EEVblog #1001 - uBeam Ultrasonic Wireless Charging DEBUNKED!

Dave debunks the uBeam / SonicEnergy ultrasonic wireless phone charging technology and explains why this will NEVER be a practical solution.
Also, Meredith Perry's rant on engineers and other experts.
NOTE: This was split out from video #1000 for SEO reasons. There should be a debunking video of this searchable on Youtube.
Some extra material has been added from video #1000 at the 11:58 mark

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/the-ubeam-faq/

Paul Reynolds, former VP Engineering at uBeam!
On Non-linearity: http://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com.au/2016/05/acoustic-nonlinearity.html
On why uBeam won't be practical: http://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com.au/2017/06/arguing-point.html

I challenge you to watch all 15min of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukgnU2aXM2c

USA Today video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c0kzTCRWU4

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