Witricity : wireless electricity

The seed which was sown in early 1900’s by Nicola Tesla started germinating in 2007 and is ready to spread its roots deep into the technological world. From the past days the transmission of messages has been developed in a significant process from letters to telephone, telephone to mobile, mobile to mails through internet. And these are facilitated by the electronic appliances such as mobiles, computers, laptops etc., like the evolutionary development creating revolution in the field of communication, scientists and technologists started a search which will soon turn our planet into an adobe of electricity. This search was stopped at Witricity (wireless +electricity).

Witricity, a portmanteau for wireless electricity, is a term coined initially by  Dave Gerding in 2005 and used by an MIT research team led by Prof. Marin Soljačić in 2007, to describe the ability to provide electrical energy to remote objects without wires.

Wireless power transmission is the process that takes place in any system where electrical energy is transmitted from a power source to an electrical load, without interconnecting wires in an electrical grid.

Now we shall discuss whether the transmission of power without wires is a theory or a reality. 

Every technology will have its own merits and demerits. We have to convert those demerits into merits and welcome the innovative ideas for making the life of man easier, as the budding technologists of 21^st century. Monthly electric utility bills from old-fashioned, fossil-fuelled, loss prone electrified wire-grid delivery services will be optional, much like “cable TV” of today. In the 21st century, “Direct TV” is the rage, which is an exact parallel of Tesla’s “Direct Electricity.”