Comment by doikor
2 years ago
That is going to be really hard (impossible?) to monitor for billing purposes. Basically would have to resort to self reporting/honor system.
2 years ago
That is going to be really hard (impossible?) to monitor for billing purposes. Basically would have to resort to self reporting/honor system.
As others have pointed out, the energy consumed would literally be “too cheap to meter.”
More realistic would be that, If fully realized, this becomes a great secondary income stream for the power line owners.
Not only do they get to monitor their own lines with self-powering drones, but they rent out access to delivery drones, traffic monitoring drones, and (yes) whatever nefarious and helpful uses people dream up. Monitoring would not have to be perfect in order for them to still make huge profits.
Seems more akin to how the railroad companies realized that could make a fortune by using their right-of-ways for communications cables.
And for monitoring: seems like an obvious solution would be to have monitoring drones that watch for usage by other drones. :)
Or good old fashioned theft.