Nikola tesla

if it was that easy to create free electricity it would have been done by now..its slightly more complicated than you're letting on

The four people below me are silly and paranoid. speaking as an engineering student, free energy is not possible by any known means. that tower is not for and cannot generate electricity. it is for the wireless transmission of electricity. Which is, in fact completely possible... buuuuuuuuuuut High voltage power lines and transformer stations do the job much more efficiently.

So yeah, Tesla was a genius, but if you think that 'free energy' would be blocked by companies? you're an idiot. If energy was 'free' companies would still sell it for a price, and make 100% profit. as it is most energy companies make small margins since they have to pay for fuel and transportation of said fuel etc.

source: engineering student and common sense.

and you are completely correct in saying the people below you are silly you by far have the most intelligent response to my comment

i don't think he meant free energy in the normal sense of not needing fuel, but literally. meaning people wouldn't have to pay for it

If the energy costs even one cent to make, someone, somewhere, sometime has to pay for it.

when i said free energy i meant it in the way that no paying, not free energy as in unlimited amount of energy. If you consider yourself and engineer then do research on some of the subjects it is your responsibility as an engineer student to show why we are engineers. As i have gone through most of Mr. Tesla's experiments as a way to inspire myself into creating a brighter future for generations to come. sadly the wardenclyffe is no more since it was destroyed.
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Must be a freshman. Even is energy was completely unlimited, which it's not, the facilities to harness it would still cost money, the people who make the generators would still need salaries, and the generators themselves would have to be maintained. which costs money.

There is no such thing as free energy. the closest thing to 'free' energy that private citizens can use is solar panels, and that's not free either. A typical solar panel system costs between six and ten thousand dollars, and can only provide your electricity needs during daylight. Now the average household pays about 200 a month for energy. so installing a solar panel system makes very little sense for most people since a solar panel system would take between 30 and 50 MONTHS to pay for itself.

Energy is not free. it will never be free. If it costs even one cent to make, someone has to pay for it.

Good luck with your engineering studies. You'll learn alot about the real world.

How much do the fuel companies make then?

He had plans on using the rotation of the top soil in relation to layers deep beneath earth's crust as a super conductor which would have been used by the towers to transport essentially free energy to anyone with a copper wire and rod.

By wireless transmission you mean in the form of magnetism right? That would be really dangerous for public health as that high amounts of magnetic radiation would cause cancer among other things.
Right now if you have a high-voltage airline going over your house you should be fine unless you have a family history of certain types of cancer. Just think what it would do if the magnetism was transmitted in high quantities instead of just being transmitted from a current going trough a wire.

Also as a fellow engineering student I confirm everything you said but it should be common sense and not linked to engineering.

you shall see a statement at the beginning of my response it is a flase one i thought you had posted this .....whoops

yesh but you made it sound like it was free im aware that it is in possible to get free energy an im aware of the transfer of electricity through magnet coil thingys, sorry i have no idea what the correct terminology is... you can buy something similar to tesla's machine they charge phones and they are called power mats, and theoretically speaking if and i mean if there was such thing as free energy which there is not (although pulling it from the air waves via antennas is quite amazing if only we could get more then you know .. practically nothing) then while companies would charge for the use of there equipment i could see the customers circumventing the system and buying their own equipment if it suited them , i mean if your electricity needs are very high then investing in said equipment might be worth but the average person would probably never use that much electricity (this is assuming the equipment to generate this electricity is rather expensive) so the average person would probably go to the company with the cheapest free energy and this could start a price war and in the end the electricity would be dirt cheap...now i am no engineering student i am a biology student who knows a little bit about everything...however if my knowledge is here is completely inaccurate please feel free to correct me just you know be nice about it

actually greedy corporations would happily block people from building such machines simply because they wouldn't be able to profit from it and their energy sources would start to become unused, effectively collapsing the economy until equilibrium was found. i have been trying to design similar machines but so far most only recycle kinetic energy and reuse it by converting it into mechanical energy from a pendulum for rotating a free spooling set of thin solid aluminum wheels with magnets on them with a set of coils in the middle to collect the energy.

Greed halts all progress friend.

if you had somehow discovered a way to give out free energy but lacked the funding to do it there would be oil companies and such at your door trying to buy our your product and telling you to keep your mouth shut. They don't want their businesses to go under because someone found a better way to get around.

actually, it IS that easy, but as the saying goes, money makes the world go round.

Really? You think so? You think corporations would let go of the most profitable commodity in existence and make it free and unlimited for everyone?

So how are we going to pay all the people needed to keep everything working

I know... I never implied it should be free, I just said a company won't give up it's profit margin.

my bad mis-read your comment

What jeffthespider said was spot on, but also youtube free energy or one of the zeitgiest movies or even the alex jones channel and there is proof of small portable free energy machines that the FBI enters labs without warrants destroys all the evidence and machinery and then pays off or intimidates the scientists to keep their mouths shut. If that doesn't work than theres always a convenient car accident or something.

the closest thing to free energy we have ever come to is cold fusion and for the most part it has turned out to be a lie...fusion on the other hand will provide cheap energy but the startup costs are enormous

He had plans on using the rotation of the top soil in relation to layers deep beneath earth's crust as a super conductor which would have been used by the towers to transport essentially free energy to anyone with a copper wire and rod.

Also the raids are real, why would the FBI do it numerous times and take research of people doing experiments on machines that don't exist. The content of those labs are public and yet they have been raided. Also the machines in the zeitgeist documentary use multiple dimensions as a way to transport energy from one dimension to another, if it's not true blame the movie not me, just seems more suspicious than it does crazy

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Also created fluorescent light bulbs. All because Edison was a complete dick to Tesla.

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maybe its for the best something like that wasn't created. if it was funded by JP morgan then when tesla died then Morgan's wealthy family probably would have had control over it. then then they could have found a way for it to be regulated. but this time they would basically be able to have a monopoly on the entire power supply of the world and we would be their slaves

the point is you need to be careful with that kind of power. not that we should stop looking for a solution to the energy crisis we really need one

Right, they've had cars that can go 100mpg in europe for over 10 years and at Argonne National Laboratories (10 minutes from my house) they have cars going purely on hydrogen and the only emission is a little bit of water vapor. They would both be exceptionally expensive at first but the impact that it would have on saving our environment is pricelles.

Live in Porsgrunn in Norway, my dad's friends with one of the researchers working on the electrolytic cells that are being used with the hydrogen car project going on a Hydro here, already got a few driving around, set up hydrogen stations so they can travel around 140km in the area if I remember correctly. Really exciting to see it actually being put into effect.

No that is not true,There is energy to be harnessed from the Ionosphere.Tesla found a way to get the HUGE amount of energy from the Ionosphere and convert it with the help of his tower.He could have made energy free for all of us and sustainable for a very very long time.Instead we're fighting wars for fuels that are rapidly draining...such a sad fate,Tesla would've been disappointed.

That's still just pulling energy from one place to another.

Harnessing energy from the Ionosphere is the same as harnessing energy from the Sun in the sense that a lot of energy is in one place and it moves to another.
All of that energy would still need to be stored, maintained and transferred around the world which costs a hell of a lot.

But the tower that Tesla was about to make would make the energy wireless.It wouldn't need to be stored maintained or transferred,the tower was a huge generator of the energy from the Ionosphere,and I don't know how but he knew a way to make it wireless.

Ah yes, I forgot about the whole wireless thing XD
My bad on that one

No problem,we're all here to learn,I still don't know how he managed to create something so amazing and so groundbreaking.He's my favorite Physicist of all time,he was a genius among geniuses..

Assuming of course that we have the capability to build all of the shit he had. Which we don't.

And there we have Zero Point Module.

i didn't realize that you had to make it out of wax

Nope, it breaks the laws of physics. You cannot harness Zero-Point Energy in any thermodynamic form without converting some sort of particle into something with a lower Zero-Point Energy.

Although the anon you are replying to is spouting a metric tonne of bullshit, using the laws of thermodynamics as an argument against a quantum mechanical concept is illogical and does not work.

Matter and energy is created and destroyed constantly at the quantum level, even though as a universal average remains constant.

I'm just saying that we cannot convert quantum energy into thermodynamic energy.

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Yeah. Tesla was actually working on a tower that could provide unlimited and infinite energy to houses, but the guy who was funding it shot down the idea when he found out he couldn't make a profit on it. Good job CEO's.

Actually the tower was for catching radio wavelengths and converting them to energy.

And a thumb because I know now.

I was almost right.

Didn't Tesla work under a contract with Westinghouse, but he was costing them way too much money while the company was struggling, so he tore up the contract himself to avoid making the company go bankrupt? I don't have sauce for this info, but I'm pretty sure I remember hearing this from a History channel show on him.

This was an actual quote by Tesla....

I find that difficult to believe. I haven't been able to find a reliable source for that quote. Unless you know of one.

But either way the quote seems to advocate for energy out of nothing, which has yet to be demonstrated and is not consistent with anything we know about energy.

His story is really sad, he would've revolutionized the way our energy worked, but because companies couldn't profit off it, they didn't adopt it.

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Because financial problems and Edison's constant attempts at hindering him first slowed down his development of alternating current, then stopped him from developing a large scale version of his coil for wireless transfer of electricity, which was how he intended it to be distributed for free.
In the picture you see the Wycliffe Tower, Tesla's attempt at transferring electricity wirelessly across the Atlantic ocean, it was never finished though, as he was forced to sell it to pay off a dept and it was subsequently demolished by the new owner.

Regardless of that, he still holds the record for transfer of wireless energy, as even attempts using lasers and solar panels fall short of what can be transfered across the electric field of a Tesla coil.

So why not expand on the research. With the tech and funding of today, wouldnt it be easier to develope? Especially with the increasing ammount of scientific and engineering grads?

Because Tesla was unique.
In my opinion he was a genius on the scale of Leonardo daVinci and Galileo Galilei, the likes of which are rarely seen more than once every few centuries. Like them he was way ahead of his time, and his understanding of the fields of electronics, electrostatics, electromagnetics, etc. is so remarkable, the rest of us may not be able to fully understand his work for centuries.

Because Tesla overestimated the power of his coils.

Unless, that is, you believe that he succeeded in building a death ray and blew up Tunguska like he claimed. Then he was spot on in his estimate.

He did build a death ray though. He killed a bird with it.

No, I mean he claimed that he had built a death ray capable of firing across the Atlantic and devastating anything he chose. This, and the seizure of his designs after his death, is why people think he blew up Tunguska.

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