Tesla Proven Right as Technology is Transmitted Wirelessly

21 Responses to “Tesla Proven Right as Technology is Transmitted Wirelessly”

1. joe Posted: Jan 12th, 2009 at 4:37 pm

   A light bulb was lit in a Laurel and Hardy Movie made about 1936. As a child my Father demonstrated the method using a Diathermy. Separate the pads and hold the bulb between them. More power for greater distance, such as one pad in the ceiling and another under a wooden table top. Flip the switch Radio Waves-Heat, hold bulb in hand or mouth, easy….Don’t over do it. A Diathermy is a Medical Instrument used for deep heating the body, and requires a Prescription. Reply | Quote selected text | Link to this

2. Nosferatu5 Posted: Jan 15th, 2009 at 12:30 am

   well of course Tesla was right. He was [i]NIKOLA FUCKING TESLA[/i]. Reply | Quote selected text | Link to this

3. Jon Posted: Jan 16th, 2009 at 1:12 pm

   I remember lighting a fluorescent bulb with a Tesla coil in Physics2 in college. The problem was never in the transfer, it was in making sure nobody was hurt and that the fields were correctly perpendicular. Just some engineering food for thought. And “WiTricity” sounds terrible. Reply | Quote selected text | Link to this

4. JTK Posted: Jan 16th, 2009 at 10:28 pm

   The problem with this concept is energy loss. A great deal of energy is used to create a magnetic field, and only a small portion of that is returned to electric potential in a battery. The net effect is to greatly increase the cost to run a product and in exchange you get.. no cord. Hardly worth the trade, don’t you think? Reply | Quote selected text | Link to this

5. Jeremy Posted: Jan 17th, 2009 at 12:04 am

   This will be broadened into space travel. Becuase it doesn;t seem feasible on the ground in todays world. Sending WiTricity through the air all over the place? Something about that sounds dangerous. But, we can launch some satellites out their with big solar panels. Boom, charging stations for any vehicles we want to launch where ever. Much better then carrying all sorts of liquid fuel for launch, travel, and return. Possibly setup a wider and wider infrastructure in space to aid further and further exploration. Something like that…. Also yes, this isn’t a new technology at all. Tesla was right all along, and everybody already knew that. There’s also already a device that charges your portable gadgets just by laying them on the “charging pad”. So I’m asking, why are these chumps in Mass. wasting their time? Learn something ya bastards! Reply | Quote selected text | Link to this

6. JTK Posted: Jan 17th, 2009 at 1:00 am

   They know more than most, Jeremy. When you double the distance between emitter and receiver you get 1/4 of the energy. That means this is useless over any long distance and even at short ranges it has huge energy loss. This may have application, but hardly anything world changing. Reply | Quote selected text | Link to this

7. Silicon.shaman Posted: Jan 17th, 2009 at 1:13 pm

   And yet, Tesla was able to transmit sufficient power from a 100 kilowatt generator at Spring Falls, to light 200, 150watt light bulbs, from a distance of 26 miles. However he did it, it clearly didn’t obey the inverse square law. Reply | Quote selected text | Link to this

8. J Posted: Jan 18th, 2009 at 12:05 am

   Silicon.shaman, To put 3kW over 26 miles doesn’t mean the 100kW original field Tesla used disobeyed the inverse square law. It’s still 97% loss. Inverse square law is not 1/(r^2), it’s k/(r^2). If you play around with k (voltage or field shape), it shouldn’t be impossible - just dangerous to stand next to. Oh and yes, the shape of the transformer can make a difference. Reply | Quote selected text | Link to this

9. Pyotr Posted: Jan 18th, 2009 at 10:26 am

   Edison must be rolling in his grave somewhere around now… Reply | Quote selected text | Link to this

10. Justin Bailey Posted: Jan 21st, 2009 at 7:22 pm

    @ Jon When you match Nikola Tesla in the number of patents tendered I will validate your fears. Until then get back to studying. Reply | Quote selected text | Link to this

11. filip Posted: Jan 22nd, 2009 at 12:25 am

    Can anybody do Nikola’s experiment 26 miles away with 200 bulbs I think not. Reply | Quote selected text | Link to this

12. Ed Posted: Jan 22nd, 2009 at 1:35 am

    It’s sad, when Tesla did this back then, they just thought of him as a clever magician… Unfortunately this could have come in handy in today’s world. Reply | Quote selected text | Link to this

13. mkg Posted: Apr 20th, 2009 at 1:25 pm

    Fuck edison. Fucking thug. Fuck westinghouse. Tesla set up an entire house that drew energy from the earth and the atmosphere…showed it to westinghouse, who said,”How do we charge them for this electricity?” Tesla replied,”CHARGE them? This should be free…for everyone!” Westinghouse,”You’re fired.” Reply | Quote selected text | Link to this

14. bnt Posted: May 8th, 2009 at 1:06 am

    What’s new about induction heating? It’s what boils pots on your glass-top cooking range. Frankly, I don’t believe ANYBODY lit 200 lightbulbs wirelessly from 26 miles range in 1899. Apart from urban myths, can anyone point me to an authenticated record of that electromagnetic pulse event? Reply | Quote selected text | Link to this

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16. AC DC Posted: Jun 9th, 2009 at 4:21 pm

    With the amount of power lines strewn about our modern world, you can guarantee that Teslas’ secret to absorbing waste energy has been buried very deep by the government and the energy businesses. Free power for life to whoever can figure it out. I am sure Tesla could have used a focused energy stream at the point of origin and a satellite-type receiver at the destination, just like modern wi-fi or satellites work. Most satellites transmit waves over 26,200 Miles. Makes only 26 Miles look kinda sad, but for back then it would have been amazing. Reply | Quote selected text | Link to this

17. FOT Posted: Jun 10th, 2009 at 6:04 am

    the earth is a magnet, the sun is a magnet, fields, field strengths and field orientations, polarizations, are known, measurable, calculable, e.g. magvar, a simple compass needle. Tesla understood orientation and magnetism, and their compatibilities and correspondences within electromagnetism. he “thoughtfully” independently (opinion)invented superconductor theory, and understood dielectric potentials between “gaps” in the “aether”. capacitor charge and discharge rates, - and + electron flow, wireless power transfers via earth to sky to earth (lighting)mediums. tesla believed in the aether — because he could calculate the effects, but could not observe/measure them. so the effects were nameless… aether. our science is meant to explore how to improve the efficiency of the machines we build that “WORK” for US. tesla science, while known, will be used to fuel the minds and machines that work for everyone. Reply | Quote selected text | Link to this

18. xeno911 Posted: Jun 10th, 2009 at 5:07 pm

    Good comment, FOT. There’s something of an awakening taking in place in cosmology right now which gives great hope of hoiking us all out of the realms of pure math back into the practical arena of physics. Tesla, sure but also Birkland, Alfven and, er possibly Hutchison [;-) http://www.holoscience.com/synopsis.php We are elctromagnetic entities in a universal electromagnetic spectrum Reply | Quote selected text | Link to this

19. Anonymous Posted: Jun 20th, 2009 at 6:09 am

    Quote: The problem with this concept is energy loss. A great deal of energy is used to create a magnetic field, and only a small portion of that is returned to electric potential in a battery. The net effect is to greatly increase the cost to run a product and in exchange you get.. no cord. Hardly worth the trade, don’t you think? Depends: how much energy do you think Tesla used in his experiment? At a distance of 26 miles the falloff would have been IMMENSE, so looking at just producing WiTricity in a local area…if someone could figure out what Tesla did, that is. Reply | Quote selected text | Link to this

20. yourmother Posted: Dec 11th, 2009 at 8:05 am

    I love that Nikola Tesla did this in the 1800s with 200 lightbulbs, 27 miles away, and we can light one bulb from 7 feet away and it’s a huge breakthrough. Why didn’t he just write it down?! Reply | Quote selected text | Link to this

21. pooponastick Posted: Dec 13th, 2009 at 12:10 am

    its all a transfer of energy and waves. MIT needs to think outside the box like the guy that made an aluminum foil “plane” that rides on ionic updrafts (or whatever, he only has theories of why it works.) he built this in his garage, without a team of MIT majors. and it was all based on teslas idea of an infrastructure of electronic lines that could be used to power and supply lift for vehicle used in public transportation. Now, build a deathray, i want 2. Reply | Quote selected text | Link to this