A Day Late, A Dollar Short

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What if I told you that you could do away with electric cords, cell phone chargers, power lines, expensive batteries, and potentially, even gas-chugging automobiles? What if I told you that you are paying one hundred percent too much for your electricity bill? What if you could have free, wireless power and as much as you needed or wanted? This is not an alternate reality in an alternate dimensional universe. It is what could have and still can happen if our society wasn’t dominated and controlled by capitalism. We have wireless internet, wireless cell phones, and wireless radios; So, why not wireless electricity? Let us look at some of the evidence: so that we may determine causes that have, in effect, duped our entire society into believing that electricity is supposed to be a costly, grid-locked resource.
Aside from being my all-time personal hero, Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest inventors and electrical engineers this world has ever seen. And yet, he gets little to no credit compared to the history books hero, Thomas Edison. Tesla’s ingenious patented over 1400 inventions, ...

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