Teslas electric car

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An all together different perspective. The car was powered by an atomic battery. Tesla believed that if radioactive materials could be shielded from cosmic rays the material would no longer be radioactive thus the cosmic rays were what activated radiation by impinging upon raioactive materials. Radium and other radioactive materials were available at the time and had no restrictions on their use. In the New York Times, July 11, 1937 article he spoke of producing radium for a dollar a pound. Why would that be important? Because radium was very rare and cost about 1,000 British Pounds per gram [font=]and a cheap supply would be needed if cars were to be powered with it. Take a look at page 13 at the following link. That is essentially Tesla's radiant energy patent without the condenser, the Sr-90 supplying the radiant energy and no need for a ground connection:  http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~blanchar/res/BlanchardKorea.pdf[/font]
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[font=][/font]The government didn't get into regulating nuclear materials until after the WW II atomic bombs. Personaly I think this is why he opposed the Manhattan project - it would weaponize radioactive materials and make then unavailable to the public but that's pure conjecture on my part.

The battery was said to be a "normal" 12V battery but how would anyone recognize the difference at the time, especially since the difference would be internal? It was also said to be capable of lighting a house when not in use as a vehicle.

The motor was said to be specially built for the project. How about 6 or more phases, the tubes used in phase change circuits for a multi-phase motor? I don't know enough about tube circuits to know if this could be done using 12 tubes or less. Some may have been needed for other purposes.

I still have a problem with the "normal" car controls. To what was the accelerator connected?

I don't think it was transmitted power because his air transmission was to be done between balloons at 30,000 feet (which he never tried) or through the ground (which he did accomplish) so how would a moving car have a ground connection on an unprepared roadway? The antenna could well have been a decoy and not in use at all because Tesla was very, very cautious at this time, i.e. the story about the secretary.

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I disagree completely.    Tesla was clear enough , don't try to distort his statements !

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Most everything I've seen on Tesla's car was someone saying what they or someone else said about the car. I've not seen much about what Tesla himself actually said about it except the following
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Question : Will not wireless transmission of energy result in time in the moving of practically all means of transportation with electrical energy from central power stations?

MR. TESLA : No, I do not expect that such will be the case, for the transportation systems now used present certain important practical advantages which cannot be disregarded.

Question: Will not automobiles, for instance, be operated merely by the operative "cutting in" on electrical energy supplied by wireless from power stations?

MR. TESLA : I fear we shall not live to see the wireless system in general use for this purpose.  It is difficult to propel an automobile by the new method for reasons with which experts are familiar. Success can be much more easily achieved in the case of airships.

In time to come it is possible that some form of automobile may be perfected that will enable this propulsion of such vehicles to be effected by power drawn from the ambient medium. [Glass, J. P. , "Tremendous Possibilities of Radio, An Interview With Nikola Tesla," Radio News, November 1922.]

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Cosmic rays would qualify as part of the "ambient medium" and Tesla believed they are what made radioactive materials radioactive. And in 1932 he said, "I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device. ... More than 25 years ago I began my efforts to harness the cosmic rays and I can now state that I have succeeded in operating a motive device by means of them." - "Tesla Cosmic Ray Motor May Transmit Power 'Round Earth", by John A. O'NEILL for Brooklin Eagle

Note that he says "...by means of them." not that they powered the device directly.

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http://www.tesla-coil-builder.com/Articles/jul_11_1937.htm


there is even a better statement but I can't find it right now. Essentially what Tesla stated is that radioactivity is a process of transforming cosmic rays into lower frequency which interacts with atoms. In other words : by knowing the principle he was able to do transmutation of stable elements which is impossible according to current theories. However the most surprising is the fact that theories are not violated, they are too simplified and not taking into consideration the simple fact : energy is coming to Earth from cosmos and gravity is the result of it. Radium and other radioactive matter has a curious property of traceiving this energy into lower frequency and thus break its bonds in the same manner as any other substance when heated enough....
In other words : he found a way to use that energy as the beam to smash atoms....the same way as used in accelerators spending a lot of power.

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I read that aticle in my earlier studies but had forgotten it. From the article: "In a ten-page typewritten statement outlining his discoveries, Dr. Tesla gave a    resume of his work in the fields of gravity and cosmic rays." Have you ever seen that 10 page document on the web? I don't remember it.

This may be a stretch but another aspect that we often discount is his Turbine. In the patent he specifically states "...the particles of the fluid...", i.e. a particle accelerator. Air can be considered a fluid and, to stretch it even further, so can aether. So his turbine could be related to this staement in the article: "It employs more than three dozen of my inventions, it    is a complex apparatus, an agglomeration of parts."