Reconfigured Tesla coil aligns, electrifies materials from a distance

phys.org ^ | April 14, 2016 | Provided by: Rice University

[Red Badger]

Tesla Tech Ping!............................

[jmcenanly]

Here is video.

[rjsimmon]

This is quite fantastic. Would anyone with better knowledge of Tesla coils enlighten me on whether or not they could be configured on a nano-scale? As in, could their physical size be reduced to something in the range of 1-2mm? Possibly smaller? This could revolutionize the medical field wrt cancer treatments or other micro-surgical procedures. Further, the idea could be a tremendous step in the direction of deflector arrays as well as repulsor arrays.

[WMarshal]

This is a nice break from arguing election politics. Really cool. Thanks!

[Navy Patriot]

Two difficulties, the strength and effective distance of the field is a function of the diameter of the coil, and physical thickness of the high voltage insulator necessary.

[Navy Patriot]

Excellent post, thanks!

[G Larry]

My kid brother thinks Tesla is god.

I helped him build his first Tesla coil in 67......when he was 11.

He’s since built massive Tesla coils.....tapping into electrical lines on his property....

Lined his ceiling w copper to keep from burning the house down....

[MarvinStinson]

Very interesting. Thanks.

[DannyTN]

"This is a nice break from arguing election politics. Really cool. Thanks!"

I'm building a giant Tesla coil in Cincinnati to force the RNC delegates to align the way they were supposed to.

[knarf]

https://youtu.be/w1d0Lg6wuvc

[buckeye49]

For some reason this man has fascinated me ever since I learned what he was all about. I understand virtually none of it. But the one thing that has puzzled me is that all his ideas seem to lead to something that is incredibly LOUD.

[Red Badger]

Tesla was an electrical genius. But his business acumen was very lacking. He sold the rights to his AC generating system to finance other experiments for $200k, a huge sum no doubt in those days, but he failed to get any royalties as part of the deal.................

[Red Badger]

http://www.arborsci.com/tesla-coil?gclid=CML18-LKjswCFYIlgQodKWICxA

[BobL]

They’re still crap - especially their drive train problems.

[Red Badger]

Wrong Tesla.......................

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

"Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is not novel... We find it in the delightful myth of Antheus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid mathematicians... Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic? If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic -- and this we know it is, for certain – then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature."

Nikola Tesla, (in a speech in New York to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1891. Quoted from his biography, Margaret Cheney?, Tesla: Man Out of Time)

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[Red Badger]

Tesla’s World Wireless System:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wireless_System

He actually invented RADIO...........................

[SunkenCiv]

He did, intro’d it at the exposition in Chicago in 1893, and eventually won a pyrrhic victory in court against Marconi. The Wardenclyffe tower was for the wireless delivery of electrical power — another idea finding application today with wirelessly recharging phones. :’)

[Ozark Tom]

Had a contract with George Westinghouse based on every electric motor rated horsepower produced. George ran upon hard financial times fighting General Electric run by Edison. Tesla ripped up his contract, allowing George to redirect those funds against Edison, whom Tesla despised.