What Was Nikola Tesla's Vision for the Tesla Tower's Global Electricity Network?

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Nikola Tesla's vision for the Tesla Tower involved creating a global electricity network that would transmit energy wirelessly around the globe. The tower was designed to harness energy from the ionosphere, generating man-made lightning by pulling massive amounts of electricity from this atmospheric layer. The concept included the idea of a continuous loop of electricity, where energy would be fired from the tower, travel around the Earth, and return, thus maintaining a perpetual energy cycle.

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I haven't looked into it much but I was watching a documentary that said Tesla intended the tower to fire a massive ball of electricity all the way around the globe and back to the tower again and keep repeating the process. What the hells that all about?

I thought the Tesla tower was supposed to be so positively charged that it pull massive amounts of electricity out of the ionosphere and that's how man made lightning was formed.

Whats this flying electron ball about?
 
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Can you provide a web pointer to what you are talking about? Thanks.
 
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2188562935002257117&q=nikola+tesla&total=282&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

Skip to 10 minutes. I think the idea was to charge the ionosphere so much that you could pull electricity out of it from anywhere in the world.
 
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