# A company in Texas is trying to transmit wireless power around the Earth.

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**Created:** [December 3, 2018, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-company-in-texas-is-trying-to-transmit-wireless-power-around-the-earth/825477 "2018-12-03T02:00:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-company-in-texas-is-trying-to-transmit-wireless-power-around-the-earth/825477/16 "2018-12-04T07:07:15Z")

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> [@Cheesesteak](#):
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> Getting useful amounts of broadcast power means that a useful amount of energy has to be available your energy collector every second. If you’re trying to broadcast long distances, you either need to focus it marvelously well, or you have to broadcast an insane amount of energy all over the place.

In theory this (which /is/ the Tesla idea) is not a broadcast system. It’s more like a waveguide and it’s more like a wire. The only energy you have to put it is the energy you take out. Plus the losses, plus pumping the standing waves.

A claim is that the idea is theoretically possible with the right conditions: my math and physics stopped at undergraduate level and I can’t analyze that claim.

A further claim is that it is possible to create the right conditions. Tesla didn’t succeed with that, and there doesn’t seem to be any published data supporting the contention.

I hesitate to call it a “scan”. There are people out there who make a good living proposing and developing unsuccessful ideas with somebody else’s money, but I don’t know that there is anything dishonest about it. Some people put money on a horse at 100:1. Is that a scam? Even given that long-odds horses are never fairly priced, is it a scam?

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