Would it be great to get rid of all the electricity wires and cables on the street?

Question

Why do not we design a box that could transfer electrical power from one box to another via somekind of tranferring mode. I think we have too many wires, cables and poles on the street.

Answer 1

for the reasons above mentioned... an just to add, we still have no scientific studies on the effects of magnetic waves in the human body. If you ask me, Adam and Even didn't die of cancer... ok stupid example. But my point is tha in the past people's biggest diseases were tuberculosis and the like, we must be doing something to the environment to get diseases like this. Until proper research is made I wouldn't be confortable at all switching to microwave power sources. If it's gonna be wireless it's gotta affect the environment somehow cuz it will be send through the enevironment. Wires at least we know they're there and we know to stay away from them and other cautions to take.

Answer 2

A direct answer to your question is: Yes, this would be great.
But almost all energy transfers (radio signals are energy too), except for powersupply, can be done wireless already. Nikola Tesla has been working on your problem about a century ago, and he said he had solved it. But investors were not interested because it was not possible to measure how much energy people would be using as the energy would be there in the air for everybody. Therefore he couldn't devolop his invention. But unfortunately nobody knows if it would have worked for real.

Answer 3

To get them off the street, we bury them. You can't transfer that much energy through nothing. There would be lightening flashing between your 'boxes'. There are certain properties (frequency, current, voltage) that could no longer be controlled if you went wireless.
The only way this is possible would to direct high powered lasers between your boxes, transferring the energy by light. Again though, our demand for power is too great to consider this.

Answer 4

It's funny you mention that. Go to your local city, see any telephone poles?? All the wires are underground.
Using microwaves to transfer energy would desipate too much energy. AC waves through wire is perfect and most economical, energy efficient way possible at this time.

Answer 5

yeah just run gas lines to our house so we dont have to go to the gas station. every day we can step outside to pump our gas which has a price guage on it and determine if we should stay home and watch tv using the electrical power from the lines.
if you put the lines underground, how will you tell if a fault occurs, and how will you be able to fix it, or splice the wires?

Answer 6

well obviously you've never had to repair any of those lines on the street or in someone's back yard, new construction typically goes underground if it is cost effective but on the street is by far much simpler to build and maintain than those lines in the backlot easements

Answer 7

Good idea!
Ask Exxon for a grant and a sabbatical to start working on it.

Answer 8

Microwave technology is heading in that direction.

Answer 9

hmmm.......why?
i don't.