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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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We, today, understand how to power something wirelessly. The problem is it’s horribly inefficient.
No, they saw a way of profiting from it not happening…