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NO pipe dream... just greed, my opinion. electricity, and drains it into the ground. Because the ground is conductive, it doesn't stop. Rather, it spreads out like a radio wave, traveling at the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second. And it keeps going, because it's a powerful wave; it doesn't peter out after a few miles. It passes through the iron core of the earth with little trouble. After all, molten iron is very conductive. When the wave reaches the far side of the planet, it bounces back, like a wave in water bounces when it reaches an obstruction. Since it bounces, it makes a return trip; eventually, it returns to the point of origin. Now, this idea might seem wild. But it isn't science fiction. We bounced radar beams off the moon in the 1950's, and we mapped Venus by radar in the 1970's. Those planets are millions of miles away. The earth is a mere 3,000 miles in diameter; sending an electromagnetic wave through it is a piece of cake. We can sense earthquakes all the way across the planet by the vibrations they set up that travel all that distance. So, while at first thought it seems amazing, it's really pretty straight forward. But, as I said, it's a typical example of how Tesla thought. And then he had one of his typically Tesla ideas.
(my comment) One time I'm not sure if this article covers it, but he blew out they hydroelectric dam, and light up a city in long islad, where sparks would fly out of furniture ground etc..(my comment)
Nikola Tesla: Humanitarian Genius Excerpted from vol 6, no. 4, "Power and Resonance", the "Journal of the International Tesla Society". For further information on the topics discussed below: "The Tesla Book Co.", Box 1649, Greenville, Texas 75401

http://www.sumeria.net/tech/tesla.html

It seems like this may be a religion to you. So I will only take on one of your beliefs. The earth conducts, but is resistive, not superconductive. The resistance is about 137 ohms, enough to lose a lot of energy in an earth transmission system. Question. If the earth could be used as a conductor, why does every electric company spend the money to use two conductors? One to deliver the electricity and one to return it? Answer, copper losses are less than the earths.

Like I said, the power cannot be "free" because to draw it out, it has to be put in somewhere else. Think of the earth as an electrical storage tank . Right now the tank is empty because there are no Tesla towers running. If someone builds a Tesla tower and starts pumping energy into the storage tank, then someone else can only draw out as much as is pumped in. Now, those Tesla towers must have a source of enegy also and each one would have a limit on how much can put in and therefore how much can be drawn out. This costs money. Freeloading countries would put in little if any energy and since it is "free" would draw out all they could. When something is "free" people have little incentive to conserve.

Believe me, this is a zero sum game.