From what I understand the output would be based on the needs of the citizens in any given area. Excess power would be collected by absorbers and redirected into the grid. Transformers would help reduce waste.
None of this matters. Look up the inverse square law. The losses of energy are massive. This is very
fundamental physics and nothing short of magic will change how any of this works.
You'd need to broadcast absolutely mind-blowingly massive amounts of energy to run a few light bulbs a few miles away... while generating insanely huge electromagnetic fields right next to the broadcasting station, since most of the energy that you broadcast will just disperse over a huge area. It's like you're trying to read a book at night by lighting a fire 5 miles, bright enough to illuminate your book page. Next to the reader, a tiny candle might be sufficient to illuminate the paper, at 5 miles distance, you'd need a massive pyre. That's not a metaphor
that is literally how the inverse square law works.
Building an "Absorber" won't help you, since it will only recoup a tiny fraction of the energy that you broadcast after the inverse square law has taken its toll. Reducing the energy is meaningless, since you still waste the exact same percentage of energy, since the inverse square law will take its toll anyway.
Say you want to broadcast enough energy to light up a light bulb 2 miles away.
At 1 mile, you could power 4 light bulbs with the same amount of energy.
At half a mile, it would be 9. At 880 yards, it would be 16 light bulbs. This is a loss of energy of over 93% on a distance of 1.5 miles..
Meanwhile, the loss of energy for a regular cable is roughly 1% at
60 miles.
This means that a cable is a more efficient means of energy transmission, even at the distance
of a few feet.
Again: This is fundamental physics and you should be able to understand this just by reading the Wiki article.
You could circumferent this by changing the sizes of antennas, which would mean someone might get away with a 1 meter antenna at 1 mile distance to the broadcasting system, however the guy 4 miles away would need an antenna 16 meters in size. The guy one mile further down the road needs a 25m antenna and so on.
I'm not going to put much faith into a Quora-link when it makes as little sense as the stuff that this guy wrote. This is literally on the level of Perpetuum Mobile machines, it's utter nonsense and half his text could be summarized with "And then magic happens and this somehow generates free energy for everyone but we still somehow need these towers that also magically work". Bonuspoints for the dude's bio: "William Beaty, 35yrs Elect Eng, Tesla fanatic since 1973, built devices from Tesla patents" and otherwise describes himself as "Science Hobbyist". Especially when the stuff that he writes is just the usual mindless gushing over Tesla and the evil capitalists who prevented free power to everyone. And he sort of misunderstood the Schumann Resonance, it seems. To all intents and purposes, this guy is just some random dude on the internet and it's not hard finding any number of random dudes on the internet, that contradict his statements, therefore, his statements are pretty much irrelevant.
And just to say it once more: Everything what I just said is based on fundamental physics. The Quora dude insinuates that the tower just acts as a charging device for the atmosphere (which -again!!!- magically seems to just accept unlimited amounts of energy without experiencing loss, that's utter nonsense).
