cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48740151
📱 firms have chased faster charging for a long 🕑 now. What if the trend of higher efficiency starts? Electricity isn’t free. What if the charger makers market the efficiency markedly? There may be an efficiency race, just like the long-running power race. Some may pick a 370-W but more efficient charger over a 400-W but less efficient 1. I’m talking re the future, so mad values. Ideally, the engineers can make a 400-W and incredibly efficient charger. Thoughts?
GAN is not just faster and smaller, it’s side effect is also efficiency.
But it’s currently still a high end way of going power switching. So it’s more expensive, so not all power supplies use it yet
House power wise our biggest users are AC appliances (heat pumps) they do not benefit from a more efficient DC adapter.
A phone at 5000mah who charges every day from 0-100% would use 5Ax4.2Vx365d = 7,665 Kwh x €0,22 = €1,68 (excluding efficiency loses). This is too small to make reasable investments in phone adapters. But I do see that a better computer power supply (when use regularly) can make a difference to your power bill
👍 point. The high-power appliances must be more efficient.