The Uses Of Remote Power

People have used electricity in a controlled fashion only since the nineteenth century. For many years, electricity was associated with the light switch. Upon entering a room, the first thing people did was flick a switch on the wall and turn on the lights. This succeeded the older custom of lighting a candle or bringing a candle or torch into the room with you. The advent of remote power in the last few decades has changed all that. Soon, light switches may fade from familiarity, as have candles and torches in many parts of the world.

The possibility of using remote power or wireless energy transfer was demonstrated for the first time in the late nineteenth century by the famous inventor Tesla. However, this innovation saw little use until many decades later in the twentieth century. There were immediate uses for such remote power, but these uses were not part of everyday life as of what has become now.



After the space age began, much interest developed in the idea of transmitting solar power from space to a collection point on the surface of the planet. This accelerated the development of machines that possessed the qualities of activating and deactivating via power transmitted in a wireless fashion. Popular exhibitions of futuristic homes in the late nineteenth century depicted lights, televisions and radios that activated using remote power. These devices slowly came into common use as the last century came to a close.

Now people use remote power for numerous applications both in industry and in domestic settings. It is in the domestic setting where people have noticed the significance of this advancement, since industrial use of this was never close at hand for many people. In the last decade, they become a ubiquitous feature of many common machines and devices used by people every day.

The remote activation of car locks began at the end of the last century. Here remote power made an impact in the minds of man people as they became accustomed to the beeping noise associated with this function in many of the more modern cars. Both alarms and car locks on newer vehicles were using remote power by the end of the twentieth century. It was not long before they were used to start cars.

These uses of this process involve the transmission of very small amounts of electronic data that then cause another piece of equipment to utilize a locally stored power, such as a car's gasoline or battery. Future hopes include the possibility of transmitting large amounts of power through open space. Issues of safety are the basic impediments to this next development of remote power.