[woofie]

[boocoowell]

Recommend to everyone to see the movie “The Prestige”, tons of fun.

Edison as a bad guy; like I said, tons of fun.

[D-fendr]

Tesla is the Father of TinFoil Hat Theory. Lightning farms, rail guns, earth power transmission.. And his files disappeared from his vault after his death.

I love reading about him. One of the most interesting characters ever.

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2004/arch/040927earth-capacitor.htm

Earth: A Self-repairing Capacitor

[kb2614]

:-)

[ME-262]

Tesla’s mind was matched only by his ego and his mouth. It is too bad he had millions of mediocre minds and some bright ones too, lined up to fight his every effort. The man literally oozed technology out of every orifice. Nobody has come close to repeating the level of technological advancement he spit out. He thought the box up! Kudos to him for telling the Nobel prize committee they weren’t qualified to honor the likes of himself. Shame on him for turning down the prize money and leaving so many of his Ideas untested due to lack of funds.

[timer]

Tesla, a true prophet, treated as all prophets are; dying unknown in a NY hotel, the pigeons his only friends. And yet he is talking about the 400,000 V electro-potential gradient between the earth and ionosphere, have you ever thought about what would happen if you discharged that capacitor? Like no LIGHTNING.... Hey, this is the same danger as the space elevator, the tether line discharges the giant spherical capacitor. The entire world’s WEATHER changes. No, even if it’s a resistor moisture(grounding path)will condense on it; plus the debye effect in LEO.

So, Tesla had it right about the 50 V/m electro-potential gradiant but don’t get delusions of grandeur about tapping it for massive amounts of energy, the EPA will collar you pronto.

[Lancey Howard]

Tesla BUMP! Good post.

[Locomotive Breath]

Tesla: Man Out of Time

A good bio

[eeaaggllee11]

bookmarked, Thank-you

[mission9]

Has anybody replicated Tesla’s free energy machines for practical use? The original patents have now expired and should be public domain.

[No.6]

Ping

[jeffers]

From the article, “...the earth has a charge... of 4.5 megawatt hours...”

That’s enough to light ten thousand standard light bulbs for 4.5 hours, or about 0.005 to 0.01 times the output of an average coal, gas or nuclear fired power plant.

In Tesla’s time that probably seemed like a lot of power.

In addition to making one terrible business decision, Tesla lived about 25-50 years too early. Were he able to conduct his experiments, with the knowlege of Einstein, Bohr, Heisenburg and others in hand, the practical results would have been, in my opinion, orders of magnitide greater.

As it is, Tesla’s writings probably contain pointers to advanced phenomena, some of which might be exploitable for useful amounts of cheap energy, but finding and leveraging them is difficult because of Tesla’s pre-standard nomenclature, his secrecy, and his ability to rely on his memory, reducing the quantity of surviving notes.

[matthew fuller]

Thanks for posting this. Tesla is one of the greatest “unappreciated” inventors ever, mainly because of Edison/ GE.

[redgolum]

Childhood hero of mine.

[MattinNJ]

BTTT

[mountainbunny]

Tesla once lived in the city I reside in. It is my understanding that the house he lived in receives visits from people who want a bit of soil, a glimpse of the inside of the house, or to meditate on the lawn - anything to connect them to Tesla.

Very odd.

[21stCenturion]

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[Bender2]

Just discovered that ...in 1926, Tesla commented on the ills of the social subservience of women and the struggle of women toward gender equality, indicated that humanity's future would be run by "Queen Bees." He believed that women would become the dominant sex in the future. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

The man knew about the rise of Her Ankleship!

[the invisib1e hand]

“tesla” is hungarian for “tin foil,” I think.