Post: #26

(06-25-2012 12:26 PM)Icarus Wrote:  

(06-25-2012 12:16 PM)Andreas Wrote:  I saw Tesla's documentary and i'm wondering when someone is going to create a machine that will give us free electricity. Tesla was about to do it but the rich people at the time wouldn't let him...

There's no such thing as "free electricity". What there may be is a cheaper way of producing electricity, or some efficient way of converting chemical / mechanical energy into electricity. I don't buy the story that Tesla was held back by the rich people: if Tesla had indeed developed such technology, there would have been plenty of people interested in funding. But not all problems have solutions...

One of my favourite bloggers is the Dilbert cartoonist, Scott Adams. Anyway - he has recently become interested in a company that claims to have found a way to generate lots of 'free' electricity from the ions in air.

Scott Adams says it is probably a scam of some sort. But he also feels that if this company has made a genuine breakthrough - it would still feel like a scam. Since scams and breakthroughs look identical in their beginning stages.

So - as an experiment - he has decided to follow closely to see what happens with the company. Even though he is sure it will probably turn out to be a scam.

You can read his posts here. And don't forget to check out his blog regularly - it is one of the best blogs on the net. It turns out that Scott Adams is a really interesting guy who is curious about a whole host of subjects.

http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/making..._from_air/

http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/electr...__updates/

http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/electr..._update_2/

http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/physic..._question/

As you will see from the posts above. Scott is still unsure if the company is a scam or not.

Post: #27

Quote:Wardenclyffe Tower

(1901–1917), also known as the Tesla Tower, was an early experimental wireless transmission station designed and built by Nikola Tesla in Shoreham, New York in 1901-1902. Tesla intended to transmit messages, telephony and even facsimile images across the Atlantic to England and to ships at sea based on his theories of using the Earth to conduct the signals. His decision to scale up the facility and add his ideas of wireless power transmission to better compete with Guglielmo Marconi's radio based telegraph system was met with refusal to fund the changes by the project's primary backer, financier J. P. Morgan. Additional investment could not be found, and the project was abandoned in 1906, never to become operational. In an attempt to satisfy Tesla's debts, the tower was demolished for scrap in 1917 and the property taken in foreclosure in 1922.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower

Post: #28

Short video on the conspiracy theories regarding his unfinished inventions & technological projects including Wardenclyffe Tower: