To: wbarmy
If he had been able to put more of his work down on paper, we would have wireless energy. It wasn't from lack of completion. It was built and used several times.
The losses in such a system are immense.
11 posted on
11/19/2015 9:19:22 AM PST by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: thackney
I do remember reading that Tesla felt he could improve on and fix those problems. It was his backers who felt it was useless, they couldn’t figure out how to charge for the power.
13 posted on
11/19/2015 9:27:08 AM PST by
wbarmy
(I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
To: thackney
Basically, it is a transmit/receive system with the antennas doing the power transfer. Lots of losses.
The EME (Earth-Moon-Earth) bounce has kilowatts pointed at the moon, and tiny, tiny amounts coming back.
Lots of losses.
/johnny
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