Comment on True Wireless Power is FINALLY here (building a TRULY wire-free desk setup)

• lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  tesla’s idea was global wireless power. no idea what his efficiency numbers were though.

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  • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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