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Wasn't Tesla consumed with beamed power? I seem to remember that was what Wardenclyffe was about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower

I remember reading a Repairman Jack novel about it. I think it was Conspiracies.

AFAIK (which isnt far) he was always talking about using ground wave transmission, too; which no one else had any idea how that was supposed to work, then til now.

> no one else

What makes you think he did?

Elon Musk giving shade to space based power "You'd have to convert photon to electron to photon back to electron. What's the conversion rate?"

[1] https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a8101/elon-musk-...

who cares?

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