WIRELESS POWER

TRANSMISSIONOlivia Wunsch

Section 06

Background Information

Thomas Edison

• Invented electricity

• Electric conductor

• Household lamp

Background Information Cont’d

Nikola Tesla

• 1899 to 1900

• Wireless Power Transmission

• Tesla Tower

http://www.teslasociety.com/teslatower.htm

Tesla Tower

How It Works

• Complex process

• Principle of resonant coupling

• Coils need to be shrunk down

• Problem with distance

Advantages

• Eliminates transmission line cables, towers and sub stations

• Global scale

• Cost of electrical energy reduced for consumer

• Possibilities of power

Disadvantages

• Capital Cost is high

• Not successfully implemented

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