Somebody who did some really cool stuff and made a lot of people very nervous. But then I wanted my own company to do really cool stuff. But I kept running into the infamous valley of death. I am on my third company and trying to reach the other side.
A quick stab: wireless power transmission, no problem. But omnidirectional and range are a real limitation. Of course back then, you just needed to power lights, etc. No big power draw. There was an easier and cheaper way to do long range comm. Earth is a ground, not a conductor.
Just shooting from the hip, since I don’t have the design.
Having brought this thread back to life I just saw this question of yours regarding Wardenclyffe. (Such a funny old English spelling.) Not an electrical engineer as disclaimer. But my reaction has always been the same as Revodude's. Omnidirectional transmission is highly inefficient because of the geometry-enforced 1 over r squared law. Plus, consider how much receptive area is just wasted because the receivers are small, few, and scattered. A 100 kiloWatt radio transmitter tower for example works because the faint EM signal can be detected with an antenna and amplified. The radio receiving and amplifying the signal is not powered by the EM wave itself, but by batteries. Back in the day, a long line of D sized batteries. Similar situation for GPS satellite signals.
Tesla was an intuitive genius. Strong visual thinker. As far as I am aware though he developed no mathematics. Eventually the lack of mathematics limits you. In a similar vein Faraday knew no mathematics. Maxwell was a once-in-century mathematical physicist. Tesla was a once-in-a-century hands-on inventor -- with a big daring for grand designs and a large heart for the well being of human kind.
Somebody who did some really cool stuff and made a lot of people very nervous. But then I wanted my own company to do really cool stuff. But I kept running into the infamous valley of death. I am on my third company and trying to reach the other side.
Well good luck to you :). Any thoughts on Wardenclyffe?
A quick stab: wireless power transmission, no problem. But omnidirectional and range are a real limitation. Of course back then, you just needed to power lights, etc. No big power draw. There was an easier and cheaper way to do long range comm. Earth is a ground, not a conductor.
Just shooting from the hip, since I don’t have the design.
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Having brought this thread back to life I just saw this question of yours regarding Wardenclyffe. (Such a funny old English spelling.) Not an electrical engineer as disclaimer. But my reaction has always been the same as Revodude's. Omnidirectional transmission is highly inefficient because of the geometry-enforced 1 over r squared law. Plus, consider how much receptive area is just wasted because the receivers are small, few, and scattered. A 100 kiloWatt radio transmitter tower for example works because the faint EM signal can be detected with an antenna and amplified. The radio receiving and amplifying the signal is not powered by the EM wave itself, but by batteries. Back in the day, a long line of D sized batteries. Similar situation for GPS satellite signals.
Tesla was an intuitive genius. Strong visual thinker. As far as I am aware though he developed no mathematics. Eventually the lack of mathematics limits you. In a similar vein Faraday knew no mathematics. Maxwell was a once-in-century mathematical physicist. Tesla was a once-in-a-century hands-on inventor -- with a big daring for grand designs and a large heart for the well being of human kind.