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[-] Squids@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

reason we didn't have wireless charging a hundred years ago

I'm confused what's this about? Please don't tell this is about Tesla's dumb as shit "wireless energy" plan because you know that like, just doesn't work right?

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

[-] Squids@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

In addition to inventing and building multiple electrical machines that worked (dynamos engines, etc), Tesla repeatedly demonstrated the effective wireless transfer of energy.

There was no "failure" of the wardenclyffe Tower, monopolists who wanted to charge money for free electricity tore it down.

Transceivers in common use today work in the same way that Tesla described, and you know how induction works as well, so your problem here is that regardless of his inventions working, Tesla also believed in a broad prevailing scientific notion unrelated to his electrical work that was later proved too vaguely conceptualized to be relevant.

His inventions worked. And as you say, Tesla's 'bullshit crazy plan"(that works) is simple induction.

You sound very upset and are acting as though you are in an argument, but you are also agreeing with everything I'm saying and everything Tesla accomplished.

Do you just like Edison/dislike tesla, or what is making you so upset?

[-] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Tesla was an idiot

You sure about that?

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