• Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Huh, this is new. You don’t believe in wireless electricity?

    This is about how Edison bankrupted Tesla and all his financiers because it’s the only way his primitive technology could compete.

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      1 year ago

      Wireless electricty is a thing, as demonstrated by Faraday through his laws of induction, first discovered in 1832, 60 years before Tesla came onto the scene. Wireless electricty as you know it is mainly just fancy induction.

      I’m talking about Tesla’s batshit crazy plan to make wireless electricty by just, sticking electrodes into the ground and/or sky and pumping enough voltage into it so they arced because he thought the earth could be used to conduct electricity. Wardenclyfe tower failed not because of Edison, but because Tesla was an idiot who thought the luminferuous aether was real and electrons were made up.

      Also please, do you know how stupidly inefficient a Tesla coil is? The most common use of resonat inductive coupling is like, RFID chips, not large scale power transfer like Tesla wanted