In the early 1900s, one of Europe’s greatest innovators began experimenting with the idea of generating electricity from the air, harnessing the natural electrical charges that exist all around us. Nikola Tesla never made that dream a reality, but now a new set of Europeans say they’re close to achieving what he couldn’t.
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