electromagnetic radiation&#8211;emitted from Wi-Fi transmitters, cell-phone antennas, TV masts, and other sources&#8211;can be converted into enough electrical current to keep a battery topped up, says Markku Rouvala, a researcher from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/research.nokia.com\/research\/labs\/nrc_cambridge_uk_laboratory\" target=\"_blank\">Nokia Research Centre<\/a>, in Cambridge, U.K.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rouvala says that Nokia&#8217;s prototype can harvest up to 50 milliwatts of power&#8211;enough to slowly recharge a phone, or keep it running in standby mode. &#8220;You can basically have it on standby indefinitely,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Historically, energy-harvesting technologies have only been found in niche markets, powering wireless sensors and RFID tags in particular. If Nokia&#8217;s claims stand up, then it could push energy harvesting into mainstream consumer devices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nokia is being cagey with the details of the project, but Rouvala is confident about its future: &#8220;I would say it is possible to put this into a product within three to four years.&#8221; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Full article:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/beta.technologyreview.com\/communications\/22764\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/beta.technologyreview.com\/communications\/22764\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emerging technology: &#8220;Ambient electromagnetic radiation&#8211;emitted from Wi-Fi transmitters, cell-phone antennas, TV masts, and other sources&#8211;can be converted into enough electrical current to keep a battery topped up, says Markku Rouvala, a researcher from the\u00a0Nokia Research Centre, in Cambridge, U.K. &#8220;Rouvala says that Nokia&#8217;s prototype can harvest up to 50 milliwatts of power&#8211;enough to slowly recharge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/energyanarchy.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/energyanarchy.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/energyanarchy.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/energyanarchy.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/energyanarchy.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/energyanarchy.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"http:\/\/energyanarchy.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/energyanarchy.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/energyanarchy.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/energyanarchy.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}