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Comment by m463

2 years ago

You can hold up fluorescent tubes under high voltage power lines and they will light up.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fluorescent+tubes+power+lines&iar=...

I've always wondered why drones didn't just come with qi charger landing pads.

> didn't just come with qi charger landing pads.

Weight, qi chargers aren’t just an antenna they require power handling electronics. Getting the exact right DC voltage to charge a battery from two lightweight wires is just simpler internally.

Let's take that a step farther and have the drone implement direct coupling and charge while flying near the power lines.

  • Guessing a magnetic torque would be applied while flying that said drone would have to counter.