Can anyone explain this statement related to tesla's work.?

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Tesla's concept of transferring electrical energy wirelessly through electrostatic forces and changing magnetic flux is rooted in his experiments but remains largely theoretical and inefficient for practical use today. The discussion highlights the confusion surrounding Tesla's legacy, with claims of suppression and debate over his contributions to radio technology. While some believe Tesla's ideas have been misrepresented or exaggerated, others point out the impracticality of his proposed wireless power grid due to high costs and infrastructure challenges. The notion of wireless energy transfer is acknowledged, but its current application is limited. Overall, Tesla's innovative concepts continue to spark interest and debate, despite their feasibility issues.
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"Tesla sent electrostatic forces through natural media across a conductor situated in the changing magnetic flux and transferred electrical energy to a wireless receiver"

Can anyone elaborate this..?Is this employed now..? if no, why..?
 
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I believe that expression comes from the wikipedia article and other web sites about him. I can't find similar on the web before 2001 or using google books. He's become some kind of god in certain parts of the web and it's hard to tell fact from fiction.

If you want to know who invented radio there are several contenders and lots of heated debate.
 
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I can't find similar on the web before 2001
That's because Tesla's invention of the web before 2001 was suppressed by the authorities, along with so much else that he did :biggrin:
 
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"Tesla sent electrostatic forces through natural media across a conductor situated in the changing magnetic flux and transferred electrical energy to a wireless receiver"

Can anyone elaborate this..?Is this employed now..? if no, why..?

Sounds like utter gobbledegook to me.

Probably stems from his having successfully shown that you CAN transfer power to a wireless receiver, it's just grossly inefficient. I have read that he once proposed a grid of his wireless stations throughout the country but that detailed analysis showed that stations had to be no more than about a mile apart and building a grid of 1 mile by 1 mile stations throughout the country, plus the transmitting stations, would have cost approximately the gross national product of the entire planet to buy the land and build everything.
 
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It may be shown from the equations of electromagnetism, by James Clerk Maxwell in the 1860’s, that the speed of light in the vacuum of free space is related to electric permittivity (ϵ) and magnetic permeability (μ) by the equation: c=1/√( μ ϵ ) . This value is a constant for the vacuum of free space and is independent of the motion of the observer. It was this fact, in part, that led Albert Einstein to Special Relativity.
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