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Leonid and Sergey Plekhanov, graduates of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, claim they have spent years scrutinizing the Nikola Tesla's patents and diaries and they believe that with his most ambitious project - transcontinental wireless energy transmissions - Tesla came very close to unprecedented scientific discovery that could be brought to fruition.
The enthusiasts say they need about $800,000 to reconstruct the famous Wardenclyffe Tower once created by Tesla himself to implement his ideas and find a commercial application for his ideas on long-distance wireless energy transmission.
The Plekhanov brothers are raising money through IndieGogo croudfunding.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Sunday July 06 2014, @11:25PM
Yup, other than frying birds in flight, and wasting a lot of power upon hill and dale, I can't imagine a single reason to pursue this.
Even in focused bower beaming schemes people are looking at a 60% transmission loss.
Just put the money into better transmission lines, (about 6.6% loss in the US grid), or convert the grid to high voltage DC, and cut the losses even even further. As of 1980, the longest cost-effective distance for direct-current transmission was determined to be 7,000 km (4,300 mi). For alternating current it was 4,000 km (2,500 mi), though all transmission lines in use today are substantially shorter than this.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.