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I have doubts about this because wireless induction is extremely inefficient due to the inverse square law, and pumping out enough power to make it useful at a distance would electrify almost everything conductive.
No doubt it would have done that as well; I’m not saying he figured it out, that it would have worked or would have been efficient.
I have had this come up a few times over the years and it usually results in the other party inferring “but Tesla had it working in his lab” or “Edison killed the tech” type of response even after stating what you did.
They usually don’t get it until you explain that radio would have not been possible with that much ambient electricity in the air. That all the technology in your cell phone would not have been possible if radio tech was DOA because everything conductive, including rudimentary electronics, would be fried instantly in such a world. It wouldn’t be good for humans either in a world like that.
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Tesla was a genius, not a magician.