What if Tesla emigrated to Australia instead of the USA?

omnimercurial

Would Tesla's wireless transmitted electricity be a more accepted idea by the Australian Government?

Would the idea of electrifying the whole of Australia by Cables etc prove daunting enough in cost for the Govt to take a gamble on Tesla's inventions being cheaper?

Would Tesla find gaining private investment more likely than getting Govt support?

And lastly... What kind of an Australia would emerge from a technological foundation of Tesla's design and making?
 

Just Leo

The rich, greedy enterpreneur/industrialist class which financed Tesla's experiments could not back wireless power transmission because nobody knew how to put on a meter to charge money for it. Would a government act any different?
 

wolf_brother

Banned
More likely in remote, less industrialized, less urban, less populated, Australia Tesla is able to carry out his experiments in peace (e.g. not continually hampered by Edison and his cronies), which in and of itself would likely provide for better results for Tesla and his technologies.
 

mowque

Banned
Just Leo said:
The rich, greedy enterpreneur/industrialist class which financed Tesla's experiments could not back wireless power transmission because nobody knew how to put on a meter to charge money for it. Would a government act any different?
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The wireless energy thing was never going to work. It was gimmick, at best.
 

Arachnid

Tesla is still going to be a poor businessman and his more practical ideas are still going to be picked up by someone else so I doubt much of a change. Though you could have a strong Australian electronic industry resulting from this but I doubt it. Australia simply doesn't have the scale so sustain something like GE.
 

omnimercurial

Wouldnt Tesla based electrification be feasable without metering if it was a nationalised utility? Perhaps an Electricity tax for Citizens, Businesses, Industries etc to maintain infrastructure and provide output?
 

Dathi THorfinnsson

omnimercurial said:
Would Tesla's wireless transmitted electricity be a more accepted idea by the Australian Government?

Would the idea of electrifying the whole of Australia by Cables etc prove daunting enough in cost for the Govt to take a gamble on Tesla's inventions being cheaper?
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Quite possibly, I suppose.

omnimercurial said:
And lastly... What kind of an Australia would emerge from a technological foundation of Tesla's design and making?
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Very backwards and technologically unadvanced. If they go with major electrification schemes that don't work, that will sour the whole idea of electricity, likely, and make provision of electricity (especially in rural areas) take a lot longer to happen.

Tesla's wireless transmission of energy didn't work. (In any useable form, anyway.)
 

omnimercurial

Would it not be possible to make integrated circuits that are shielded to allow computer development & other applications while still utilising a Tesla wireless electric supply? Could an actual Computer not be a sealed unit/device making the electricity controlled & unable to disrupt the required functionality?
 
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