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Power in the Air

2011 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower was supposed to broadcast electricity through the air to the whole world, and it failed, abandoned half-built on Long Island when the money ran out. This film traces that failure forward to the labs and companies now trying to finish what Tesla started, sending power wirelessly across a room or a runway instead of a continent. It looks at the physics of resonant induction and microwave transmission, the practical hurdles that sank Tesla's original scheme, and the narrower, more achievable versions of his idea now reaching consumer gadgets and industrial equipment. Engineers and researchers explain what changed between 1900 and now: better materials, tighter focus, and modest goals replacing Tesla's plan to power the planet from a single tower. The film treats Tesla's failure not as a dead end but as the first data point in a problem still being solved, one phone charger and one prototype at a time.