Talk:Nikola Tesla
Tesla is such a God to conspiracy cranks the world over this would be very fertile ground for us to explore in more depth. tmtoulouse nettle 15:45, 18 September 2008 (EDT)
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[edit] Wireless Transmission of Energy
I wouldn't say that it is an unworkable idea. Maybe impractical for the purposes of making money and therefore never implemented, but it can and does work to at least a certain degree. I have not found any statement saying that the wireless transmission of energy on the scale that he invisioned has been tried and has failed. Of course, that doesn't mean that it hasn't been.--160.36.39.222 (talk) 17:55, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
- your wireless phone does charge somewhat off the broadcast signal. It extends the battery life quite a bit. Hamster (talk) 18:18, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
- Crystal Radios derive all their power from their broadcast signal. However, this is also not what Tesla had in mind; he considered energy (and information) transfer by "Hertzian Waves" as a huge waste of power. --Stilldeciding (talk) 01:31, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
- I was going to say, don't we have this technology on the small scale? Though it doesn't light up entire towns like he envisions, it certainly does exist. Tetronian you're clueless 18:24, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
- Yes, the technology is available, but it's shit. Most of it works by magnetic induction rather than what I think Tesla was thinking about. They can just about charge a phone from a few inches away, although one experiment did manage to power a TV from the other side of the room - although to power something 6 feet away the field was powerful enough to wipe credit cards from 18 feet away. I think there's some better systems that work only in confined spots by having the fields go in phase only in certain areas (avoiding the problem of destroying any electronic equipment in range) but even so, the efficiency is still terrible, about on par with replacing all your gadgets with the efficiency levels of the 60s and worse.
gnostic 18:49, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
- Using electromagnetic induction is not what Tesla had in mind. While his "world system" would be wireless, It would not be conductor-less, because Tesla intended on oscillating the Earth, using it as a conductor to carry the electricity. --Stilldeciding (talk) 01:31, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
- Yes, the technology is available, but it's shit. Most of it works by magnetic induction rather than what I think Tesla was thinking about. They can just about charge a phone from a few inches away, although one experiment did manage to power a TV from the other side of the room - although to power something 6 feet away the field was powerful enough to wipe credit cards from 18 feet away. I think there's some better systems that work only in confined spots by having the fields go in phase only in certain areas (avoiding the problem of destroying any electronic equipment in range) but even so, the efficiency is still terrible, about on par with replacing all your gadgets with the efficiency levels of the 60s and worse.
- I would tend to think that what Tesla was trying to accomplish at Wardenclyffe would have been very, very dangerous. We are talking about broadcasting immense amounts of power, presumably at some RF frequency, and we know that what happens even at medium-wave frequencies is exactly the operating principle of a microwave oven. Antenna technicians have to be extremely careful when working around live transmitters, and depending on what surrounded the tower it's entirely possible it could have turned the entire property and then some into one gigantic zap zone -- go near something groundable, get cooked on the spot. In fact, I think that's a big part of the reason no one has ever done any serious research into the concept of microwave power satellites -- the downlink beam could easily go off focus and set a fire, or cook a bird or small aircraft even when on target. EVDebs (talk) 08:01, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
- Actually, Tesla was planning to use a frequency that was somewhere between 6 and 12 Hertz. He chose this because it is the resonant frequency of the Earth-Ionosphere cavity. Tesla's theory was that if he could produce an artificial standing wave to resonate with this cavity, the Earth would be able to carry economical amounts of power to any grounded, resonant coil. He claimed in his Colorado Springs notes that he was able to detect the standing waves made by lightning strikes that were more than 200 miles away from his laboratory; he took this as vindication. --Stilldeciding (talk) 01:31, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
If anyone is interested, I wrote an essay on this topic. Stilldeciding (talk) 23:17, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
[edit] death ray
what, exactly, is crazy about wanting to have your own death ray? Gmb (talk) 21:15, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
- or a big fat gay bomb? ωεαşεζόίď
Methinks it is a Weasel 22:16, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
- Lol it's not crazy to want your own death ray - your only crazy once you think you've figured out how to make it! Stilldeciding (talk) 21:09, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
- That is exactly what THEY want us to think! Gmb (talk) 17:31, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
- Well I've got one and I'm not crazy. I've got it with me right now. I wear it under my trousers, strapped to my thigh with elastic bands so that enemies can't see that I've got it, and it's about the size of a tablespoon and it looks like a tablespoon and also you can use it as a tablespoon. And sometimes I take it out and point it at people I don't like when they're not looking but it doesn't always work. So anyway you'd better all be very nice to me or I might come after you with it. Not crazy. ωεαşεζόίď
Methinks it is a Weasel 17:41, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
- Well I've got one and I'm not crazy. I've got it with me right now. I wear it under my trousers, strapped to my thigh with elastic bands so that enemies can't see that I've got it, and it's about the size of a tablespoon and it looks like a tablespoon and also you can use it as a tablespoon. And sometimes I take it out and point it at people I don't like when they're not looking but it doesn't always work. So anyway you'd better all be very nice to me or I might come after you with it. Not crazy. ωεαşεζόίď
- That is exactly what THEY want us to think! Gmb (talk) 17:31, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
[edit] The photo
I found the photo that is currently being used is very offensive toward Tesla (and other old men). My proposal is to replace it with a free alternative. --212.200.166.32 (talk) 13:24, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
- You may not be familiar with our snarky point of view. We don't need to flatter the subjects of our articles (alive or dead). It might be worthwhile to have a photo of the younger Tesla added, but I don't think it has to replace the current photo. ωεαşεζόίď
Methinks it is a Weasel 13:39, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
[edit] the world's first hydroelection station built there
wat?
[edit] Teslas ashes to be stolen by the Serbian Orthodox Church
The plan to remove the urn from the Tesla museum in Belgrade and move it to the Temple of Saint Sava was revealed several weeks ago. The plan was to move it in June or July. People, thankfully, started protesting against that, (fb group) and at the moment it seams that the plan is "frozen", which may mean that they gave up but do not want to admit it, OR it can also mean that they are just waiting for the people to forget and then to do a blitz move after which it will be "too late to move him back" or something like that. Oh, the plan was not to move the urn INTO the Temple because cremation is strictly forbidden in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, instead they want to bury the urn BEHIND the Temple in a hidden park under a Tesla statue...-- Pedja (speak up, contributions) 16:05, 15 March 2014 (UTC)