Re: About wireless energy transfer

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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>

In all fairness, Soljacic recognized Tesla's previous efforts in wireless
power transmission in his published paper.  The press stories are often
written by science writers, who determine for themselves what and what not
to print.

Dave"

   Soljacic mentioned Tesla's name and cited a Tesla patent as his 
first reference but that is not the same as recognizing what he'd 
done - to do that he would have had to read it and understand it and 
I'm convinced he didn't and doesn't even know what it was about.  He 
never once mentioned that Tesla used and advocated the use of coupled 
resonant circuits tuned to the same frequency or show any evidence 
that he knew that was the essence of Tesla's various schemes - read it again.
Furthermore, if you look at the particular patent he cited it doesn't 
even mention once the use of a resonant receiver - it covers only the 
design of a "Wardenclyffe type" transmitter and seems to be centered 
on the peculiar form of the top terminal.  None of the claims even 
mentions a resonant receiver.   If he had cited Tesla's # 645,576 the 
situation would be a little different, at least if he'd given any 
evidence that he'd studied it.  All of the rest of the references 
involve nonresonant coupling such as is used in maglev trains.  I've 
just reread the Soljacic paper and, although I may have missed it, I 
couldn't find a single statement which indicated that the authors 
were aware that anyone else was even aware that resonant circuits 
tuned to the same frequency had greater coupling than nonresonant. My 
belief is that they did a literature search on something like 
"wireless energy transfer", noticed that particular Tesla patent, 
referenced it without bothering to read it, and were completely 
unaware that coupled resonant circuits have been in general use for 
over a century.  As far as I can see they claim to be the first to 
have recognized these marvellous properties............

Ed

P.S.  Although you'd never guess it the paper bugs me because of its 
style and arrogance.