June 6th, 2012 
Hojo Motor Nikola Tesla was the father of alternating current (AC), which is the most common form of electricity today. Thomas Edison favored direct current (DC), the type of electricity in batteries.
However at the beginning of the 20th century, Tesla invented and had perfected a method of transmitting electricty via the atmosphere, known as the Tesla coil. This method of distribution, would have allowed our homes, buildings, and vehicles to run without the use of fossil fuels or wires. Simply put, free energy for everyone.
Edison favored a land-line wire method of distribution and ultimately won, because there was money to be made. The people with the money obviously weren’t in the business to fund a completely free method of power distribution. Ultimately, we ended up with a monthly electric bill.
Where do you think humantiy would be today, if we had adopted this free, unteathered method of power distribution?
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Ultimately Telsa *did* win the war of the currents. And in his memiors, Edison said the biggest mistake he ever made was pushing DC current instead of AC.
Being able to “transmit energy” is not the same as “free energy”. You still have to generate the energy somehow, so it isn’t free. Someone has to pay for it.
We do have the technology to wirelessly transmit energy, but it is limited in practicality. For example, it is very possible to transmit high power energy through the use of narrow microwave beams, but if the energy is too high, the beam will fry anything in it’s path. In Tesla’s day, there wasn’t much in the sky to fry, but these days a beam of deadly radiation is just too dangerous. Even Tesla recommended that wireless energy transfers should be limited to airships, like balloons and blimps. He did not see a practical use for land vehicles at all.
Only low-power applications are really viable for any kind of wireless energy transfers. For example, wirelessly transferring energy via laser beam is a much more viable method. I even have a remote controlled helicopter that is powered and controlled by the light from a laser beam.
I think a better question would be where would we be if we embraced Tesla’s ideas about wireless communication over Marconi’s. The US government postumously attribute the invention of the radio to Tesla instead of Marconi. In fact, in order to make the radio work over long distances, Marconi had to adapt no less than 17 inventions patented by Tesla. But they are still teaching that Marconi invented radio, even in American schools!
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I cant say i would know were we would be because obviously were not there, but im sure things would be different than they are now. We would probably know more, know more about things that we font know now. But then i cant say maybe it would of been the down fall of everything back then.
While it sounds ideal, the first thought that comes to mind upon expanding out the consequences, is that it would cause human beings to flourish unchecked to the point of their own destruction.
Firstly, LOL.
1.) Tesla did not “perfect” any method
2.) Free energy is a myth since as of right now, there is no way to make enough energy without expending money first (Solar Energy requires expensive Solar panels / Fossil fuels are used to heat water)
3.) Transmission via atmosphere is a much more taxing task since AIR’s conductivity is low which would mean more transmission loss through this method
4.) Electrical transmission through atmosphere would result in the non-existence of aeronautics / mobile communications / television / etc.
5.) And a lot more reasons.
I would have to say that the human race would be a much more savage place than it is now.
wireless power transmission has many problems associated with it. I don’t know that tesla coils are useful for it at all in a practical sense. It is possible however, by the implementation of what are essentially long range transformers, this doesn’t really present a better scenario than what we have today however, as you’d probably need just as many ‘power poles’ and on top of that we’d all be pretty exposed to high power electrical fields (its also not free by a long shot, free energy doesn’t exist – at the very least you need something to harness it with which costs money). As a general rule: what works the best and what is the cheapest for the consumer – succeeds. Think about it, if what you said was true then surely another power company would’ve come out saying, hey, we can offer you dirt cheap electricity!.. What would’ve happened? Market shift.. Simple capitalism.
Tesla never perfected a method for wireless electricity other than over short distances using a Tesla coil to power gas discharge lamps by the electric field in between two large metal plates. This was a “room size” system, and has practical issues that make it of little use nowadays. His claim to transmit large amounts of power globally has never been demonstrated, and we do not have any such technology.
I doubt Tesla favoured wires any less than Edison. Tesla seems to have succeeded in transmitting significant power in some way at Colorado Springs, but there is little information on how. I read his own book about this and came away non-the-wiser. It seemed to be about transmitting power through the ground, perhaps relying on different layers, and perhaps using resonance or ionisation of air (upper atmosphere), which happened to be down a valley. It is likely he misinterpreted the results of this local success as a possible global system. He certainly had insights that later have been shown as reasonable. He was prevented from completing the Wardencliffe system when his financial resources dwindled. The wikipedia article seems about right, from what I have read eleswhere, but as everyone is talking about more or less unknown stuff it tends to devolve into legends.
The system of AC distribution and poly-phase we use now is almost completely according to Tesla’s ideas. Yes there was a difference of opinion between Tesla and Edison about AC and DC. Edison was trying to promote his own system, inferior or not..
Ultimately Telsa *did* win the war of the currents. And in his memiors, Edison said the biggest mistake he ever made was pushing DC current instead of AC.
Being able to “transmit energy” is not the same as “free energy”. You still have to generate the energy somehow, so it isn’t free. Someone has to pay for it.
We do have the technology to wirelessly transmit energy, but it is limited in practicality. For example, it is very possible to transmit high power energy through the use of narrow microwave beams, but if the energy is too high, the beam will fry anything in it’s path. In Tesla’s day, there wasn’t much in the sky to fry, but these days a beam of deadly radiation is just too dangerous. Even Tesla recommended that wireless energy transfers should be limited to airships, like balloons and blimps. He did not see a practical use for land vehicles at all.
Only low-power applications are really viable for any kind of wireless energy transfers. For example, wirelessly transferring energy via laser beam is a much more viable method. I even have a remote controlled helicopter that is powered and controlled by the light from a laser beam.
I think a better question would be where would we be if we embraced Tesla’s ideas about wireless communication over Marconi’s. The US government postumously attribute the invention of the radio to Tesla instead of Marconi. In fact, in order to make the radio work over long distances, Marconi had to adapt no less than 17 inventions patented by Tesla. But they are still teaching that Marconi invented radio, even in American schools!