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Originally Posted by Mike Okitch
The problem is not so much to transmit the electricity.
For a power company, the major problem is...how do you bill for it?
Take an apartment building for example. You bill someone by the minute like a cell phone? Because counters as we know them would be obsolete, so you can't do readings of that.
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Right.
The reason this wasn't adopted is because it means free power. Where do you put the meter when there's no wires?
Not like you can't steal power wirelessly these days, but yeah. Sucks that capitalism would crush such a major technical advance.