[PA Engineer]

No matter what other reasons this advance is good, this particular bullet point is Typical Magical Thinking by those trapped in green prison.

This is actually insane. To maintain 100 watts with distance, they will have to install much larger guage cable to overcome resistance losses. Tesla will be laughing in his grave when they electrocute the first elephant with this 100 watt wonder.

Imagine spilling your coffee in the Monday morning manager meeting. I can see the headline. A "green" accident electrocuted the entire project leader staff of Gaia ACME company.

[Cboldt]

i think not much distance involved, on the order of 5 meters. Found this description of the specifications ...

"So with this new specification, you can go from very small devices with 5 volts, 2 amps or 10 watts -- where USB starts -- up to 20 volts 5 amps and 100 watts," Ravencraft said. "This power delivery capability is going to extend the ease of use for consumers, reduce clutter in the work and home environment, but also reduce electronic waste filling up landfills with custom chargers."

Consumers toss out millions of battery chargers every year. In fact, cell phone chargers account for almost 100,000 tons of trash annually in the U.S. In the E.U., chargers represent about 51,000 tons of landfill waste.