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nospamkhanman t1_izeucli wrote

Reply to comment by mancinedinburgh in Scientists design windows that convert sunlight into wireless Internet by mancinedinburgh

> sounds cool though to me that wireless Internet could be provided to entire offices or homes through adapted glass windows.

For one, night exists.

The other thing is, it's probably more efficient for the windows to just convert the solar energy directly to electricity and power tiny wireless access points.

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Flaky-Fish6922 t1_iziccn6 wrote

or if for some reason you're really hellbent on using light as a medium for transmission, an infrared system. feels a lot like they has a solution and went looking for a problem.

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