It wouldn't simply appear in their toasters and televisions -those things still need to be plugged into the wall. The wall is plugged into the grid,
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it would simply appear without wires, without grids, and without meters. It sounds like a weird story, and it is.
Hmmm. Yes, Teslas free energy refers to a radical theory on how it is created, however he also created a free distribution network without wires/grids/meters. The mechanics of which are easily obtainable and too much information to attempt here.
I did not realize I was a conspiracy theorist until now. I guess if I am suggesting that marketing influences research and suppresses inventions contrary to the companies "agenda" then that makes me one.
I will now try to successfully argue for "The conspiracy theory".
I love talking about "Nicola Tesla", as it was his story that made me interested in science way back when. I may be a little more versed in the life of Tesla than many due to this fact; and his is a story worth telling.
Tesla was the world's most famous man at the turn of the 19th century. His best friend was Mark Twain, and had a rivalry with Thomas Edison. He is the forgotten electrical genius of our modern Space Age. Every time we turn on a light, start up a car, use a computer, or watch television, it is thanks to Tesla. He invented AC electricity and power plants, the electric motor, radio, loudspeakers, the Tesla coil, vacuum tubes, x-rays, remote control, radar, robots, ignition systems, the speedometer, fluorescent lights, neon, particle beams and registered over 1000 patents.
Yes. Skinwalker. I see your point about needing walls, and wires, and grids. This is how we think of energy arriving through our homes, and quite frankly the idea Tesla was proposing does seem rather dangerous to me, but none-the-less Tesla devised a system to transmit electricity through the air, and with better results through the ground. Quite literally you would be plugging your toaster into the ground if Nicola Tesla had gotten his way.
There are many Movies and Videos about this, and here are a few good ones. They are very short, but explain his successes far better than I can do with mere words.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2024408465029239288&q=nicola+tesla&hl=en
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=448493458864593229&q=nicola+tesla&hl=en
The academy award winning movie "the prestige" won an academy award for their portrayal of the sticking lightbulbs in the ground experiment which operates under the "energy transmitted through the earth" I was referring to with the toaster in the ground.
This belongs in the history forum more than here (maybe later), but as you know I am attempting to prove a "conspiracy theory"
Tesla was crazy. He was also absolutely a brilliant engineer, but a nutbar none-the-less. He would always do things in multiples of threes, like eating, chewing or walking. He measured the volume of his food before he ate it. He liked to wow guests by running electrical current through his body to light lamps. His weirdness caused him problems with his various employers and landlords over the years. He died surrounded by pigeons in a New York apartment.
A century later, many of his discoveries are just beginning to see the light of day. His real secrets, however, are still classified under the National Security Act of 1947. He invented a air defence beam that he tried to sell to the british government that would destroy 300 planes simultaneously.
His radical ideas for free energy are just being theorized as possible now.
In the summer of 1931, Nikola Tesla, the inventor of alternating current and the holder of some 1000 other U.S. patents, along with his nephew Peter Savo, installed a box on the front seat of a brand new Pierce-Arrow touring car at the company factory in Buffalo, New York. The box is said to have been 24 inches long, 12 inches wide and 6 inches high. Out of it protruded a 1.8 meter long antenna and two ¼ inch metal rods. Inside the box was reputed to be some dozen vacuum tubes -- 70-L-7 type -- and other electrical parts. Two wire leads ran from the box to a newly-installed 40 inch long, 30 inch diameter AC motor that replaced the gasoline engine.
As the story goes, Tesla inserted the two metal rods and announced confidently, "We now have power" and then proceeded to drive the car for a week, "often at speeds of up to 90 mph." One account says the motor developed 1,800 rpm and got fairly hot when operating, requiring a cooling fan. The "converter" box is said to have generated enough electrical energy to also power the lights in a home.
The car is said to have ended up on a farm 20 miles outside of Buffalo, "not far from Niagara Falls."
So what was the power source? Some charged "black magic", while others remained naturally skeptical. Tesla is reputed to have removed the box and returned to his New York City laboratory without revealing how he did it, though the suspicion lingers to this day, on the 150th anniversary of his birth in Smiljan, Croatia on July 9/10, 1856, that he had somehow tapped into the earth's magnetic field or perhaps even more exotically, zero point energy or gravitation waves.
The Tesla shield is supposedly designed to protect us from electromagnetic radiation (radio waves).
He attended the University of Prague and worked as an electrical engineer in Germany, Hungary and France before emigrating to the United States in 1884. He got off the boat with 4 cents in his pocket and was working for Thomas Edison within a few months.
He did not get along with Edison. Their colossal egos collided. So he quit or was fired with Edison still owing him about $50,000 (depending on your political allegiances.) Just to piss off Edison he chose this time to debut his invention of alternating current. (which was vastly superior to Edisons Direct Current.) His writing suggest he had envisioned it a decade earlier. In 1885, George Westinghouse, bought patent rights to Tesla's system of alternating-current. Edison was peeved.
He developed in rapid succession the induction motor, new types of generators and transformers, a system of alternating-current power transmission, fluorescent lights, and a new type of steam turbine... (whew, busy dude) then about 1898 he suddenly became interested in radio.
He was obsessed with his idea of transmitting energy through the air. When his finances dried up, he continued his research pretending to be working on wireless communications. He lied to the most powerful financier in the world.
On Long Island he began construction of a wireless broadcasting tower. The project was funded with $150,000 capital from financier J. P. Morgan. After a long time with no obvious success in communications Tesla admitted that his primary research was his free energy, and his "through the earth" transmission system. Morgan was furious. The project was abandoned when Morgan withdrew his financial support. He relocated to Colorado Springs, Colorado. Upon his arrival he told reporters that he was conducting experiments transmitting signals from Pikes Peak to Paris. He was developing a system for wireless telegraphy, telephony, and the transmission of power. He got his American citizen ship and I guess he started to relax, because this is when the real weirdness began to flow.
In the Colorado Springs lab, he "recorded" signals of what he concluded were extraterrestrial radio signals. His announcements and data were rejected by the scientific community without any investigation of the validity of his data. He noted measurements of repetitive signals from his receiver which are substantially different from the signals he had noted from storms and earth noise. Specifically, he later recalled, that the signals appeared in groups of clicks 1, 2, 3, and 4 clicks together. Tesla spent the latter part of his life trying to signal Mars.
And why not, he'd been totally dicked over by the patent office. He'd patented several fudamental nuts& bolts in radio and the US Government wanted to avoid having to the pay royalties that were he claimed for their use. Edisons and his backers applies pressure on the state department to award many of these patents to Marconi. For the backers, it was about money. They'd been funding Marconi and Edison for years. For Edison was personal. He just hated Tesla.
Later in life, Tesla announced to the media that he had developed a "Death-Ray" it was supposedly capable of destroying 2000 airplanes at a 250 mile distance. Although Tesla did allow photographs to be taken of a small-scale prototype in action, he withheld much of the information that would allow others to understand his design. Might have been real, might not (depending on your political allegiances.) but you can read about it . Tesla tried to sell his death ray to Great Britain for $3,000,000 and promised to make the British Isles invulnerable within three months. They didnt bite. Russia did, but he didnt deliver. Possibly becase he was becoming psychoticly paranoid and was convinced that the US government was making unsuccessful attempts to break into his hotel room.
His death ray was not all sci-fi. His idea was to use a gigantic electrostatic generator run by one of his turbines to acccelerate tiny particles of mercury until they became a stream of super high-powered bullets of several million volts. Since they were accelerated in a vacuum, Tesla needed a way to spit them out of the accelerator sphere without letting air in.
In the end, Marconi hit up the government for too much royalty cash during WWI. The patent office vindictively reinstated most of the patents to Tesla. Tesla was an american citizen. Marconi was not. So they waited until he died, so that it would be free. So in 1943, months after his death, Tesla patent number US645576 was reinstated's by the US Supreme Court, making the now deceased Tesla the official inventor of the radio.
O.K. if you have gotten this far then you must agree that financial backing and purchasers, such as Westinghouse and JP Morgan were very influential in Nicola Teslas life.
Imagine: Alternating current,electric motor,neon lights,remote control, and the radio. Plus many more. All from one mans mind. If he had financial backing for the "free energy" project, then perhaps his mind could have made it work.
If all a car needed to run was a small 24 inch box on the front seat who would suffer? Gas companies/stations, electrical companies, and that is just the tip of it. I am not saying it is possible, but I am saying "Nicola Tesla" said it was possible, and the man was a genius probably centuries ahead of his time.
O.K. that's the best argument I can give as to how the withdrawel of JP Morgans money hurt Tesla.
Other aspects of this argument are just common sense.
a) if you asked a cigarette company to back you, because you had a good idea for a non addictive cigarette. Would they want to help you create such a thing.
b) would Esso help you design a car that ran on solar power?
Not that these ideas would work, but if they stood a chance you'd be stuck inventing them in your garage.
Sorry to go off topic, but I think Nicola Tesla should be studied far more than what he has been. Everyone hears of Thomas Edison, but.....
I highly recommend the following video to anyone who does not know much about the life and times of NICOLA TESLA.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1959451995748125186&q=nicola+tesla&hl=en
He has proven many, many of his theories, he was quite an inspiration to any interested in science, and this video will leave you spellbound.
