2007-06-08 17:22:47 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Tesla already did it...
2007-06-08 17:40:53 · answer #1 · answered by Holden 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Although the MIT team has not built and tested a system utilizing this new approach that they have developed, computer models and mathematics suggest it will work.
You can learn more about these new developments and the theory behind the research at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6129460.stm
The idea itself is far from new. Nineteenth-century physicist and engineer Nikola Tesla experimented with long-range wireless energy transfer, but his most ambitious attempt - the 29m high aerial known as Wardenclyffe Tower, in New York - failed when he ran out of money.
Good luck!
2007-06-09 00:44:54 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The unique features are non-radiative magnetic fields (not electromagnetic waves), and resonance. Anyone have any references to the claim that Tesla did it? His US patent 390721 involved transmission of electromagnetic fields via a medium.
The MIT team HAS demonstrated it experimentally.
2007-06-09 01:03:38 · answer #3 · answered by Frank N 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tesla did this before MIT.
2007-06-09 00:42:31 · answer #4 · answered by Robert T 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋