could Nicola Tesla's wireless energy tower work is it possible?

Question

what about a couple of these towers all over the world to not luis the energy

Answer 1

very possible , it's done with radio & TV signals which is elcticity at a differant frequncey and wattage all u would need is the right reciver but how would the power company control it if it wasnt flowing through their equipment it's all about control and the money.

Answer 2

Possible? Yes I built one for a science project many years ago and it did work.

Practical? No. The power lost as you move away the transmitter is too great.

As an aside you can check out how this works by going to any place with the high towers and power lines. Go at night and bring a fluorescent tube. The field around the high voltage wires will light up the fluorescent tube!

Additional
I think you would looking at Hundreds of thousands of towers to reach everyone on the globe.

Also what is the effect on people being immersed in such a strong electrical field? I for one do not want to find out.

Answer 3

Possibly. No one knows all of what Tesla was up to, nor what happened to some of his notebooks. Modern researchers are developing systems that can deliver low levels of wireless power over short distances - enough to power handheld devices within your house, say. Many people think of broadcasting power or beaming it point-to-point, but these new systems use resonant coupling, so less power is radiated away and wasted.

Given Tesla's fondness for inductive devices and high frequencies, he may have been attempting something similar on a larger scale. It probably could be made to work, but over what distance and with what efficiency?

Answer 4

The problem with this idea is the square power law. Think of the transmitted energy as an ever-expanding sphere. The amount of energy is fixed but the surface of the sphere is expanding so that the energy per square meter of sphere surface is diminishing as the square of the distance from the source.

The amount of usable energy becomes very small very quickly so it's not effective in transmitting power. It works great as a radio however.

Answer 5

I'd have to do some research,
but considering Edison had Tesla blackballed for the idea, I'd say ol' Thomas thought it had some possibilities.
This site has a picture of the tower. I haven't had a chance to read it yet tho'

http://www.tesla.org/
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Answer 6

Almost certainly not. The problem is that most of the broadcast energy gets wasted -- there is no way to direct it toward fluctuating loads. The energy being broadcast nowadays goes not to transmit energy but to transmit information, because little power is needed to collect the information.

Answer 7

Yes it is possible. It has even been demonstrated. The problem is transmitting power over long distances, and storing it once it gets there.

Answer 8

I just don`t know, I have been offered many plans too build but it but I think they may be fraud, like willhelm reich, phd fraud plans! I don`t think power companies would like it. I am more concerned with North Korean plan too hit uws with NEMP!