It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by Hopechest
Pretty amazing man.
I would be interested in hearing the negative side about Tesla however. It seems he is idolized everywhere today but back then he wasn't so it would be great to get the whole story about the man.
I doubt he was without character flaws.
Wardenclyffe Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower Wardenclyffe Tower (1901–1917) also known as the Tesla Tower, was an early ... could not find any more backers, most of the site's activity had to be shut down.
Originally posted by PhoenixOD
I think the idea of a wireless electric grid is just not efficient enough for it to work plus it can cause unwanted ESD that can be dangerous. People used to report a lot of sparks coming from every day objects and even their feet as they walked along the street when Tesler used to fire up his tower. Today this would cause fires and would certainly lead to a lot of deaths on a daily basis. sparks flying around when people are filling up the car with gas for example would be a huge risk, in fact anywhere there is flammable liquid. It would also run the risk of destroying any computers or magnetic storage devices.
Like many conspiracy theories to makes a good story to imagine this was suppressed by evil TPTB. The truth is its not efficient , its not practical and its just to dangerous in this modern age.
Originally posted by PhoenixOD
sparks flying around when people are filling up the car with gas for example would be a huge risk, in fact anywhere there is flammable liquid.
Originally posted by Hopechest
Pretty amazing man.
I would be interested in hearing the negative side about Tesla however. It seems he is idolized everywhere today but back then he wasn't so it would be great to get the whole story about the man.
I doubt he was without character flaws.
Originally posted by PhoenixOD
reply to post by Krazysh0t
In his day Tesler was way a head of his time, maybe 100 years ahead of his time. So here we are nearly 100 years later and science has easily caught up with what he was trying to do and surpassed it. Now scientists look at his work and can see where he was going any of his ideas and understand them fully. We understand all the principals surrounding his work and we can see where he got things right and got things wrong. Using air as a medium of transport would never be very efficient , meaning you would have to put a lot of energy in to get very little out. Far more than using wires. Lots of energy is wasted, the proof in that is the massive sparks that came off anything metal near the tower he created. Its just not cost effective.
Not only that having huge sparks coming of things is very dangerous. Tesler did many amazing things but his wireless electricity just would not have worked out. But that's ok all inventors make mistakes now and then..thats why they do 'experiments'.
Originally posted by lovebeck
Nikola Tesla! One of my favorite people to read about. Definitely years before his time. Such a tragedy how he ended up and where his secrets ended up as well.
There is a couple of good docs about him on Netflix, if they're still on there.