At the time Tesla was floating his theory the average house used about 40 amps, mostly lighting. Today you would need coils that fill the basement with wires. It would be like living above a microwave.
lol exactly!
"....the average house used about 40 amps"
Actually, in the end Tesla was right, sort of.
Thomas Edison advocated electrical distribution as Direct Current, Tesla, using essentially low-frequency radio waves which are, of course, Alternating Current.
Edison's approach would have required local electrical generating stations because the transmission losses at usable and safe voltages would have been way too great.
In the end, the transformer and alternating current solved the problem - allowing power to be efficiently transmitted from large power plants.
Edison may be partially vindicated.....DC is used on some transmission lines now that relatively recent developments in DC/AC power conversion have made it a compelling alternative in some cases.....