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The story concerns the invention of "light panels" - devices which turn electrical power directly into light (similar to LEDs, invented in 1962). In the course of their discovery, the inventors also discover that these panels can also be used to derive power from light. In attempting to bring their discovery to market, they encounter the active opposition of the Power Syndicate, a conglomeration of energy-producing companies dedicated to preserving their monopoly on power production. Rather than trying to maintain a patent on their invention, the scientists then publicly release the scientific details of their discovery for a small royalty, allowing anyone to obtain their own power, and thus outwitting the Power Syndicate.
The prevailing misconception of the mechanism involved in the wireless transmission has been responsible for various unwarranted announcements which have misled the public and worked harm. By keeping steadily in mind that the transmission thru the earth is in every respect identical to that thru a straight wire, one will gain a clear understanding of the phenomena and will be able to judge correctly the merits of a new scheme.
Originally posted by hdutton
Did you notice, they left out the part about the 80 HP multi-phase electric motor Tesla had installed in the car?
They also failed to mention that he devised his system using vacuum tubes, which are a rarity to find now days.
With an antennea you could never boost the current to such an impossible level needed to power a car. I don't know how Tesla did it, but I don't think he was transmitting power to be received by an antennea.
Did you know, you can place a mile of thin wire 6 inches above the ground, in a loop and receive a current from the " flow of energy" which surrounds the earth? I do not know how much or how powerful it would be, but this was shown be true by Faraday himself.
If you want to bring about a true revolution in automobile transportation, convience the government to lay a cable within the surface of all major highways. Then have the auto makers install a device on their electric cars which would pickup the magnetic field and transfer the induced current to power the car. At the same time you drive the current would recharge a battery for "off highway" driving.
By including devices to track your usage of this system, you could be billed monthly for this use and never have to stop at a gas station again. This usage fee could easily replace all the taxes now paid for the usage of gas to keep up the roadways and only eliminate the cost of the gas itself. This would also be a tremendous savings on the driving public and leave more disposable income for other things.
I will also be the first to say -- this will never happen.
It was shown to be possible at the 1939 World Fair in New York City and proptly forgotten. Some have tried to revive it but to no avail as yet, and I don't believe TPTB will ever allow it to happen.
Originally posted by ErtaiNaGia
Yeah, this technology is actually already in development at Idaho National Laboratory.
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(NL researcher Steven Novack holds a plastic sheet of nanoantenna arrays)
Originally posted by Phage
Funny, the only reference to this seems to have suddenly appeared on the internet in the past month or so.
I can't find anything about it ever actually occurring.edit on 6/23/2011 by Phage because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Phage
Funny, the only reference to this seems to have suddenly appeared on the internet in the past month or so.
I can't find anything about it ever actually occurring.edit on 6/23/2011 by Phage because: (no reason given)
Are you serious? You've never heard of this Tesla vehicle before? I've read about it countless times in the past few years. Never did know how factual the story was though.
Originally posted by Phage
Funny, the only reference to this seems to have suddenly appeared on the internet in the past month or so.
I can't find anything about it ever actually occurring.edit on 6/23/2011 by Phage because: (no reason given)
In 1931, under the financing of Pierce-Arrow and George Westinghouse, a 1931 Pierce-Arrow was selected to be tested at the factory grounds in Buffalo, N.Y. The standard internal combustion engine was removed and an 80-H.P. 1800 r.p.m electric motor installed to the clutch and transmission. The A.C. motor measured 40 inches long and 30 inches in diameter and the power leads were left standing in the air -no external power source.
At the appointed time, Nikola Tesla arrived from New York City and inspected the Pierce-Arrow automobile. He then went to a local radio store and purchased a handful of tubes, wires and assorted resistors. A box measuring 24 inches long, 12 inches wide and 6 inches high was assembled housing the circuit.
The box was then placed on the front seat and had its wires connected to the air cooled, brushless motor. Two rods 1 /4" in diameter stuck out of the box about 3" in length. Mr. Tesla got into the driver's seat, pushed the two rods in and stated, "We now have power." He put the car into gear and it moved forward.
This vehicle, powered by an A.C. motor, was driven to speeds of 90 m.p.h. and performed better than any internal combustion engine of its day. One week was spent testing the vehicle. Several newspapers in Buffalo reported this test.
When asked where the power came from, Tesla replied, "From the ethers all around us." Several people suggested that Tesla was mad and somehow in league with sinister forces of the universe. He became incensed, removed his mysterious box from the vehicle and returned to his laboratory in New York City.
His secret apparently died with him. It is speculated that Tesla was able to somehow harness the earth's magnetic field that encompasses our planet. And, he somehow was able to draw tremendous amounts of power by cutting these lines of force or causing them to be multiplied together. The exact nature of his device remains a mystery.
www.bibliotecapleyades.net...
CAR RAN ON FREE ENERGY?
Tesla kept a much lower profile regarding another invention. The story— seemingly impossible to document, generations later—is that when he was around sixty-five, Tesla or his helpers pulled the gasoline engine out of a new Pierce-Arrow and stuck in an 80 horsepower alternating current electric motor. But no batteries! Instead, he bought a dozen vacuum tubes, wires and resistors.
Soon he had the parts arranged in a box which sat beside him in the front seat of the car. One account says the mysterious box was two feet long, a foot wide and six inches high, with two rods sticking out of it. From the driver's side, Tesla reached over and pushed the rods in, and the car took off at up to 80 miles per hour. He is reported to have test-driven the loaned Pierce-Arrow for a week. If this story is true, the secret of his power source died with him.
There are clues that indicate he could well have driven a car on "free energy." For example, Tesla wrote to his friend Robert Johnson, editor of Century magazine, that he had invented an electrical generator that didn't need an outside source of power. In the early 1930s, Tesla announced that he had, more than twenty-five years earlier, harnessed cosmic rays and made them operate a moving device.
Trying to discover what he had been talking about, today's researchers comb through his patents, such as "Apparatus for the Utilization of Radiant Energy," U.S. Patent No. 658,957, 1901. The research indicates Tesla was working on his "free energy" generator before he hammered out a major article for Robert Johnson's June 1900 issue of Century, in which he describes sending power wirelessly.
www.bibliotecapleyades.net...
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
That would be interesting to read.
Originally posted by hdutton
By his own statements the car was powered by the energy from the aether.
Can you quote those statements from a reliable source? And was he talking about a real car that he actually built, or just hypothetically?
What's wrong with written sources which can be verified such as the following?
Originally posted by hdutton
After my many visits to this site, I have become aware of the lack of credibility given to anything which cannot be absolutely verified by either an audio or, preferably, a video showing the persons being quoted making the statements first hand.
So I think that would be an example of an acceptable written source, published in the New York Times.
The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable.
-New York Times (5 Jul 1931), Section 2, 1