Wireless power transmission in 1974

Ben Shelef recently sent me the link to this clip.  It’s very cool and is an early harbinger of power beaming technologies we now see being developed in the Space Elevator Games.[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkVlkSnoGNM[/youtube]

This clip has been around for a while – I vaguely remember seeing a portion of it some time back.  But thank you, Ben, for pointing it out to me so that I can put it up on the blog…

2 thoughts on “Wireless power transmission in 1974

  1. Darnell Clayton

    A mile or so is great, but what about 60,000 plus miles?

    Does the energy decrease over distance?

    If so, how are we going to power the SE? Will we have to do it via the CNT (as they are quite conductive)?

    Or should we just build a nuclear powered liftport that will guarantee our shipment makes its location? 😉

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