WiTricity 2007 MIT (Marin Soljacic) — 100-Year Wardenclyffe Validation
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Tesla's dream of wireless power was buried for a century, and the record shows money killed it, not physics.
Who they are
A 2007 MIT experiment led by physicist Marin Soljacic proving wireless power transfer really works.
What they do
His team lit a 60-watt bulb across 2 meters of open air using two tuned coils, then founded WiTricity to commercialize it.
How it works
The engine points to the 100-year gap between Tesla's Wardenclyffe tower being torn down (1901-1917) and this 2007 proof: Tesla's design was sound but couldn't be metered and billed, so financiers around JP Morgan, Edison-GE, and Westinghouse starved it, and a 1935 utility law locked that metered model in.
Why it matters
The point is the delay was enforced by who controls the money, not by any scientific limit; even after the 2007 proof, wireless power stayed marginal, while metered nuclear-backed power for data centers keeps consolidating.
The engine's record — word for word
MIT physicist Marin Soljacic + team published 'Wireless power transfer via strongly coupled magnetic resonances' in Science (Jun 7 2007), empirically demonstrating non-radiative mid-range wireless power transfer by lighting a 60-watt bulb across 2 meters with ~40% efficiency using two coupled-resonator coils tuned to the same frequency. Founded WiTricity Corporation (2007) to commercialize the technology, subsequently licensed for EV wireless charging + medical implant applications. Per Report #92 H1 + Finding 003-004: the 100-year gap between Tesla's 1903-1917 Wardenclyffe demolition (`wardenclyffe_tesla_tower_1901_1917`) and the 2007 MIT Soljacic empirical validation proves the Compound-Path-Null hypothesis wrong regarding technological limits. The delay was enforced by capital architecture, not physics — Tesla's design was physically sound but financially unmonetizable under the meter-and-bill paradigm that JP Morgan / Edison-GE / Westinghouse capital syndicate had engineered + that PUHCA (`puhca_1935`) locked in. The 2007 Soljacic publication did not break the operator-class enclosure — wireless power remains marginal in the commercial grid 19 years later (limited to EV pads + medical implants), while hyperscaler-nuclear PPAs and Centrus HALEU substrate (`haleu_bottleneck` + R91 scorecard[108]) continue to consolidate the metered base-load.
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