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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lime@feddit.nu 1 day agotesla’s idea was global wireless power. no idea what his efficiency numbers were though.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 day 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 1 day 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.