Could China’s lunar laser tower bring Nikola Tesla’s free energy dream to life?

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Chinese scientists propose a lunar laser tower on the moon’s south pole aiming to realize Nikola Tesla's concept of wireless electricity transmission. The project could leverage near-continuous sunlight on crater rims and water ice deposits in shadowed regions to generate and transmit energy.

Legendary inventor Nikola Tesla’s dream of transmitting electricity wirelessly never became a reality on Earth. But more than a century later, Chinese scientists believe the concept could find its first practical application on the moon. Their proposal focuses on the moon’s south pole, where crater rims receive near-continuous sunlight while permanently shadowed regions nearby – believed to contain valuable “water ice”, or frozen water trapped on or beneath the lunar surface – remain in...