Another Attempt to Distribute Energy the Tesla Way

Magical thinking perhaps? But you know that old definition for insanity, right? Doing the same thing and expecting different results.

Sounds like the next Chernobyl in the making!

What Tesla did not know is that such a power transmission may increase the incidence of brain and intestine cancer in children

Knock yourselves out I say.

Hey, something useful may come out of it (although I am not expecting much such as it actually working as intended). Perhaps we can all finally put this Tesla invention to the test and then finally to bed.

;)

If they get it to work, it'll probably wipe out electronic devices within 50 miles and disrupt communications over a wider area.

It'll make a hellova bug zapper.

It's called FM.

FN Magic! Does it work? Short wave only. If too close, you will be dinner, for some creature. But you will be done according to the FDA approved internal temp.

Drone combat--woohoo!

I love the line an efficient world wide transmission system that would distribute all the clean energy we can use.

As I understand the tower principle, this is only the end distribution method, not the generator. Look at the wording of the title of the post. "Distribute" is mentioned, not "generate". If they truly manage to get a bank of solar cells to provide enough power, then, yes, it is clean. if they just tap the grid then all we have is a nice way to eliminate some unsightly poles and wires, although that is not a terrible thing. It would free up some copper for other industrial uses.

From what I have read,and the best I can remember,Tesla intended to use the Earth's magnetic field as a carrier for the energy,by somehow synchronising it with the natural frequency of the Earth.

I have no idea how he intended to do this,but perhaps the pigeons he talked to have the answers.

He was definitely ecccentric,as a lot of geniuses are.

It is strange that after his death, all of the towers were destroyed,and only a single dome is left in the Smithsonian as a reminder if his efforts,but if we simply look around his legacy is all around us.

",but if we simply look around his legacy is all around us."

Yup, right down to the AC wiring in our walls, and the gigantic electric plants set up off in the boonies. Edison's DC power would have required a coal plant every few blocks to 'boost' the power from the main plant due to line losses. Without Tesla's AC power, we would likely still be reliant on the 'sparky' brushed DC motors, which would have left the airwaves so polluted Marconi's demonstration of Tesla's radio would never have worked. No radio, no TV, no cellphones. Compared to the world we have now, the future Edison would have given us is bleak indeed.

i would dare comment on this thread as soon as i have the calibre to comprehend even a millionth of a percent of what that genius achieved in his short life...truly a Mozart of engineering...

If I am recalling my high energy theoretical physics right a true energy transmitting Tesla coil system works on a different electromagnetic energy transfer principle.

The best analogy I can explain it with is comparing normal radio waves to water waves on a pond. Trying to use the amplitude fluctuations of a small ripples will not and cannot transfer much energy.

Tesla systems work more like a hydrostatic power systems in the effect that the power transfer is more like the flow of water in a river or in a pipe instead of waves on a pond.

Once the transmitter and receiver units are tuned into each other they are highly coupled in such a way that a load change on the receiver is directly felt on the transmitter.

Some years ago I played around with matching pairs of Tesla coils I built myself and to be honest once I had them tuned to each other and the proper down conversion circuit built for the receiver unit I could infact put a load on it and see a power draw increase on the Transmitters input circuits.

I demonstrated a small set of these types of coils to the physics professors at the local college when I was attending and they were able to confirm the load change affecting the transmitter power consumption relationship.

So in my opinion if a true power transmitting Tesla coil and receiver system is built to the designs he originally specified and not to modern radio transmitter receiver designs it should be quite possible to send high power electrical energy wirelessly.

Granted as with his calculations to do it on a global scale there would be at least few tens of gigawatts loss in just keeping the systems operating without a load but above that the overall efficiency would get better as the power transfer levels go up.