翻译练习：Electricity Can Be Transmitted Through The Air(1)

Tesla's Heirs:Electricity Can Be Transmitted Through The Air

特斯拉的遗产：电力可以通过空气传输

A New Zealand firm is trying to make an old idea work commercially.

一个新泽西的公司正在试图让一个旧时的想法实现商业化

无线电力传输

Behind Niola Tesla's former laboratory at Wardenclyffe on Long Island, New York, are some old foundations. They are all that remains of a 57-metre tower which Tesla began building in 1901 as part of an experiment to transmit information and electricity wirelessly over long distances. It half worked. As he foretold, wireless communications have had world-changing effects. But he failed to get electric power itself to travel very far. As a consequence, within five years work stopped and the tower was later scrapped to help repay his debts. Tesla - a pioneer who, among other things, developed the generation and transmission of alternating current - faded into relative obscurity.

位于纽约长岛沃登克里弗的尼古拉特斯拉的实验室旧址背后，还有一些旧地基。这些是57米高塔目前还留下来的全部。特斯拉塔始建于1901年，是为了完成超远距离无线传输信息和电力的实验的一部分。实验只做了一半。正如他的预言，无线通信已经改变了这个世界。但是他不能将电力本身利用无线技术传输得非常远。也因此，相关工作在五年后就终止了，这些塔也被拆了用来还债。特斯拉这位发明了交流电发电机和远距离传输电力等诸多技术的先驱，也淡出了人们的视野。

无线电杆？！

And so it remained until Tesla's name was revived by Elon Musk as the brand for his electric-car company. Now Tesla's vision of wireless power transmission looks like making a comeback, too. Emrod, a firm based in Auckland, has collaborated with Powerco, a New Zealand electricity distributor, to develop a prototype system for use in an enclosed test facility. Then, in a separate project, the plan is to beam energy from a solar farm on the North Island to a client several kilometres away.

这种情况一直延续到艾隆・马斯克把特斯拉的名字用作他电动车的品牌，才又重新复活。如今特斯拉版本的无线电力传输技术看起来又要重返江湖了。埃姆罗德是一家设在奥克兰的公司，已经与一家新西兰电力分销商鲍尔科建立了合作，开发一个处于封闭实验场里的原型系统。在另一个项目中，他们计划将电子束从北岛的太阳能发电厂传输到几公里外的一个客户那里。