Published on Jun 05, 2023
Currently, wired electricity powers nearly everything. It travels through wires in the form of Alternating Current, and powers most of our devices in the form of Direct Current. In our present electricity generation system we waste more than half of its resources. Especially the transmission and distribution losses are the main concern of the present power technology.
Witricity is nothing but the short name of Wireless Electricity. The basic concept behind this is Magnetic Resonance. Two resonant objects of the same resonant frequency tend to exchange energy efficiently, while dissipating relatively little energy in extraneous off-resonant objects. In systems of coupled resonances, there is often a general "Strongly Coupled" regime of operation. If one can operate inthat regime in a given system, the energy transfer is expected to be very efficient.
Midrange power transfer implemented in this way can be nearly omni directional and efficient, irrespective of the geometry of the surrounding space, with low interference and losses into environmental objects. The above considerations apply irrespective of the physical nature of the resonances. Magnetic resonances are particularly suitable for everyday applications because most of the common materials do not interact with Magnetic Fields, so interactions with Environmental objects are suppressed even further. We were able to identify the strongly coupled regime in the system of two coupled magnetic resonances by exploring Non-radioactive (near-field) magnetic resonant induction at Megahertz frequencies.
Need of Witricity:
Now a days there is a Rapid development of autonomous electronics like laptops, cell-phones, house-hold robots and all the above devices typically rely on chemical energy storage(Battery) .As they are becoming daily needs to present generation, Wireless energy transfer would be useful for many applications as above and they need midrange energy.
Currently, wired electricity powers nearly everything. It travels through wires in the form of Alternating Current, and powers most of our devices in the form of Direct Current. In our present electricity generation system we waste more than half of its resources. Especially the transmission and distribution losses are the main concern of the present power technology.
The resistance of the wire used in the electrical grid distribution system causes a loss of 26-30% of the energy generated. This loss implies that our present system of electrical distribution is only 70-74% efficient. We have to think of alternate technology to transmit and distribute the electricity. The transmission of power without wires may be one noble alternative for electricity transmission.
Prof. Marin Soljacic from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is the one who has proved that magnetic coupled resonance can be utilized in order to transfer energy without wires. What's even more interesting is how he came about this idea. Soljacic, just like any of us was fed up of his 'low battery' beeping cell phone and wondered just like any of us if there was a way to get rid of this 'charging problem'.
