{"id":245232,"date":"2026-10-11T09:13:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T14:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/wireless-energy-internet-roadmap-charts-path-to-light-heat-and-motion-without-batteries"},"modified":"2026-10-11T09:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T14:13:06","slug":"wireless-energy-internet-roadmap-charts-path-to-light-heat-and-motion-without-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/wireless-energy-internet-roadmap-charts-path-to-light-heat-and-motion-without-batteries","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wireless energy internet\u2019 roadmap charts path to light, heat and motion without batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wireless-energy-internet-roadmap-charts-path-to-light-heat-and-motion-without-batteries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wireless charging has already transformed how people power phones, wearables and even electric vehicles. The next leap is to advance wireless technologies beyond delivering electrical energy to directly producing nonelectrical outputs, such as optical, thermal and mechanical energy, according to actual needs. This would create an energy delivery network as flexible and efficient as the internet.<\/p>\n<p>To drive this transformation, researchers at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have conducted a study that sets out a technical roadmap for a \u201cwireless energy internet,\u201d guiding the industry from \u201cwireless power transfer\u201d toward direct \u201cwireless energy conversion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44287-026-00279-6\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wireless charging has already transformed how people power phones, wearables and even electric vehicles. The next leap is to advance wireless technologies beyond delivering electrical energy to directly producing nonelectrical outputs, such as optical, thermal and mechanical energy, according to actual needs. This would create an energy delivery network as flexible and efficient as the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1512,17,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-mobile-phones","category-sustainability","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}