• @vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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      163 days ago

      it also would have very publically been a huge failure. Tesla tended to ignore the science when he didn’t like it. It could not have possibly worked

      • lime!
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        43 days ago

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

        • @taladar@sh.itjust.works
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          53 days 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!
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            03 days 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.

        • @MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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          3 days 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. But not much more to do with that bit of non-ionising power.