David VanHorn <microbrix <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > He seemed to be able light a large hall without any wires whatever. But
> > he was never able
> > to make it a commercial success.
> 
> He wasn't too concerned with efficiency either.

Anyway, I think that H. Hertz has precedence on resonant power transfer, with
his famous experiment. After all, it takes a few Watts to run a spark gap:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Rudolf_Hertz

However, he thought it was 'useless' for practical purposes ;-). Until the MIT
scheme achieves better efficiency it may stay true.

Peter P.



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