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Like many of us, I’ve always been fascinated by Tesla. He truly wanted to create free energy for all. Was it all just a dream? Is it actually possible? If so, why hasn’t it been done? I’ll leave the answer to that in the ether for now.
Tesla was bankrolled by J. P. Morgan who was convinced Tesla knew what he was doing. J.P. Morgan wanted wireless communication (radio). Tesla wanted wireless, free energy and continued his research to that end. Eventually J. P. Morgan got tired of bankrolling Tesla and not getting what he wanted. So the whole thing was scrapped.
I know we hear all about some conspiracy afoot, but after reading all I could about it over the years, it seems to me to be more of an conflict of egos. The same was true between Thomas Edison and Tesla. Edison hired Tesla, but Tesla quit after a while due to clashes of ego. Edison wanted something tangible that could be made and sold. Tesla was much more interested in doing research. Research is super for humankind, but it ain’t so great for capitalists who want to invest in a technology in order to profit from it. An inventor with a big ego who wanted to create free wireless energy would be thwarted in that pursuit after investors lost patience. They want to profit, not give away stuff for free.
Tesla first built his transmission device to wow the crowds. It shot man-made “lightning bolts” into the air as shown in the opening image to this diary. But what was the real point? Tesla did it to demonstrate he could definitely send energy across space without wires, however without a receiver for the energy, all he could do was demonstrate half of what he wanted to accomplish. It ended up being just a novelty since his funding was ended before he reached his goal.
Here’s a video of a small Tesla coil a guy made to light some LED lights. What it demonstrates is Tesla’s invention of wireless energy transmission. If we (meaning humankind) wanted to, we could send electricity everywhere without wires. Geez, I wonder who wouldn’t want that to happen (PG&E to name one)? Below that is an image showing the concept of Tesla’s wireless energy transmission and then a demonstration of that follows in the video below that.
I don’t really believe people understood the full ramifications of his device at all. If it had ever been built and completed the world would be shown what it could do. Then there is the sticky situation of how to profit from it because anyone could build their own receiver and get free energy which would be transmitted all around them just like radio waves are today.
If Tesla had been able to complete what he was up to, a magic truth could then be revealed. The thing could actually work in reverse! Tesla’s invention would clearly transmit energy without wires, but that energy would have to be created and then put through his device. If you did it in reverse, however, you could grab energy from the environment and store it. That stored energy could be used directly or it could be transmitted wirelessly once you obtained it. Where is there free energy? The sun makes it of course.
As we all know any time there is a magnetic field it creates an electric field perpendicular to it. And we all know any time there is an electric field it creates a magnetic field perpendicular to it. This is the basis for creating electricity from hydroelectric dams. Giant coils of wire are spun via water pressure within giant magnets which creates an electrical current in the wire coils that then travels through transmission lines.
The energy from sunlight travels through space in the same manner as an electromagnetic wave. That’s how radio waves and television signals work as well. The energy emitted by transmitters travels through space until it’s picked up by a receiver which then changes that sent energy into sound and visual images. Could we come up with a way to capture the energy of the sun when it’s in it’s wave form before it turns into photons of light after it hits an object?
Perhaps.
The center of the Earth is a huge magnet made mostly of iron and magnesium. The Earth’s magnetic field causes the sun’s electromagnetic energy to follow those lines of magnetism. The sun provides free energy. Currently we use solar panels to transform sunlight energy into DC electrical current. Is there a way to do better and ramp it all up? Perhaps there is a way. Check out this article which only briefly talks about a possible way.
www.huffingtonpost.com/…
This is just food for thought currently. What you think about it?
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Strategy meeting to convene for the Mass Moral March on Raleigh.
Saturday, Jan. 30th, 1:00 PM at:
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February 7 (Super Bowl Sunday!) at 2PM (well before the game) in Pittsburg, Kansas. This will be a joint meeting with the Crawford County Democratic Party, who is welcoming us all in — so please come. We’ll go over new poll numbers taken inside of Senate District 13, as well as statewide polling data conducted January 13-15. More info in Chris Reeves’s diary.
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navajo is going to be on vacation in NYC and the NYC Kossacks are gathering for lunch on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016 at Noon at Spitzer's Corner - 101 Rivington Street, cross street Ludlow. Meet in the back room. This venue is wheelchair accessible.
There will be fries.
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Cheers & Jeers Welcoming Dinner Wednesday, July 13, 2016 Time: TBD, early evening, 5-ish or 6-ish Location: TBD, near Convention Center
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Event Reporting
nhox42 organized and reports details about a recent meet-up in Maine along with food pr0n! Cheers and Jeers/NE Kossacks Midwinter Meetup Success!
While visiting Boston, belinda ridgewood invited TrueBlueMajority to her annual Boxing Day holiday party and it became a meet-up of two Kossacks! Yay! In the meantime, an impromptu gathering occurred in NYC consisting of the Saturday Morning Garden Bloggers, Kishik, Missys Brother and Christin. Go NYC!
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