Letterhead of Nikola Tesla, ca. 1900AD

you have a valid point there

Tree Man, if you only knew how right you are. We are literally DROWNING IN POWER => http://current.com/technology/92858210_ocean-energy-fishing-8-tons-per-square-in...

This isn't the video, but cool stuff on the the PBS website about the video and Tesla.

http://www.pbs.org/tesla/

You can view the entire video online or download it to your computer and watch it later. Click on the first video display on the list at the link.

There will be short commercial before the video starts.

http://www.veoh.com/collection/filesharerdocumentaries/watch/v6393755hD55W89j

soo uneducated

I first heard of him on the history channel. Then I researched him. He became an American citizen, so your wrong.

Not as illiterate as you. Have you been asked by them Serbs to read & write their chirilik. I have. He was a US citizen. What does that prove? That doesn't make him better than anybody. Why even dignify your crap?

Floyd Sweet -videos on YouTube- already did get energy out of thin air, except it wasn't "just" energy in the air as if naturally-occurring => it was Cosmic Energy that comes here from every direction, from every star in the Cosmos.

Floyd Sweet's device -the VTA for Vacuum Triode Amplifier- was operating in 1987. It's my belief he constructed a "honey pot" that attracted cosmic radiation energies more than Planet Earth attracted it. His device did not stop or hinder the energies in any way. They passed through the circuitry for a magnetic induction energy (thrown off energy his device picked it up like an antenna for us all to have and use).

Since 1987 y'all. 1987.

The use of honey pots today is used by antivirus companies to trap and hold new computer viruses, spyware, trojans and malware to study them and develop fixes. Mr. Sweet was ahead of his time by attracting and trapping energy from the Cosmos as it passes through our air toward the ground, which is what all energy does => electricity always seeks the ground.

We have only known that for over a hundred YEARS.
We are being kept Poor.... over & over & over again.

Poor of Energy. Poor of fuel-less space travel. Dirt Poor.

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=Floyd+Sweet+VTA+vacuu...

Great point and well said => "richer, in a different way".

very interesting,, the idea of using magnets sounds good to me, a magnet never wears out,,, right?

+^d . If it would work, it would change the world,....but I don't think it would kill capitalism, and investments would be made.

Those are definitely NOT examples of perpetual motion! All those planets and moons are in slowly degrading orbits- It looks like a perpetual circle, but it's actually a very tight spiral that leads to the centre: in the case of planets that's the sun. The energy source is gravity and that works by pulling in the object.
Once it reaches the bottom of the well it's all over.

There is electricity in the atmosphere, we see it as lightning all the time, but harnessing lighting is very, very difficult. So difficult that it has become a proverb used to describe difficult and dangerous tasks. ;)

I would agree with your statement. However, one may say that it almost might as well be perpetual. Given the lifespan of human beings, the energy obtained from such sources may be considered almost limitless, or highly efficient. It's already being produced, out there, we might as well harness it. (same goes for the sun's MASSIVE amount of energy). Anyway, I think that's what mitekillem was essentially saying.

That's not quite how magnets work...
Anyway, moving magnets in a magnetic field converts your OWN mechanical energy (from doing the moving) into an electric charge. That's how electrical generators work.It's obviously fairly inefficient because you lose energy in the conversion.

BUT things like wind and hydro electric generators passively generate using that method, so it doesn't matter so much if energy is lost in those conversions since you don't need that wind or water energy for anything else and it doesn't really cost anything.

Please do not confuse perpetual motion machines with over unity devices or free energy delivery systems. They are completely different. Yes, perpetual machines are a complete myth, but there are many devices capable of producing over unity energy (more output than input) because they take the environment into account, and realize that most systems truly are not closed. These devices come in several different makes. Also, the cosmic vacuum, has been experimentally demonstrated through the Casimir effect, and several patents have been taken out for devices claiming to draw out such energy. These types of devices might arguably be the energy source of the future.

Check out Tom Bearden website. He has produced several overy unity devices, and is now just workig on raising efficiency and overall performance (ie his MEG machines). http://www.cheniere.org/

Also, check out the work of our centuries mathematical genius, Marko Rodin, designer of the Rodin coil. This guy is as close as you can come to Tesla today. http://markorodin.com/1.5/

No, he was using those as examples of the reality of perpetual motion (as a technology we're discouraged from pursuing), which was incorrect. Perpetual motion means that energy is never lost in the action, like a perpetually swinging pendulum that always moves the exact same amount each time.

The Sun IS a source of energy, gravity is also a source of energy, but those are both widely regarded and well understood. None of that is hidden or marginalized knowledge.

Thanks for the info

Thank you. was interesting. I've always been interested in Tesla. He never received credit for his genius..

Since the sun is slowly dying (losing Mass) any chance of the planets falling into it due to orbital degradation are negated. You're even more correct than you knew!

Although oops, there is a possibility the sun is eating dark matter around the clock => which means we're all gonna die probably next year ooh 2012. Yep, the Mayans, can't beat em => may as well back them up.

News Flash Members of Current posting community!

The Mayans also calculated sun gravity would grow stronger.

Made your LIFE eh? Then get ready for your SECOND LIFE => Tesla's fuel-less flying machine used a lightning drive engine. Obviously you don't need it. You're already flying! hahaha

Nicely said, NNB. 2nded.

So, Current, are you just up to date or are you also: I = E / Z ?

The US government continues with the Tesla research up in Alaska in a program called: HAARP.

We need more like him. Science is important in our education system.

Sad to see a man like Tesla made fun of. He was a genius.

simplynonna sez;) Actually, you can easily build your own Tesla coil;) Look it up and have fun!;)

I had two giant rectangular boxes stuffed with Superman and everybody else original comic books and annuals, gave them to some relatives who visited for Thanksgiving to take home to my cousins. Mom said they probably stopped at a dumpster and got rid of em => too much weight to pull Christiansburg Mountain (460, before I-81).

I know your pain. Would've been nice they had refused and explained WHY but gosh amighty, why would anybody take time to COMMUNICATE? Why would a relative take time to help educate their sister's child for, or help them be rich as sin 10-20-30 years later?

That would break the Failure Mold all to pieces! We might've raised ourselves up high enough to peek over the walls of the ditch.

simplynonna sez-You might be interested in knowing Marconi s' transmission was from Cape Cod, MA because that was where it was closest (and best) to Europe..not until the 80's did they create a monument of sorts in Cape Cod....;)

Sorry NetNewsBuzz but you have a factual error about Cape Cod. It may have been the best location but it is far from the closest to "Europe"

First. Define Europe. From the east coast, the closest European nation-state would be Iceland, then Ireland, then Spain then Portugal. Denmark administers Greenland so this would be the closest European land mass. For all of these, a location in northern Maine would be the closest and it would still be so if England or France were the target location.

From the west coast, as well all known from the nuggets of wisdom of Sarah Palin [you can see Russia from my house], Alaska is closest to Russia -- very much a part of Europe.

To see this accurately, you need a global not a map. Remember we are talking about a direct path not a travel route. All maps have distortion because they are two dimensional representations of a three dimensional object. It is mathematically impossible to do that without distortion in size, shape, distance and/or direction - mathematically impossible.

All you need is a global [not perfect either but more accurate than any map] and some string to see the folly in such a claim.

I am sure it is not your error. You are probably just repeating the "view" from Cape Cod but it is not geographically sound. More evidence that Americans in general [and not necessarily you] are geographically illiterate.

Note: Anyone can put up a marker signifying just about any claim. See "Lies Across America by James W. Loewen

And there was an article a few days ago on Current showing a big hole in the Moon. It rather looks like somebody succeeded in developing Tesla's weapon. It may also go toward explaining why the Moon orbital distance expands one inch per year from Earth. Someone down here pounded the Moon.

Tesla's flying machine used a lightning drive.
Cellphone towers are Tesla's towers [sort of]?

House current should be all DC. Edison was right. Tesla's AC is best for getting it to the electric house meters but then it should be converted to DC. AC generates too much energy into the air, contributes to cancers and weakens the body Immune System. Look how HAPPY people become in an RV that uses direct current appliances for proof.

Earth energy travels up to clouds to make lightning from clouds possible. Tesla destroying plane engines may have somehow been helping the earth energy reach the clouds easier by being attracted to plane engines in excess of cloud attraction.

There's a LOT we are not being told, because we are worker ants, the peons. Star travel is already being used in some capacity. All we get are movies. They get the cream. And they are getting ready to cream us. Our usefulness has run its course.

p.s. Don't forget to mark down my post.

Are you implying that the DC motor doesn't work?

the DC motor wasn't as good as the AC..Westinghouse and Edison tried to scare people away from AC current by building an electric chair and took it around and killed animals in it to show how dangerous AC current was.. they failed as Edison could not get enough of his DC generators to work to keep up with demand. Westinghouse later gave in and sided with AC current to power NY city and many other East cost cities.

Tesla and Edison butted heads over many inventions and Tesla thought Edison was an idiot for giving into Westinghouse in making light bulbs that burn out when the original didn't and would have give us better life time .. AS it is LED Bulbs work 100% better then both normal bulbs and CFL..

Tesla was a great man ..
CC

simplynonna sez;)Actually Edison was a thief who stole everyones ideas and claimed them as his own. Tesla even worked for him at one time.When Tesla was doing experiments with Westinghouse backing at Niagara Falls, good old Edison was busy electrocuting dogs to dissuade people from going AC..I STRONGLY suggest you read Margaret Cheneys' book-it's a real eye opener!;)

simplynonna sez;) Correction-that's the electric induction motor! ;)

+^d

What?!? NO! Jesus...it depends on the applications and operational requirements when selecting a motor or generator. The blanket statement "the DC motor wasn't as good as the AC" makes no sense. Good at what? Are we talking power? Internal resistance? Manufacturing and maintenance costs?

How do you think batteries work? I mean pretty much depending on the application, AC cannot be utilized. And similarly, in other applications, AC is preferable.

No. The DC motor does work but it is direct current and it cannot be applied to most things.. I meant only that Tesla did not and does not receive all the credit he should for the AC work he produced.

Thank you. Good post.

Thank you.

Thank you. Already corrected.

Really??? A DC Motor runs on Direct Current?!? Wow...who would have thunk it!

Anything that runs on a battery is direct current. You can't have an alternating current battery, So your cell phone, lap top, car battery, portable power tools, cameras, and so on and so on all run on direct current.

But onto DC motors...the best example I can think of for a massive DC motor system is basically a submarine (specifically diesel subs). They run solely on a DC power system when not running their diesel engines. You could not use alternating current in that situation because again, AC cannot use a battery power supply.

http://AC.cu

Thank you for informing me, but I already knew any thing that uses a battery runs on DC.but there are also batteries that are AC.. The world runs basically on AC. But back to the only point I was making,Tesla was not given the credit for AC.current.

good call ! +^d

Tesla invented a battery driven car.. It was never approved. Ford had already invented the engine. He became partners with Rockefeller who was in the oil business. We wouldn't have needed to worry about oil if they had listened to Tesla.

simplynonna sez;)-he WAS nurtured by Westinghouse!Then something happened...;)

Could be,....very well could be. +^d

simplynonna sez;)-that's allways the way of history books....remember they're not written by the people,they're written (in most cases),in order to further your own agenda. A perfect example is TX trying to rewrite textbooks NOW! Thank a teacher for inspiring you!;)

simplynonna sez;)-I believe there is genius in each of us and we just need to let it shine through-look at "Earthshine" lyrics by RUSH ;)

A great post. Gets away from depressing politics.

Thank you. I'm not fat,but could use some muscle.

I found the very best protein supplement made from grass fed beef from Dr. Sears in Florida available online. But there's some other products recently out too that have more a muscle-building to them. I wanted to make certain that losing weight was LOSING FAT. I'm practically watching my waistline go down now.

I pinch less inches by the day. I kind of like watching biceps get larger also. I'm walking better and fat is just peeling off the thighs and oops.

The really GREAT THING is it makes me want to POST MORE!!!

There's a relatively unknown product from ProHealth in CA called Utra ATP+ Double Strength that seems to be helping give me more energy and cell energy is needed to build muscle. I got that and a bottle of BioSalts for a very low price. Malic Acid makes the magnesium work better.

There's a Fish Oil from K-Mart that greatly increases muscle too, 1200 mg with Omega 3 & 6. That plus olive oil, wheat germ oil and coconut oil all contain CLA that has been taken out of the American diet since margarine was introduced back in 1960's. It turns out the conjugated linoleic acids are NEEDED to build muscle, so unless you get some of them won't any muscle-building product work very well.

Only thing tho, if you have peanut butter at the same time taking those oils they combine into a Cure for Hemophilia and will make your blood so thick it can't hardly make it through your throbbing kidneys. I went about a year like that hahaha, didn't know what it was til I read about the scientists discovered what it does => it forms a "chemical spiderweb" in the blood.

I must have Superman's kidneys. Really, when the throbbing is coming through your navel it's time to try something different....