[Flavius]

To bad Tesla is not around, with free energy, you would be able either to use it directly or convert to hydrogen...

But off course there is no profit in free. On the other note, well someone took all his files so we dont really know what he was trying to get to. On an cool note the dude was good friends with Einstein and Mark Twain...

so, anyways , 2c worth...

Nikola Tesla, Our Father of AC Current The Wardenclyffe Tower located in Shoreham, Long Island, New York.

One of the most important inventions of Nikola Tesla was was the electrical transmitter. Shortly after leaving his Colorado research facility and returning to New York, Tesla began construction of an gigantic version of this invention, to be known as The Wardenclyffe Tower. Constructed between 1900-1905, the tower stood 187 ft into the air, with a 68 ft metal dome The purpose of the tower was to transmit wireless messages across the Atlantic and, as he had told his financier J.P. Morgan, provide free energy to the entire globe.

Tesla believed this to be a simple procedure, and later confirmed through experimentation, that the Earth conducts electricity naturally, much like a metal ball. Tesla hypothesized that Earth could be charged from a single location and energy could be safely extracted from any other point on the globe's surface.

The Earth could be pumped with electricity and anyone on its surface could remove it by simply placing a wire into the ground. This energy could be withdrawn in unlimited amounts for unlimited uses, free for all the world's people!

The Wardenclyffe Tower was never completed. Morgan refused Tesla the funds necessary to complete construction, and finding alternate financing proved impossible. The Tower at Wardenclyffe was later dismantled under F.B.I. supervision.

Now the Wardenclyffe Tower and facility is listed in the National Historical Site, and on July, 1976 a plaque bearing the following inscription was placed near the entrance to Tesla's Wardenclyffe laboratory by the people of Yugoslavia:

IN THIS BUILDING DESIGNED BY STANFORD WHITE, ARCHITECT, NIKOLA TESLA, BORN SMILJAN, (Croatia, Serbian National by Birth/Heritage)YUGOSLAVIA 1856, DIED NEW YORK, USA 1943, CONSTRUCTED IN 1901-1905 WARDENCLYFFE, HUGE RADIO STATION WITH ANTENNA TOWER 187 FT. HIGH (DESTROYED 1917), WHICH WAS TO SERVE AS HIS FIRST WORLD COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM. IN MEMORY OF 120TH ANNIVERSARY OF TESLA'S BIRTH AND 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF USA INDEPENDENCE - July 10, 1976

Doesn't it seem ironic that such a device existed back in the early 1900's. Tesla had the right idea but the Government could not find a way to place a meter on free energy. It seems such a shame that we cannot work for mans benefit instead of a monetary benefit of a few people and governments.

[Flavius]

http://www.iuser.iwarp.com/main/tesla.htm

the back up on the info...

[o_zarkman44]

They who control the energy supply, control the consumer.
I remember my grandfather talking about resisting the Rural electric lines being run to his house because "they couldn't afford it". They were getting by just fine. But REC made him a deal, with a good sell to the neighbors, so everyone on his road could get hooked up.
Like a junkie with a needle in his arm, when does the need ever go away once hooked?

[DugwayDuke]

"The Earth could be pumped with electricity and anyone on its surface could remove it by simply placing a wire into the ground. This energy could be withdrawn in unlimited amounts for unlimited uses, free for all the world's people!"

And if one were to 'take a leak' on this electrically charged ball? No doubt that would be a 'stimulating expereince'.

[Dan Evans]

The Earth could be pumped with electricity and anyone on its surface could remove it by simply placing a wire into the ground. This energy could be withdrawn in unlimited amounts for unlimited uses, free for all the world's people!

Only English majors believe crap like this.

[Centurion2000]

tesla bump

[whd23]

Tesla believed this to be a simple procedure, and later confirmed through experimentation, that the Earth conducts electricity naturally, much like a metal ball.

No argument there, the Earth is comprised of materials which conduct electricity (with various resistances).

The Earth could be pumped with electricity and anyone on its surface could remove it by simply placing a wire into the ground.

And the other end of this wire would connect to...? For current to flow it is required that there be a difference in voltage, and that there be a closed loop (Kirchoff's current law). So you'd still need a voltage source at a different potential from the Earth, Tesla's tower wouldn't have provided you with that.

This energy could be withdrawn in unlimited amounts for unlimited uses, free for all the world's people!

Sounds horrible. A by-product of energy use is the conversion of said energy into waste heat. Unlimited energy use would result in unlimited production of waste heat. That's bad.