Saturday, 16 November 2013

"With Great Power comes Great Responsibility !!"



We live in a very sophisticated world full of threats and dangers. In the past 10 years, the number of wars, acts of terrorism and socio-political tension have increased immensely. This has caused countries to heavily invest in technology to out rank its potential enemies, to be prepared when ever necessary.

As Will McAvoy so eloquently puts it, the United States is the leader amongst all nations in terms of defence spending, where it spends more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of which happen to be Allies !!! For those of you who don't know, the defence budget of the US for the year 2013 was 672.9 billion USD.

So where does wireless power fit into all this ??? Well... in todays world, weapon systems are engineered in such a way, that they provide soldiers on the ground with the best possible survival chance and the capability to eliminate the enemy. Most of the gadgets with soldiers use today like GPS, Night Vision, mobile communication etc. And all these gadgets are powered by electricity.

Soldiers have only limited access to power on the battle field. Most of them have some or the other form of potable battery in their helmets or carry a rechargeable battery with them to power these devices in the battle field.

Wireless power would eliminate the cables which are running through the military suite of a soldier. It would be possible to include wireless power transmitters in tanks on the battle field to power the electronic equipment being used by soldiers.

An article dated July 27th 2011 states that :

"The Defense Sciences Office (DSO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking ideas that may support a new DARPA program to demonstrate concepts and technologies to dramatically increase the Department of Defense's (DoD) technology for short-range (less than two meters) wireless transmission of power. The US Marine Corps and the US Army have determined that the increased use of critical portable electronics on the battlefield has led to an increase in the number and types of batteries Warfighters are required to carry for essential electronics equipment such as communications, positioning, and targeting."

Source: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=d2b20bbc41f7577b536b32be305f4c90&tab=core&_cview=0

You might also have Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's) in the near future hovering over battlefields transmitting wireless power to soldiers and taking town enemies at the same time.





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