NTT Inc. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI) conducted an optical wireless power transmission experiment using a laser ...

History lesson: In 1890, Nikola Tesla caused a total blackout in the town of Colorado Springs using a 140-foot Tesla coil. Creating a citywide power outage was not his goal. He wanted to power a light ...

However, the scientist was not going to give up and created a project for a power plant that could cope with high-voltage wireless power transmission. Tesla tried to use it to transmit messages ...

Transmitting electrical energy without wires. Wireless electricity mostly refers to devices that rest in a cradle or on a pad for charging. Transmitting electricity from a power grid without wires ...

Telecoms giant NTT and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have claimed a world record after conducting an optical wireless power transmission experiment using a laser beam to wirelessly transmit energy a ...

Engineers at Stanford have demonstrated a new method of transmitting electricity wirelessly to multiple devices. The wireless electricity transmission system they developed could send electricity to ...

Researchers demonstrated a 300 GHz-band wireless link that was able to transmit data over a single channel at a rate of 240 gigabits per second. The wireless communication system employs signal ...

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As I speak with people in businesses across the world, travel to meet with clients and take part in conferences, I face all sorts of questions about wireless electricity. Quite often, I need to dispel ...

Nikola Tesla wanted to beam power without wires. NASA talked about building power-generating satellites that would do the same thing. But now New Zealand’s second-largest power utility — Powerco — is ...

THE electrical engineer who wishes to keep pace with the development of his profession and desires to know something more than that which concerns only the particular branch in which he is engaged has ...