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When will they invent wireless electricity?
Seems like everythign is going wireless these days. Yet all of it has to be plugged in to a wall to charge for a valuable amount of time or it runs on desposable batteries. Will there ever come a time or be a way to get a constant flow of electricity wirelessly?
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Technically, wireless was invented by Nicola Tesla in the late 1800's; Westinghouse bankrolled his invention, but thomas Edison took all of the publicity with his wired invention, so funding was withdrawn and he lost the patent. My time-line may be off a bit. The invention was called the Tesla Coil....
- 6 years ago
Although wireless electricity has already been shown way way way back in the day by N. Tesla. Currently we don't use it and no-one has really explored its concept since. we do have many forms of wireless energy though, in the form of signal. We broadcast signal. I am sure you can transfer signal to energy as signal is a form of energy and we all know that energy can be transformed to many different forms of energy. A microwave for example is a form of wireless signal energy. You introduce microwaves to matter, the molecules get excited and start moving around like a fleet of 8 year old kids after eating 14 candy bars. They in turn give off heat and your matter is hot. This is a form of wireless energy. THe matter being bombarded with the microwaves is responding to the waveform of the microwave. i.e microWAVE is a signal wave - so is FM, AM, upper sideband, lower, UHF, VHF, Bluetooth, WIFI... anyways... If you dont believe me, unplug the antenna from a CB radio and stick your finger in the hole, then key up the mic and start talking. (WARNING- YOU WILL GET BURNED IF YOU TRY THIS) (OR KILLED IF THE XMITTER IS BIG ENOUGH) Then look at the hole in your finger and tell me that was not electricity! The burn it causes is from your cells reacting to being moved at what ever the current frequency of the signal is- I would guess up around the megahertz range. If you have ever been shocked by AC (household electricity) you may remember the "buzzy" feeling kind of like a mass vibration? This is because of the signal frequency of the electricity - Push Pull - is AC current. It goes back and forth. If you saw the signal on a scope you would see this: draw a line across the center, the signal will go from the middle line to the top dropping to the middle and continuing to the bottom then returning to the middle . That is 1 cycle . Our electricity in the united states runs @ 60 cycles per second or 60 hz. the feeling you are getting in your arm when you get shocked in the house is your muscles and tissue reacting, constricting, contracting, 120 times per second! Higher frequency electricity is dangerous and will cause burns as your "meat" wil react at what ever rate the signal is... just like a microwave! One way to xfer wifi electricity would be with microwaves but, we would have to figure out an efficient way to convert or transform the energy at the other end.. One possible but inefficient way to do this- and this is an impractical example: blast microwaves in a pinpoint signal from afar to a volume of water, the water heats up creating steam, turns the turbine - generates electricity. Oh and there is also the problem with people going through your signal. " is it getting hot in here?" I guess it depends what you are willing to accept as "wireless electricity" but we already have solar cells. That is wireless electricity in a manner of speaking. I mean... the energy comes from solar and is converted into electricity through photo cell tech. But I would guess true wireless electricity would be electricity that is created at the powerplant and broadcasted out - the appliance then just picks it up out of the air and.... thats a rap? a long ways out my friends.
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- 1 decade ago
Converting energy to electricity (like making an exercise bike converting your pedalling into electricity)
If things had a solar power generator or something.
I don't know, I'm no scientist but it seems possible but it isn't going to make anyone money so why bother.
- kikioLv 61 decade ago
Wow, that's a great question. Definitely deserves a star, altho I can say in all honesty that with our government, I'm sure there will never be funding for something as "frivolous" as that. After all, they are too busy funding how to grow potatos without eyes.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
I heard soon like underground electric wires
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Well, we are speaking of electricity. So as long as rain doesn't become a factor, then maybe.
- That girl...Lv 61 decade ago
Whenever they can find how it can work. I have many wireless items. =]Theres a chance maybe theyre inventin some right now. =]
- George GLv 51 decade ago
a star ? ... when they convert radio waves into electric istead of the other way around
- Anonymous1 decade ago
WOW.. what a question....
like WOW....
a Star for u..
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Haha! That would be so awesome.