"It's hugely inefficient to transmit power wirelessly." Just because it hasn't been done yet, doesn't mean it can't be done. There may well be physical propert

"It's hugely inefficient to transmit power wirelessly." Just because it hasn't been done yet, doesn't mean it can't be done. There may well be physical properties of our reality which haven't been discovered yet that will allow the efficient transmission of power through the atmosphere. If you look at it from a needs basis...the world needs much more power (every Indian and Chinese family is eventually going to buy a fridge and a TV, and ricecooker etc etc). We can't go on indefinitely building billion dollar power stations to support that need. There are two alternatives. An efficient way of transporting power long distances (continent to continent)...or...eventually localised power harvesting will be so cheap and ubitiquious that transporting power long distances won't be necessary. (Solar panels so cheap, like newspaper, they can be put on the roof and walls of every mud brick house). Never say never is all I'm saying.