Dave can smell marketing bullshit a mile away, so checks out the new RCA WiFi Free Energy Harvesting "Airnergy" device with some back of the envelope calculations. Marketing bullshit or can it actually work?
Can you really charge your smartphone with Wifi Energy?
Watch the RCA video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMMbihbeIls

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25 thoughts on “Eevblog #55 – rca airnergy wifi charging free energy harvesting marketing bs”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ryan Beard says:

    Will it harvest more if you blast it w an air compressor, lol.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Don Wald says:

    Would this work to counter self-discharge?

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars JustARandomHorse 666 says:

    Another thing to take into account is what's going to power the charging circuit and efficiency curve.

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Trung Le says:

    so touching for an excellent video

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars WagonLoads says:

    And if your phone is on, you are using more energy than you are collecting.. You would do better with a real(not fake) solar panel..
    How many square inches of solar would you need to equal the charge rate of wall power.??

    5v * 3a = 15 Watts (Ideal)

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Marsh Legions says:

    Hi Dave. What if now electronics run on micro volts? Is there reason for RF harnessing afterall?

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Christopher Howell says:

    Mine just finished charging. I was probably a bit more than a meter away.

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars sefa lök says:

    So what is the situations in 2020 ??

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars The Espatier says:

    At least it’s fully charged by now (2019).

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Donald Sleightholme says:

    it’s alternating current apparently? if you had a antenna and some ferrite with copper… 🤔🤷‍♂️🥳

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Wilbert Birdner says:

    you've come a long way in 8 years Dave, i mean who would have thought you would own a real white board!

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars redstone craft guy says:

    I pretty sure the battery self discharge faster than this "wifi charger" can charge it.

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Fried Mule says:

    On the other hand it do properly create about 10.000 times as much energy than "Super freaking roadways" and will properly cost 1 : 1,000,000,000 of the roadway:-)

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Pratik Panda says:

    Why can't people just get their butt off the bed and plug the thing in?
    This is 2017 and stuff like this is still showig up here and there. Haha!

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Fresco L says:

    Apple bout to get sued

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Andrew E says:

    Ofcourse if you had an old nokia you only needed to charge it every 8 years.

  17. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Konuralp Balcik says:

    word is not 1 anten work 🙂 How many radio channels are there. How many gsm antennas are watt?

  18. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Fred Miller says:

    Maybe RCA uses gigawatt wifi. Ya' ever considered that?

  19. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Rangy Tang says:

    To add on to the 10 router discussion: The electromagnetic waves from the routers will most likely be out of phase, and as they meet in space they'll interfere with each other and cancel out at some points (destructive interference) and amplify each other at some points (constructive interference). This means that at some points in space it wouldn't even charge at all, and the theoretical maximum would be your calculated value x10 but it could charge at any multiplicity between 0-10. So you'd have to have A LOT of routers for it to even be viable, but also you need to find the sweet spot to get the highest efficiency every time you charge your phone. I agree, this is absolutely BS!

  20. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars punker 4 real says:

    maybe a pinwheel and cd motor would make more power then that rubish

  21. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars punker 4 real says:

    better off pulging the phone into the wallwart

  22. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars georgie porgie says:

    " what can you do " ? Laugh !

  23. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars georgie porgie says:

    Mind you, You could charge your phone from his energy !

  24. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars georgie porgie says:

    Only airenergy you can use to charge your phone is with a ballon on a wire in a thunder storm

  25. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars georgie porgie says:

    lUV THIS GEZZER, Must have the best aussie acent on the planet

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