Posted on 09/05/2025 8:06:38 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
What if we told you that DARPA, the U.S. government agency, has developed a way to send electricity through great distances… with no batteries or cables involved in the process? That’s right, like out of a cartoon (it actually looks like a Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz’s idea), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has been able to transmit energy using focused light beams. Of course, they have decided to call their project POWER —great copywriting, even better science.
But, how does the DARPA’s POWER project work? This scientific experiment turns electricity into a tightly focused beam of light, sends that beam across open air, and then turns the light back into electricity at the far end.
Much like Wi-Fi for power, it has a transmitter feeds a laser, the beam is steered and kept on target by tracking hardware, and a receiver (essentially a compact opening plus a mirror that redirects light onto rugged solar cells) converts photons into usable current. The appeal is mobility. If you can move energy as light, you can bypass roads, spools, ...
What DARPA actually did in New Mexico In a series of tests at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range, the POWER team delivered more than 800 watts across 8.6 kilometers for 30 seconds, then repeated shorter runs over several days that added up to more than a megajoule transferred.
The centerpiece was a new receiver that lets a near-infrared beam enter through a small aperture, strike a parabolic mirror, and reflect onto an array of commercial photovoltaic cells. At shorter ranges, the setup measured a little over 20% conversion from laser optical output back to usable output; the goal of this demo was speed and ruggedness, not peak efficiency.
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Can we forgo the copper cables now then?
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“Yeah - but he never documented how he did it and the knowledge died with him.”
The feds broke into where he was living in NYC, stole and classified everything.
His goal was unilimited free power transmitted wirelessly.
That tends to piss off the power generation and distribution companies.
Who knows how sucessful he actually was. But I’d be extremely surprised if a lot of Tesla’s ideas are not involved here.
Idiots who work on that and idiots who write about this crap.
if they could only figure out how Tesla did it without using lasers and fixed receiver stations.
Tesla was doing that in the 30s.
Tesla’s stolen files
Or frying birds, or humans who wander into the path of the beam..
I think this is similar to an idea floated in the energy “starved” 80’s .
Big solar arrays in space...transmitting electrical power by microwave to the earth based receiving stations, and being converted to ‘lectricity.
What if the hot water is converted to steam and used to generate electricity? Not exactly efficient, but not wasting the waste heat.
I think we already got lasers strong enough to shoot down drones and maybe more.
“”Darpa has laser weapon projects.””
DARPA is evil. RFK Jr. also accused DARPA of being behind all those chemtrails.
“”Kennedy emphasized that this information is taken very seriously – but that it is not something his own department (the Department of Health and Human Services) is involved in.
Instead, he believes that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is responsible for it all.
– That is not happening in my agency. We don’t do that. It’s done – we think – by DARPA and a lot of it now is coming out of the jet fuel. Those materials are put in jet fuel.””
Good proof of concept though. Passive energy generation like orbital solar arrays beaming this down to earth might be doable one day.
Yup, Tesla’s goal. He may have done it though. Isn’t there a story about all of his papers being taken away to storage upon his death?
Vehicle mounted lasers are here.
Lots of room for improvement.
https://www.ammoland.com/2020/09/vehicle-mounted-laser-guns-are-here-and-will-be-fielded-soon/
Yeah, but did it on hotdogs and beer. Or was that Babe Ruth? Anyway, same thing.
Bkmk
What a lame premise. Copper is a whole lot more than 20% efficient. I am also wonder what happens to living things when the beam passes through them. And any object could block the beam.
It took DARPA all these years to finally figure out what Tesla was talking about. May Westinghouse burn forever.
[...how to keep from getting cut apart by the highly-concentrated beam of light?]
Tinfoil, lots and lots of tinfoil. I’m cashing out my copper futures and investing in Reynolds.
Wifi is implemented over very short distances; radically controlled by my router’s range, but every home could have a, “router” someday for electricity.
Fascinating idea if it were more feasibly achievable. Imagine not having to need surge protectors anymore!
It won’t work! Perry will come along andd push Doof’s “Self-Distructinator, and that will be that.
But Doof can Dream!
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A I told you so moment
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