Quantum entangled batteries could be the perfect power source

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Here's a link that doesn't crash my iPad: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/507176/entanglement-mak...

It's amazing to me how many media outlets still don't optimize for embedded, given today's usage numbers.

ExtremeTech does think they're optimizing for mobile, though. What's really amazing is how they apparently never use their "optimized" versions themselves.

It's going beyond screwing up mobile. I've noticed over the last few months a great increase in the number of major sites that are crappy on the desktop, too.

For instance, many sites behave poorly if you have the audacity to use your browser's zoom feature. Their floating social sidebars intrude into the text, or the margin goes completely away, or the text extends into the sidebar.

It's getting to the point where blog spam is often preferable to the original.

Can we use quantum entanglement to transfer energy without a physical connection? Could we transfer enough energy to charge an iPhone?

I was trying to work out the same thing. The no-communication theorem says that you can't transfer data using entangled particles -- but would that apply to energy as well? Not sure. Need a quantum physicist...

Is energy classified as information?

Noisy, staticy, lossy EM fields do provide electromotive force. This is why data and power cables are often separated.

I mean in a quantum mechanical sense. (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_information)

The ability of something to cause a random side-effect does not necessarily mean that something is information.

Since you can measure energy, it's pretty clear that it counts as information.

However, the theorem you mention only rules out instantaneous transfer of information.

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