Are Earth's Natural Vibrations a Viable Energy Source?

[Doc]

I have done a little reading on Tesla and of course it isn't the same as knowing the man which none of us can say we have. It seems though, as if he was always onto something but made more out of it than which it really was. I remember reading someone quote him of saying that there is great power in an oscillator/resonance. Well, that is a crock of bull in my opinion. In electronics, resonant circuits seem to pass a fair amount of power with seemingly very little coupling, but it is insane to say that there is some kind of power gain in a resonant circuit or device which is what has been said he believed.

If he was trying to induce current via mechanically vibrating objects, what was he, nuts? What is wrong with a rotary generator? You get the same result of magnetic lines cutting and all that BS with no vibration. Un-needed vibrations in mechanical systems do several things, one which is heat the metal and cause power loss. In general I would say that his experiments are quite interesting and some have actually turned productive for the modern world. If Edison would have had his way I don't think it would have been long lived. Sooner or later (probably sooner) they would have realized that in order to transport power long distances AC would be required. It's not that hard to figure out. It wasn't that hard to figure out at the time. In Edisons system, lights were dim at the end of the long lines because of the loss and since it was DC they couldn't use step up transformers for the long haul. Basically the guy had a resonance fetish. I certainly wouldn't say that he was some kind of electrical god or genius. I WOULD say however, that he THOUGHT that he was.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Tesla, in my opinion, has been
gaining popularity the past 20
years or so as a kind of anti-dote
to over-veneration of Edison.
AC is not Tesla's only claim to
fame, though. He is the first to
invent a working remote control
device, and let's not forget his
other ubiquitous contribution to
every day life: the induction
motor.
These things are not as flashy
and mind bending as motion pictures, recorded sound, and in-
candescent lighting, therefore
Edison has always been THE inven-
tor.
If you like this sort of thing
it's refreshing, when you get
tired of one, to jump to reading
about the other. They both, really
had very high opinions of them-
selves.
To say that Tesla was overly
concerned with the concept of
resonance is almost certainly
true because, as a sufferer of
severe obsessive-compulsive dis-
order, he would tend to be overly
concerned with anything that cros-
sed his mind.
Apparently he was fond of giving
long interviews to the newspapers
and phrasing things in the most
grandiose possible ways. People
hear rumors about an earthquake
machine, a ray gun, free energy.
You can trace all this back to
things he actually did, wanted to
do, and said, but it's never as
it sounded in the rumor.
He remains, though, a very cool
inventor.

 

[JAGGED]

Originally posted by zoobyshoe
Sheldon,
He ran into a great deal of
trouble while designing it be-
cause it is essentially a high
speed reciprocating device. Some
of the early models shook themselves apart. His goal was
to use them to induce high fre-
quency A.C. mechanically. At
some point he discoverd he could
make various objects around his
lab vibrate by tuning the fre-
quency of the oscillator to the
resonant frequency of the object.

Something possessed him one
day to secure it to a support beam
in his lab and see if he couldn't
find the resonant frequency of
the whole building. He did. He
got the building shaking then the
earth around it such that he created a mini earthquake.
He didn't get the oscillator to
vibrate at the Earth's natural
frequency, rather he forced a small section of Earth to vibrate
at the building's resonant fre-
quency.
No particular potential for free
energy in this, but WOW.

This event really happened ... I might empthisis it was steam powered and the experiment is reproducable with a resonable stereo system..
;-) have fun kiddies ...

As for the wireless transmision of electricity, Tesla definatly designed this and it worked ... however it was financed by Westinghouse who promptly pulled funding once they understood the simple fact .. Anyone with a reciever could tap into the supply of electricity ... how could you charge for it then ? It was designed to be supplied by a hydroelectric dam not some BS aether energy from space. Anyway if you tried to implement it these days everyone who is scared of EMF's would have a fit .. LOL
Not there is a difference between the Tesla coil and "apparatise for the wireless transmition of electricity" they are not the same.

And the colorado Tesla coil was powered (for free) by the local hydrodam until they cooked the entire station... they raised the PD between Ground and the genorators too much I believe but I maybe wrong on that ... they where definitely raising the voltage of ground and possibly useing standing waves inside the earth.

There is a lot of myths around Tesla and seperating the truth from fiction can be hard ... but be sure Tesla was years, no decades ahead of the rest.

As for Tesla's "death ray" I have seen the plans for it and I must say it has some merit ... I believe something very similar appeared in the "Starwars" project .. only it was a few miles long and powered by a nukelear reactor. Esentually a big electron gun or particle cannon ... uses an open vacuum tube ,,, would produce x-rays too I think ...

As for alternate power systems ... I suggest you read up on R Buckminster Fuller ... in particular he proposed replacing fossil fuels with oil extracted from seaweed ... solar power at it's finest if you ask me. Only take about 40,000 sqr. km of ocean to replace the worlds oil supply.. since the Earth is 80% ocean that's nothing.

 

[Uncle Shorty]

the Earth must vibrate

The Earth must have a electric vibration of so many cycles of electric current. If you could take those vibration fead them into a massive tesla coil to step up the charge.