I just watched The Secret of Nikola Tesla, which features Orson Welles as J.P. Morgan, and according to IMDB was released in 1980, but it has the look and feel of a movie made in the 1960’s, and could definitely use a remake.
Although I was aware of Tesla’s discovery of alternating current, remote control, and discoveries that led to the development of radio and television transmission, I never knew about Tesla’s bold vision for free, clean and ubiquitous energy tapped from the Ionosphere, and transmitted via a wireless power grid around the world. 100 years later, we still have combustion automobile engines, and much of the world’s energy is derived from burning coal. How ridiculous. 2006 is the 150th anniversary of Nikola’s birth, btw.
April 2nd, 2007 at 2:42 pm
I agree, the great Nikola Tesla had planned to use electricity which flows freely in the Earth’s Ionosphere and as quoted by him, “We could have clean Energy in endless supplies free for all people just like the air we breathe” sadly people didn’t want to fund it because of their greed, not being able to sell power. Now look at what we have caused, a poluted wasteland and even if we stopped using fossil fuels today the Earth would take a long time to recover to what it was even in Tesla’s time.
I strongly support any research in Ionospheric Energy, with an idea of how it works anyone could mount a tincan with a wire on a window and plug in any device and use the power for free, including recharging Mobile Phones, Laptops, powering household electricals etc.
It is such a shame no one at his time realised the potential he had, if he were here today where we have a better understanding of technology and believe in more options it wouldn’t sound ridiculous to us and he would have changed the way we communicate use power and live.
Imagine a free wireless powersource for the whole planet, every house, business, car, device, machine. Even a powerfull internet distributor the Ionosphere has endless potential. Unfortunately we will never see anything like it in a 100 years time, when we could have had it all.
Nikola Tesla is a true genius and I respect him as one of the greatest contributors to mankind.