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Old 04-01-2016, 17:18   #519
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Re: The future for linear TV channels
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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
It took you three minutes to find a link that doesn't address the problem, let alone propose a solution. Again, I suspect that you're not engaging with this issue any deeper than "I like it, therefore everyone will like it, and everyone's home will become like mine". You go on the Internet and look only as far as you think you need to, to find something which on first glance, appears to support your pre-conceived beliefs about the future.

Harvesting a few watts from stray radio transmissions is all very well, but the developers themselves see this as a means of powering small, low-power devices such as wireless sensors and security cameras. It isn't going to get anywhere near the 70+ terawatt-hours per annum that our national Internet infrastructure is projected to require within the next 20 years, at current rate of expansion.

You can't get around the simple, practical obstacle here: the only thing that can generate the kind of power needed to bring about your vision of the future is a power station. Actually, lots of power stations. Big ones. They are very expensive to build, and take years from planning to commissioning.

And here's one for you, Sherlock: the developers are mostly harvesting power from TV transmissions (presumably because these are the highest-powered and most widely dispersed).

What will happen to their experiments if all the TV transmitters are switched off, as you keep predicting?
I'm trying (not very successfully) to demonstrate that technological solutions become available when the demand is there to solve a problem.

You have presented a doomsday scenario, which is what the media tries to do all the time. You need to balance this with the facts.

Did you also read that Andrew Lord, head of optical research at BT and a visiting professor at Essex University, is insistent that scientists will come up with a solution. He reckons that storing information in large 'server farms', rather than transferring it, would take the strain off the network. The internet is not about to collapse and it has a lot of bandwidth left in it is what he says.

Additionally, BT is working with leading universities on new research to ensure future demand for the internet is met. A BT spokeswoman is reported to have said:

"The current generation of technology will exceed bandwidth needs for many years to come, but of course new technologies will be needed to cope with continued growth in demand further into the future.

"We're now working with leading universities and other global operators to kick off a new phase of research, ensuring that we move beyond the limitations of the current generation of technology to meet customers' demands in future decades.'

I am not saying there are no problems, but we will resolve them. Not many years ago, we were told that fossil fuels would run out in 2050. Not the case now, though, is it, with more exploration discovering new oil fields, the advent of fracking, etc.

Just because we cannot do something now does not mean that we will not be doing it in the future. The world will move on, as it always does.
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