https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower
From Wiki:
Wardenclyffe Tower (1901–1917), also known as the Tesla Tower, was an
early wireless transmission station designed and built by Nikola Tesla
in Shoreham, New York in 1901-1902. Tesla intended to transmit
messages, telephony and even facsimile images across the Atlantic to
England and to ships at sea based on his theories of using the Earth
to conduct the signals. His decision to scale up the facility and add
his ideas of wireless power transmission to better compete with
Guglielmo Marconi's .....
end cit.
So Tesla had the crackpot idea of wireless power distribution.
Wiki is trying to cover up Tesla's brain fart with the
Trans-Atlantic story which I never will believe.
I bet one dollar that Tesla always had that energy distribution
in mind. Why would he install an omnidirectional antenna when he
wanted to bridge the Atlantic. If you buy that fairy tale,
then be happy and go tend your sheep.
Wardenclyffe is said to have 300 kWatt.
(I estimated 100kW based on older info).
Assuming a simplified isotropic antenna radiation pattern of a
semi-dome with 1000 meter radius those 300 Kwatt will be radiated
through a surface of about 6 million square meters.
That means, with an antenna mounted on a TESLA car of the size about
6 square meters in a distance of 1000 meters you will receive about
one millionth of the radiated energy.
Any efficiency, radiation pattern and losses disregarded,
just as an first guess, to calm down the fanatics here.
The antenna on your TESLA car will receive 0,3 Watt
of theoretical HF energy flow.
Introducing more plausible efficiency considerations,
you will receive something in the range of a few milliwatts.
My calculation is correct unless you can do a better one.
One millionth means 99,999999 percent of the energy goes up to the
clouds and into the soil and elsewhere but not to the prospective
paying consumer.
That's the reason why Morgan kicked Tesla out of his office,
by real physical force.
TESLA was nuts.
Which does not diminish Tesla's merits,
but it proves that geniuses also can make mistakes
and fool themselves.
BTW, would the USA patent office grant me a patent on the lever,
if I would file such a patent claim,
even then when my name is not SAINT TESLA?
w.