We know how to do it, it’s just super inefficient.
It was basically omnidirectional high powered high frequency induction, wasn’t it?
I think it also has a high chance to electrocute anything or anyone not grounded? At least that’s what I gleaned from the old Nikola Tesla theoretical city-wide wireless power grid idea?
I think he was making great progress but the capitalists wanted to know where to put the meter and he was a genius among bean counters.
I would expect beamforming to be used rather than needlessly wasteful omnidirectional.
The downside is induced electric current in everything conductive within the transmission area.
From what I understand, if this technology would have been built out during his time then humanity most likely wouldn’t have developed our semi-processor/radio/computer/telephone technology because the wireless transmission of electricity would have prevented the earliest versions of that tech to work and we wouldn’t have been able to follow that line of technology progression.
Dude, no way!
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That’s awesome! Glad to help out.
Like that other guy said, as far as my memory goes as to the reality, and mathematical theory, the method is vastly more inefficient in just transmitting power. Material science is generally a better area of research given everything.
Oh and the whole this method of transmission of power is entirely incompatible with our modern world thing plays a part why its not much considered anymore. As far as I know of course.
We’ve had wireless phone chargers for a long time.
He explained it all to his wife before his death, but she refused to share the key points with other scientists.
Well, we do. It is called “radio”. There have been interesting cases of weird things happening in homes of people living close to strong radio transmitters.
After one person actually built a device to harvest this energy on a serious level, this was even made illegal here…
Here’s a demo of the tech from a while back:
https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_giler_a_demo_of_wireless_electricity
