Wireless electricity

[dighn]

Tesla was definitely ahead of his time. A bit of a crackpot at times but undeniably a genius and visionary. Kind amusing how popular he seems to be among geeks.

[Lost User]

Someone trots this out every few years to live off the venture capital.

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[NetDave]

And the story is always the same, "It works just like two coils in a transformer." But they never give the details about how they've "made it practical", because "ooooh, that's our trade secret" Yeah, right...

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[Rob Graham]

Would you like to stand between the source coil and the receiver?

[Rocky Moore]

As long as it does not end up like the Opti-Grab :)

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[Roger Wright]

That's not wireless electricity; this[^] is wireless electricity!

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[martin_hughes]

Nice vid - is that your latest substation project shortly after commissioning? :)

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[Mark_Wallace]

i.j.russell wrote:

Who on earth thinks up this stuff?

Faraday, actually.

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[BillWoodruff]

i.j.russell wrote:

Who on earth thinks up this stuff?

Hi I.J., Nikolai Tesla, for one. best, Bill

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[Mustafa Ismail Mustafa]

I saw something along parallel lines the other day on Discovery Science, using Microwaves as a potential medium to transfer power for miles.

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[smcnulty2000]

As I recall the whole problem was that it took quite a bit more power to do broadcast power than running it over wires. Broadcast energy was a cool plot element in the book Gallagher's Glacier. Old sci fi book. [^] I think the theory was that you'd have towers at intervals and you'd never have to 'charge' your car you'd just drive it around and it would suck power out of the air. Same deal with your toaster or TV, you'd just turn the device on and it had no batteries or power plug of any kind. Just a receiver.

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[Brady Kelly]

The RIAA :laugh:

[Chris Quinn]

Nicolai Tesla in the 1910's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower[^]

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