Nikola Tesla: Genius or Madman?, page 2

Originally posted by djohnsto77

Originally posted by obsidian468
These directed bursts of electricity would bounce off the far side of the planet, and return to the coil with a greater charge than it left with. The coil, in turn, would re-amplify this current, and send it back into the planet.
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and also possibly causing a massive power outage on the far side of the planet that he was bouncing the electricity off of.

I find this pretty much impossible. The Earth would dissipate a charge quickly, not allow it to go in a straight path through it. Even if it did, certainly it would have been stopped by the Earth's iron core and not allowed to go through to the other side.

Tesla found a resonant frequency of Earth. As with resonance in radio circuits, you don't need to apply power to the full cycle to obtain the full cycle under resonance. Also resonant circuits can generate higher voltages or currents than pumped into them (but not both - it can not generate more power than applied to it according to present day theory).

Tesla believed that Marconi's radio waves were an inefficient use of power. He believed that air should be used as the"ground" and Earth should be used to transmit the waves. He also said everything we have learned about radio is backwards. I would like to hear from anybody who has experimented with this.

Tesla also believed the US Patent Office was bogus and fed patents to foreign countries to rip off inventors. That is why all of his patents are missing key ingredients. From the 1970's on, most inventors are now believing and seeing this problem with the patent office.

Supposedly, Tesla was a firm believer in Zero Point Energy. This energy goes by many different names, so to be sure everyone understands, it is the energy that "disappears" when 2 radio waves are fed into each other 180 degrees out of phase. It is interesting to note that the 2 wave radio waves continue to consume power but nothing is returned. What happened to the physics law of conservation of energy?

It is believed his Wardenclyffe Tower was about using Zero Point Energy along with the resonant frequency of Earth. He believed you and me would be able to put a pole in the ground and tap as much energy as we needed to power our homes. And this electricity (being of a higher frequency than present day power) would not harm anything just like radio waves harm nothing [his theory not mine].