Tesla speculated electricity from thin air was possible – now the question is whether it will be possible to harness it on the scale needed to power our homes

Tesla speculated electricity from thin air was possible – now the question is whether it will be possible to harness it on the scale needed to power our homes

Feel like there is still room for error, so this needs to be investigated further. Would be a great substitution.

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I hope one day we will be able to charge devices without plugging them in - even if the amount of charge is small, it might be able to trickle charge all the time.

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check out energous.com stock ticker WATT

Sorry to hear the scientist commited sudoku tomorrow with 2 gunshots to the back of his head. /s

I’m going to assume you got auto corrected from seppuku to sudoku. Because that is hilarious.

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Singaporean: Take my money!

I imagine this having practical usage in maybe keeping things like sensors working in a plumbing or caving kinda context considering the low power currently created. Awesome!

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Waiting for that Thunderf00t video on this.

So if this gets scaled up for global use won’t it cause issues by drying out the air?

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