• taladar@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Are you somehow under the impression that just because it is “global” there are no transmitters and receivers and distance does not matter?

    • lime!@feddit.nu
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      2 days ago

      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.