Wireless electricity, is it possible?
Electricity can be an expensive commodity at times. Well imagine this flipping a switch in your house and getting electricity through the air, exactly like radio waves. Instead of having your house attached to wires simply having an antenna on your roof . It is possible through the use of tesla coils and resonant technology. Nikola tesla was obsessed with the idea of wireless transmission of electrical energy. It is said he once used his massive tesla coil in colorado springs to transmit electricity over 20 miles through the air.
Well this may seem like a far fetched impossible idea it is in fact possible to send useable electricity through the air. I did some tests with a small tesla coil i builtand found i could transmit power up to two feet, mind you this was a very very small coil about 6 inches tall. I had a recieving coil with a christmas light at the end, it lit up brightly when the coil was turned on this shocked me. I trully did not expect it to work.
This is however merly a novelty, it would take an incredible amount of electricity just to send it, it would cost way too much to run, also the idea of sending electricity through thin air could cause unforseen negative health effects. So it is merely a novelty but it is a very interesting idea to know that electricty can be wirelessly transmitted. There is some modern work going on with coils and such today with limeted results but it is promising. Perhaps one day there will be no more plugs merely switches, only time shall tell.
