8 Responses

1. Simply because it work not work in mass usage that is required.

2. Not practical.

3. Because the receiver had not been invented yet. You need to harness, direct and control the electricity for it to do you any good. If there was any merit to this invention there would have been investors, so the crock about JP Morgan stopping it is just that. A Crock.

4. Because it was marketable?

   That’s like asking why people don’t give out free WiFi.

5. The video states that J.P. Morgan stopped financing Tesla because he realized there was no way to charge people for the electricity. As with a lot of things money got in the way.

   Something else interesting about Tesla was his involvement with Einstein in the Philadelphia experiment.

6. Here’s a modern reproduction of the tower, with working coils. I would NOT want to be anywhere near that thing while it was operating.

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY-AS13fl30&feature=related

   I would imagine JP Morgan withdrew funding after he saw a live demonstration of the tower in operation. It was so terrifying that he did not want any part of it. Also, he probably found out how little power was being picked up at the receiving end.

   “Free” does not mean no cost. It simply means free of wires – redundant with “wireless.”

   There is nothing magical or mysterious. It is simply a high power antenna operating at low frequency. It propagates electromagnetic waves that transmit power over distance. Any sharp physics student can calculate the power transmitted in an electromagnetic wave.

   I’ve seen demonstrations where all it takes is an ordinary rabbit ears antenna to pick up enough energy to light a small incandescent light bulb, like a night light.

   It can transmit only very limited amounts of power without frying all forms of life in the vicinity. And it can transmit over limited distances.

   Customer billing would be a problem – too easy to pick up the energy and cheat the meter.

   Long distance power transmission by wires and transformers turned out to be much more practical and efficient, plus it’s easier to meter, and people are much less willing to bypass the meter (ZAP!).

   This is an example of an idea that looked good on paper, and it worked in small scale laboratory experiments, but it went wrong when it was scaled up to full size.

7. Today there are people that can transmit electricity through the air.

   The problem is that this format is inherently inefficient, wasting most of what is transmitted. Beyond that our current appliances and computers require a constant and even flow of electricity, which cannot be done yet through the air.

   Then you get into the safety for human kind having all of this ambient electrical energy floating through the air.

   As far as harnessing the ionosphere, I’m not sure about the feasibility of that either. Just because Tesla achieved it small scale does not mean it would have worked on the large scale.

   Sure it is hard to get tons of cash for something that will not make any money . . . not only that, but it will reduce the ability for those giving you the cash to make the money they already do.

   Say you are a teacher and I ask you for your life savings for my invention that infuses all the information directly into childrens’ brains – putting you out of work and making your education, training, and profession obsolete . . . would you do it? This would be offered for free once it is up and running, so your contribution would be lost . . . would you give away your life savings for this?

   It would be for the betterment of humankind, what are you greedy?

8. “Free” violates every tenet of the capitalist bible.