Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones

• warm@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  https://www.ifixit.com/News/94409/wireless-charging-trading-efficiency-for-convenience

  It's true, but wireless charging is still inefficient and should be avoided.

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  • iopq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s literally a few watt hours. Not kilowatt hours, watt hours. I pay $0.08 per kwh, so after a few years of wireless charging I might pay $1 more

    But the USB-C cord might break in less than that time and cost more. Manufacturing cords is never going to be green, but electricity can be made renewable

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    • warm@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The charging pad might also break and they require cables themselves, plus all the materials to make the charging pad, plus every phone has to support wireless, which is even more materials. I've never broken a USB-C cable, that's a user issue, you are either being way too aggressive with them, buying low quality ones, or both.

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      • iopq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You keep on connecting and reconnecting the USB-C cable, and if you use it while charging you probably bend it.

        The cable in the charging pad never gets unplugged

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