The (Nikola) Tesla Conspiracy (Junk Science/Energy Alert)

teslaconspiracy.com ^ | 2005 | Michael Finley & Mark DeMucha

[add925]

Gas prices are at record highs and the price of crude oil is only going up. The cost of electricity is skyrocketing, making it nearly impossible for most people to keep cool and safe during the blistering hot months of summer. Winter will be here soon and many won't be able to afford the outrageous cost of heating oil. We are teetering on a global energy crisis.

What would you say if I told you that for almost 100 years the technology has been available to provide the world with nearly free energy, an energy source that was self- renewing and virtually harmless to the environment? What would you say if I told you oil and energy companies were conspiring to keep these technologies away from us so that they can make maximum profits, regardless of the suffering it caused?

(later)

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[getitright]

Before knocking this, do some research. His theories are all based on scientific fact, and sound research. Probably one of the greatest geniuses in the field of electrical engineering

Indeed. And he would have amassed wealth to rival the oil magnates if he had not let Westinghouse off the hook. Tesla was offered $2.00 for every electric motor sold. Westinghouse was in a financial pinch and Nicolas told him he could skip it.

His papers were confiscated following his death by "immigration officials."

[X. OTerica]

Sounds suspiciously like a violation of the first law of Thermodynamics.

BTW, I think that Isaac Asimov’s definitions of the three laws are both accurate and somewhat amusing:

1st Law: You can’t win.
2nd Law: You can’t break even.
3rd Law: You don’t understand the rules of the game.

As a side note, there is in fact an atmospheric electric field that decreases with altitude. It has been demonstrated that this potential differential can lead to painful shocks when dealing with an isolated (ungrounded) vertical conductor e.g. pole, tower). However, I believe that the amperage is low and am not aware of it having been shown as a practical power source.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

This would make more sense if the Tesla conspiracy guys just started distributing generators that cost nothing to operate.

They're "free", right?

[add925]

If they explained how the AC electric generator works, that would be a start.

Sorry, not in the liberal playbook:

Liberal Business Plan #12:

1. Create Conspiracy
2. Write Book
3. Hit the Airwaves
4. Hit the Lecture Circuit

Repeat as often as necessary to afford that yacht. If plan fails, run for elected office or become a professor (see Liberal Business Plan #14).

[Doctor Stochastic]

"Too cheap to meter."

[newcats]

You need to do some reading on his oscillation experiments.

http://www.amasci.com/tesla/tesceive.html

[add925]

Too cheap to meter.

You are 100% correct IF we let the middle men tell us what to do.

Trouble is, we have not been smart/resourceful enough to cut the middle man out of the Energy distribution business.

The movement should start in Europe where Government fuel Taxation has ~tripled the pump price we pay. Europeans have more to gain initially if they can figure out how to wean themselves off the gas pump.

[Final Authority]

Both ethanol and soy oil requires more input energy than the resulting output (more so for ethanol) even factoring out sunlight. Neither are good alternatives unless you like to consume so-called fossil fuels at an increasing rate due to ethanol consumption. (there are many scientific studies and papers published verifying this observation that I can cite)

A crash program to develop nuclear generated electricity using intrinsically safe reactors built from a common design blueprint is the only hope we have to lessen the demand for fossil fuels consumption. We, however, have a lot of fossil fuel to burn buried under the high plains in the mountain states and in Canada. It just matters where one wants to have the environmental impact relative to what course to take.

[add925]

Both ethanol and soy oil requires more input energy than the resulting output (more so for ethanol) even factoring out sunlight.

What about the cooking oil reclamation? Granted, energy is needed to get it into that state, but its basically waste product afterwards that is disposed of.

Radioactive cars will be nuked by the Sierra Club. Also, so will the fuel underground in the North.

[bkepley]

Probably one of the greatest geniuses in the field of electrical engineering

A contributor of some note but also a bit of a charlatan. You have to be skeptical when it comes to Tesla who made a lot of claims and refused to demonstrate them.

[oyez]

That looks like a Tesla Jiffy Pop

[Phsstpok]

I just remember the Wainwright (sp) Towers on the cover.

Might you mean Wardenclyffe?

Built at Shoreham, Long Island, New York.

The story about "causing the Tunguska event" is off by a bit on the timeline, so virtually impossible, but the basic premise is that he had promised some demonstration from Wardenclyffe to an arctic expedition. Supposedly where they were was in direct line with Tunguska.

The Colorado work, which led to his lab blowing up and burning to the ground, involved his claim that he could transmit energy, once created, without wires and with no harm to people or the environment. He wasn't using resonance to create the energy but to transmit it. Some of his theories did say that he could tap other energy sources directly, such as the sun, under the right circumstances, but he never claimed to have achieved that.

The "reality based" version of the conspiracy that actually makes some sense is that the newly powerful oil and automobile industrial giants, Rockefeller and Ford, along with their good friend Edison (they really were good friends) didn't want the wireless power transmission system to go forward. That would mean that Westinghouse, Tesla's longtime business collaborator, would hold the whip hand, not them. They had his lab sabotaged and spent lots of money to discredit him, leaning on Edison's contacts in the newly emerging film industry to create the stereotype "mad scientist" based on caricatures of the eastern European Nikola Tesla.

Did you know that he had invented a radio control torpedo before 1900? He also had a resonance device small enough to fit in a coat pocket that he attached to the girders of a NY skyscraper under construction and almost brought it down during a 15 second test. That one was documented at the time in several NY newspapers. Helluva guy.

And maybe later on the thread I'll post the Tesla / Mark Twain story about how a Tesla demonstration made Twain (Sam Clemens) wish he didn't wear white suits.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Nikola Tesla is one of the most fascinating inventors who has ever lived.

I went to the Milwaukee School of Engineering back in the '60s. Their buildings were a rather odd collections of intercity architecture, some of which dated back to Victorian times. The "B" building was the former German Academy dating from the late 1800's and was used for classroom space and the student lounge. One grand hallway featured an oil portrait of Nikola Tesla that was at least 15 feet tall. (It was really a GRAND hallway!). It turns out that in it's early days MSOE only had an electrical engineering program and one of it's patrons was George Westinghouse. Westinghouse was also an early backer of Tesla and saw the benefits of alternating current early on. He fought a major battle with T.A. Edison's direct current and won which set the direction for the electrification of the country. Westinghouse was not an idea man, all of the technology came from Tesla. He could be called the man who invented the twentieth century.

I worked for the school one summer and helped clean an attic in the "B" building. While working up there we found parts for a mammoth Tesla coil in storage since the '20s or '30s. The primary stood about eight feet high and was about ten feet in diameter. The secondary was made in sections that could be stacked up and assembled to produce an astonishing six foot diameter coil, thirty feet tall. This monster had been built by the EE frat to celebrate a school anniversary and was used in a tableau with a hapless volunteer standing on the apex on the secondary, holding aloft a tennis racket that had been wrapped with tin foil streamers. The effect had to have been awesome. No pictures of the actual tableau have survived.

Regards,
GtG

PS Someday I may tell all about the time Tesla's portrait was "borrowed" for a trip down Wisconsin Avenue during the annual St. Patrick's Day festivities! (St. Pat WAS an engineer)

[Al Simmons]

Do you have any legitimate links that discuss this alleged 'test' of the Tesla 'Death Ray'?

I was under the impression that this idea of his never advanced beyond science fiction....

[newcthem]

Before knocking this, do some research. His theories are all based on scientific fact, and sound research.
Probably one of the greatest geniuses in the field of electrical engineering.

Not only electrical engineering.......his Tesla turbine showed great potential, is amazingly simple and efficient. It impressed everyone except Westinghouse who felt it was vastly inferior to their big heavy and in-efficient turbine (the ones still in generation plants today.)

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Probably one of the greatest geniuses in the field of electrical engineering

Tesla Appreciation Society Bump!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

OTOH, maybe it's not a ripoff but a parody.

Probably. The last photo you posted is not of anyone named Angela Biscotti....but is in fact Actress Yancy Butler.

[gondramB]

And I've been told the top one is Alicia Silverstone.

[Final Authority]

I didn't know the Sierra Clubs had any Nukes? Are they siding with the terrorists in head scarves?

Actually, cooking oil is reclaimed and is picked up and recycled by various companies, one is Baker's Commodities, and used for making soaps, and other non edible (by humans) materials.

[manwiththehands]

Great story, Gandalf! Also, Thomas Edison tried to scare potential electric customers away from Tesla's AC to his DC by trying to convince people AC was more "dangerous". Tesla had been providing (much more effective) AC power to Sing Sing prison's electric chair. As we all know Tesla's AC won out in part because of it's better "efficiency".