Russian Physicists Launch Campaign to Rebuild Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower

[happyliza]

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Russian Physicists Launch Campaign to Rebuild Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower and Power the World
by Beverley Mitchell, 06/15/14
filed under: clean tech, energy efficiency, News



“Tesla was right and we are ready to prove it!” So say the two Russian physicists who have just launched an Indiegogo campaign to rebuild Nikola Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower in Fall, 2014. Tesla believed that the tower could transmit power wirelessly but this was never definitively proven in his lifetime. If he was right, and after extensive study the team are convinced he was, the project could provide an efficient, worldwide energy transmission system that would distribute all the clean energy we can use.


That Tesla was a genius is undisputed even by his detractors, but more than 70 years after his death, he remains a polarizing figure. Leonid Plekhanov and Sergey Plekhanov have spent the last five years studying and modeling Tesla’s notes and patents for the tower and they are certain the project is viable with the use of modern materials and technology. As their Indiegogo page notes: “Nikola Tesla had left us a very detailed description of the design of his Magnifying Transmitter System and the physical principles of its operation. We are a group of modern-day physicists, trained in many areas related to the operation of his Worldwide Energy System. We’ve conducted a thorough scientific expertise of his works and came to the conclusion that Tesla was on the right track.”

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The principle behind the current design is that we already have an unlimited source for all the energy we could need – the sun. A 100,000 square kilometer solar array in a nice, sunny desert somewhere could provide for all our global power needs. The problem lies in distributing that power, as current systems leak so much energy. Tesla’s proposed network of towers were designed to make use of the Earth’s own inherent conductivity, transmitting energy through the ground and the ionosphere with very little wastage. A detailed description of how a tower works can be found here.

While Tesla’s original tower on Long Island weighed in at 60 tons, the prototype the Plekhanovs plan to build will only weigh two tons due to advances in materials. Its Tesla coil will be about 20 meters long. The team are hoping to raise $800,000 to build their prototype via the Indiegogo campaign, which finishes up on July 25, 2014. They successfully raised $40,000 via crowdfunding last year for research and design work on the power source. A project timeline and budget are provided, and in the spirit of Tesla’s magnanimity, they pledge to make their results freely available online once the tower has been put into operation.

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Via Treehugger

Photos by Magnus Manske and Yelm via Wikimedia Commons; and Planetary Energy Transmitter on Indiegogo

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[aimarok]

Re: Russian Physicists Launch Campaign to Rebuild Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower and P

Here is a detailed explanation of working principle of Tesla tower _http://globalenergytransmission.com/index.php/en/latest-news/27-examining-working-principle-of-tesla-tower. It's kinda technical. Since Tesla tower doesn't imply any access control system this idea won't get much funds. STO technology just doesn't fit in STS world.

 

[trendsetter37]

A 100,000 square kilometer solar array in a nice, sunny desert somewhere could provide for all our global power needs. The problem lies in distributing that power, as current systems leak so much energy. Tesla’s proposed network of towers were designed to make use of the Earth’s own inherent conductivity, transmitting energy through the ground and the ionosphere with very little wastage. A detailed description of how a tower works can be found here.

I have a slight issue with this. I am not sure where these scientist studied tesla's patents and experiments. But he wasn't transmitting electricity from solar panels. He was generating (collecting rather) and transmitting it with his tower. I was excited about this article until they explained that solar panels could do the job of drawing in the electricity and the tower would transmit. That is REALLY expensive and was not the point of the wardenclyffe tower at all. OSIT.

I could be way wrong but they only understood half of what Tesla was doing if they are proposing a solar panel array in conjunction with the W. Tower. Maybe an Electrical engineer could chime in?

 

[ROEL]

My first wish is that they succeed. My second wish is that if they do, they don't end up in a ditch with an oil-dripping knife stuck in their backs. STS never sleeps...

 

[aimarok]

I have a slight issue with this. I am not sure where these scientist studied tesla's patents and experiments. But he wasn't transmitting electricity from solar panels. He was generating (collecting rather) and transmitting it with his tower. I was excited about this article until they explained that solar panels could do the job of drawing in the electricity and the tower would transmit. That is REALLY expensive and was not the point of the wardenclyffe tower at all. OSIT.

I could be way wrong but they only understood half of what Tesla was doing if they are proposing a solar panel array in conjunction with the W. Tower. Maybe an Electrical engineer could chime in?

Look at their site _http://globalenergytransmission.com for a detailed explanation. I watched their presentation to professors in a Moscow university on youtube. In fact on of professors there was their mentor. They really know what they're doing and there is no magic involved. Using Earth as a conductor and with a help of ionosphere the tower creates standing waves using external power source. Another tower can draw energy from these waves without breaking resonance. Solar panels were used just as an example of possible application. Btw Tesla described almost everything about his tower in his patents, where these guys drew the ideas. There is nothing about collection or generation of energy so it might be useful to check your sources.

 

[rymw]

I believe the Russians aim to achieve two things: clean energy devoid of fossil fuel dependence and hence the application of a solar array and the free distribution of electricity via Tesla's W. Towers. Best idea I've come across and yes I wish them every bit of luck or 'universal protection' they can get if the same fate Tesla suffered under the hands of JP Morgan and the nazis were not to be repeated. Amen...

 

[Mikey]

A 100,000 square kilometer solar array in a nice, sunny desert somewhere could provide for all our global power needs. The problem lies in distributing that power, as current systems leak so much energy. Tesla’s proposed network of towers were designed to make use of the Earth’s own inherent conductivity, transmitting energy through the ground and the ionosphere with very little wastage. A detailed description of how a tower works can be found here.

I have a slight issue with this. I am not sure where these scientist studied tesla's patents and experiments. But he wasn't transmitting electricity from solar panels. He was generating (collecting rather) and transmitting it with his tower. I was excited about this article until they explained that solar panels could do the job of drawing in the electricity and the tower would transmit. That is REALLY expensive and was not the point of the wardenclyffe tower at all. OSIT.

Well, global wireless transmission of energy is already something impressive, solar panels or otherwise! I'm sure it would revolutionize our planet, and it could be used for good. Think of water pumps in the desert which could be powered, or transmission of solar power from the deserts into higher latitudes. I'm no expert in Tesla technology (I am an electrical engineer though), but could you give us a reference to your claim that it was not the point of the tower?

In my opinion, 800k is VERY cheap even if it is just a working prototype. For comparison, just look at this kickstarter project: They raised 6 Million Dollars out of 800k requested for a better mp3 player: _https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1003614822/ponomusic-where-your-soul-rediscovers-music?ref=discovery

Bring on the comets!

 

[Yozilla]

I believe the Russians aim to achieve two things: clean energy devoid of fossil fuel dependence and hence the application of a solar array and the free distribution of electricity via Tesla's W. Towers. Best idea I've come across and yes I wish them every bit of luck or 'universal protection' they can get if the same fate Tesla suffered under the hands of JP Morgan and the nazis were not to be repeated. Amen...

Well why bother then to build South Stream anyway? Tesla's tower should mean FREE energy to all humanity - and that would not be in Rosneft&co best interests - they would go broke then... So maybe we could attach a little "pr alert" in an attempt to score some points for Russia on international political scene... and here is one interesting article about some "techemoth" Marx/"Tesla tower already functional for decade, near Moscow, that was/is producing lightning bolts and other one supposed to produce EMPes

_http://rt.com/news/170704-tesla-tower-lightning-russia/

The facility is absolutely unique; nothing like it exists anywhere in the world, primarily because of its outstanding charge capacity. At its peak operating capacity the giant Marx generator, when lightning is discharged onto an isolated platform, has power equal to all power generation facilities in Russia – including thermoelectric, hydroelectric, nuclear, solar, and wind power stations combined. But only for about 100 microseconds, Rossiya-1 TV reported.

 

[A Jay]

A 100,000 square kilometer solar array in a nice, sunny desert somewhere could provide for all our global power needs. The problem lies in distributing that power, as current systems leak so much energy. Tesla’s proposed network of towers were designed to make use of the Earth’s own inherent conductivity, transmitting energy through the ground and the ionosphere with very little wastage. A detailed description of how a tower works can be found here.

I have a slight issue with this. I am not sure where these scientist studied tesla's patents and experiments. But he wasn't transmitting electricity from solar panels. He was generating (collecting rather) and transmitting it with his tower. I was excited about this article until they explained that solar panels could do the job of drawing in the electricity and the tower would transmit. That is REALLY expensive and was not the point of the wardenclyffe tower at all. OSIT.

Well, global wireless transmission of energy is already something impressive, solar panels or otherwise! I'm sure it would revolutionize our planet, and it could be used for good. Think of water pumps in the desert which could be powered, or transmission of solar power from the deserts into higher latitudes. I'm no expert in Tesla technology (I am an electrical engineer though), but could you give us a reference to your claim that it was not the point of the tower?

In my opinion, 800k is VERY cheap even if it is just a working prototype. For comparison, just look at this kickstarter project: They raised 6 Million Dollars out of 800k requested for a better mp3 player: _https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1003614822/ponomusic-where-your-soul-rediscovers-music?ref=discovery

Bring on the comets!

In all the references to the Wardenclyffe tower that I have ever come across, I've never read anything about it being a transmitter of solar energy either. So I too was very curious when they mentioned using solar panels to collect the energy that their prototype is supposed to transmit. One step at a time perhaps?

 

[David]

Would it modulate the earths frequency... like a beacon maybe... or would it be like the alleged Philadelphia experiment... but the energy drawn off to places where spooky things happened - places with a specific geometry that enabled doors to open... port to port.

 

[trendsetter37]

Well, global wireless transmission of energy is already something impressive, solar panels or otherwise! I'm sure it would revolutionize our planet, and it could be used for good. Think of water pumps in the desert which could be powered, or transmission of solar power from the deserts into higher latitudes. I'm no expert in Tesla technology (I am an electrical engineer though), but could you give us a reference to your claim that it was not the point of the tower?

I agree. And it certainly would be a step in the right direction in my opinion. I'll make another post with some of the information over the past year that brings in quotes from the C's that sound exactly like some of the stuff I have been reading from late 19th century scientist. Tesla included. I have an archive of his patents that I will have to go through so that I can upload them with coherent quotes from the sessions and other reading material in order to add to the context of my earlier claim. I apologize for not doing that earlier and without giving more details as that is not constructive.

In short though it looks like Tesla's inventions were chronological. In that some inventions laid the groundwork for later ones. With the premise being that yes each one could be used for an individual purpose but that also the theory behind one could be applied to another in order to bring about a different effect more significant than any one of his inventions operating separately.

For example.

Here is a patent for his Radiant energy antenna.

I think the key was to ground a capacitor. It was a simple "solar panel" without the headache of manufacturing the silicon derived photovoltaic cells. Instead he used a conductive sheet insulated by mica. A material that is plentiful and highly insulating. He was simply drawing the charge from what I think was the ionosphere and provided said charge with an efficient way to go to "ground". He called it the cosmic ray antenna because it worked in the day as well as night. Well if the ionosphere is continuously charged by the sun, stars, and gamma ray burst then I could see why this would be so.

In Pierre's book the concept of the ionosphere charge relative to the the charge of the Earth was very apt! Storms and other planetary actions seem to be related to helping that charge get to the center of the earth.

Or center of a sphere!

A: Gravity center of planet is also "window" to all other density levels and dimensional planes of existence, which is why electrically charged atoms "ground" in order to pass on to other planes through gravity binder.

Q: Getting back to my question of the passing of electrons along a circuit: what force is it that initiates the passing of one electron to another atom that manifests as electricity?

A: Electrical energy is merely "tapped," collected, trapped, then channeled.

Capacitors. They are two plates separated by a dielectric material. If you have an electrical breakdown of the dielectric current will flow from one plate to the other until the charge separation has been depleted. What happens if charge to one of the plates is connected to an outside source that is always on? Current will continuously flow from that plate, through the area of the dielectric that is weak continuously to the other plate.

So looking at the Earth/Ionosphere capacitor example; The ionosphere is continuously getting charged from the sun and other cosmic rays. Ok so how would one breakdown the dielectric of the atmosphere between the ionosphere and the Earth's surface? Well high voltage pulses could do that by creating an electrically conductive plasma. This happens whether it is seen or unseen in regards to different discharge modes. Once the plasma is generated initially it will continue to travel or grow towards the ionosphere until it makes a connection. Once connected the electric charge from the ionosphere has a much easier pathway to the ground compared to the usual way of storms, tornadoes, and other weather patterns (speaking of which some books claim that this type of energy consumption would prevent disastrous storms. Given the context in Pierre and Laura's book I could see how this would make sense on one level). IF they were emanating from a grounded tower similar to Tesla's. This is also where he could disconnect the circuit he used to "power" the tower because once the connection is made the current flows from the ionosphere. There are accounts of Tesla describing that the tower ran on its own after it was jump started. Once you start that flow you have created a plasma channel connecting the ionosphere directly to the Earth. This would be the power that one would tap and transmit through to other "receivers" that are tuned to the same exact frequencies of the main transmitters.

There is a bit more to this, but I will follow-up with a post detailing my thoughts soon. What do you guys think thus far?

P.S. I also think the same scenario could be induced using an electrolaser or a LIPC (Laser induced plasma channel) rather than a tower. But this just came to me as I was typing the above. Fire conducts electricity being somewhat in a plasma state. This is fun to test with candles! But if the aim is to directly tap the ionosphere I think A high power laser beam that is grounded in a similar fashion as the Wardenclyffe tower could also possibly cut down on cost

An electrolaser is a type of electroshock weapon which is also a directed-energy weapon. It uses lasers to form an electrically conductive laser-induced plasma channel (LIPC). A fraction of a second later, a powerful electric current is sent down this plasma channel and delivered to the target, thus functioning overall as a large-scale, high energy, long-distance version of the Taser electroshock gun.

So in other words instead of your 'target' being something or someone else ( in the form of a weapon), one could use it to connect to the ionosphere right?

Look at their site _http://globalenergytransmission.com for a detailed explanation. I watched their presentation to professors in a Moscow university on youtube. In fact on of professors there was their mentor. They really know what they're doing and there is no magic involved. Using Earth as a conductor and with a help of ionosphere the tower creates standing waves using external power source. Another tower can draw energy from these waves without breaking resonance. Solar panels were used just as an example of possible application. Btw Tesla described almost everything about his tower in his patents, where these guys drew the ideas. There is nothing about collection or generation of energy so it might be useful to check your sources.

I'm not quite sure I understand what you are saying here as I didn't say it was magic. But to clarify what's above, I do not think he gave the full implications of what he was doing in any single patent. Rather keeping the scope of each invention very small, all the while knowing, seemingly, that some of his patents utilized together whether literally or conceptually would give rise to the device he really wanted to make but knew that with the current PTB it wouldn't happen. To do otherwise would have been foolish. OSIT

The cosmic ray antenna was cited to "collect" electricity and was not externally powered. This was patented in 1901 but the tower patent came through in 1914. But if you merge the two a bit what do you get? So when you said patents plural I was assuming you were referring to all of his patent and not only the ones that are mentioned by the scientist above. Was this not the case?

So yes the tower would be an excellent transmitter/receiver using the ground. But I am not certain that is the only thing it is used for.

Attached are an archive of some of his patents if anyone is curious. Well there are probably over 150 in there and the zip is slightly larger than the attachment limit so I will attach the pertinent ones as of now, but I can split the remaining zip file with all of his patents in there if need be.

 

[trendsetter37]

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Another analogy that just came to mind was a funnel filled with water. Or we could think of a pool of water with a plug at the bottom. The vast amount of water represents energy with no place to go (analogous with the ionosphere's charge). Well what happens if you pull the plug at the bottom of a pool? It will begin to flow because that hole at the bottom has given it a place to flow. That static potential energy is now flowing kinetic energy. It will start slow and then speed up eventually forming a spiral down the drain which is its version of going to ground or the center of the Earth. The spiral flow is interesting for other reasons as well.

But how do we tap the energy from that flow; hydroelectric dams are one example where a propeller turbine is made to spin by the flow of water. In short, the wardenclyffe tower would be the plug and an electromagnetically coil coupled with the tower's primary coil at the bottom of the tower is the "turbine" that produces usable electricity and also what I think Tesla used to "tap" the energy from the flow of electricity originating from the ionosphere and flowing to "ground". In effect I think the tesla coil, as it is currently advertised and promulgated, is working in reverse of what Tesla intended. Much focus is turned towards how it can transmit instead of the conduit it would create to pull down or receive.