[NikolaeVarius]

Yeah, this is what im wondering. The proposed mechanism for this is that the wires generate electric fields that influence electrons remotely. Fine.

What happens when they are not close enough for any meaningful electric field interaction?

[robscallsign]

If they're not connected, then they're just two antennas. What happens when you get far away from your wifi hotspot or a cellphone tower?

The voltage/energy transmitted becomes vanishingly small, and smaller than the thermal noise of the electrons in the other antenna, and undetectable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%E2%80%93Nyquist_noise

[BHSPitMonkey]

He says near the end of the video that a Part 2 video is forthcoming with more exploration of:

- Different sized loops

- Wires closer together / farther apart

- Wires on the ground instead of in air

- Current on both sides of switch

- Wires in two big spread-out loops

- Different strength resistors

[jjoonathan]

The "fast plateau" is pitiful from a power delivery perspective even under tight coupling. Under looser coupling, it becomes proportionately more pitiful.