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We coulda had an entirely wireless energy grid back in Tesla's day if it wasn't for capitalists who didn't see a way to profit from it.
it also would have very publically been a huge failure. Tesla tended to ignore the science when he didn't like it. It could not have possibly worked
Pretty sure I saw a movie where ol' Nick Tesla cloned Wolverine a bunch of times to fight Batman. If he was able to make clones back in the day I'm sure he could figure out a power grid issue.
That wasn't the real Tesla, though. It was actually the Goblin King.
Damnit! We've been fooled again by the Goblin King and his tight pants!
+ Wireless
- limited range
- horribly inefficient, increasing with distance
So, there.
tesla's idea was global wireless power. no idea what his efficiency numbers were though.
I mean you absolutely can communicate from Australia to USA with nothing but an old rusty bed frame and 5 watts of power. So there's that. But not much more to do with that bit of non-ionising power.
Are you somehow under the impression that just because it is "global" there are no transmitters and receivers and distance does not matter?
no. i don't pretend to even begin to understand how the prototype at wardenclyffe was supposed to work. i do remember that it supposedly used the atmosphere as a transmission line, but whether that meant bouncing the signal off of it (meaning it was radio based) or somehow charging it (meaning it was static based) i couldn't tell you.
We, today, understand how to power something wirelessly. The problem is it's horribly inefficient.