Did Tesla OBSERVE "radiant" aka "free" energy?

[JouleSeeker]

As a teenager, I read a book on Nikola Tesla and found the man and his inventions totally fascinating.  I built my own Tesla coil in High School.  Clearly Tesla's contributions have been under-played in the history books; probably because people like Edison and JP Morgan did not want to see him lauded.  I recently purchased a "Tesla > Edison" bumper sticker for my truck.

  I have read that Tesla did pioneering work in what he called "radiant energy", also called "free energy" in more recent years...  But did he actually OBSERVE this during his lifetime?    I would like to know!  and give him due credit.

It seems that so many of Tesla's contributions have been obscured -- and I would like to see that changed.  So glad to see progress on a Tesla museum at the site of his Wardenclyffe experiments.

[NickZ]

  JouleSeeker:
  I'm always glad to see your posts, and hear your thoughts, and test results.

  As a kid my dad always mentioned Tesla and his famous Tesla coils,  as well as his radio circuits, antennas circuits, and such. And that they took electrical energy,  and were able to amplify it to make those big sparks that we've all seen. But, I never heard anything about it being "free energy". I always understood it to be coming from generators or some other more conventional source, and then amplified to much higher voltages, but always at the expense of the the available current. So, no free energy there, as I understood it.
  However if there is a way of making free energy from such devices, I'm always  interested in learning how its done, as I'm sure many others are also.

[Liberty]

That's quite a "Title" or thread topic, to say the least.

Do you mean to state that "Radiant Energy" is "Free Energy"?  (Actually, I would agree with that, up to a point...)

While I can not "Prove" this, I understand that, more than once, Tesla blew out the generators while testing the Colorado tower due to feedback of power.  To me, this points very clearly to a source of energy other than the input because if the burnouts were caused by too much power returning to the generators...  (EE's, don't waste your time trying your "Conventional" excuses/reasons.  I've heard it all before.  Try reading Tesla's notes with the Power Plant managers notes.)

Many of Tesla's works should be lauded, but rarely are.  It's more than sad.  A real "Sore" point for me is that he was given credit for Radio over Marconi, when even Tesla himself stated that he was transmitting other ways.  I could go on for a long time, but suffice it to say, he was able to generate "Free Energy", in the standard, scientific definition.  To this day, a LOT of info is distorted and most EE's will tell you it's "Bunk".  (They wouldn't want to waste their education.  My 6 Years didn't help a bit.)

I feel sorry for them.  There is SO much to be re-learned.  Also, be careful.  If you expose anything useful here, the trolls WILL find you, one way or another.  I speak from experience on that point.

I have wondered whether Mr. Tesla ever encountered free energy also.  I came to the conclusion from his own writings that since he scorned perpetual motion machines, it would seem that he did not believe that he could achieve free energy other than the radiant energy patent.  But he said that the collection of that energy was very slow.  While reading his patent on the tuning of the tower that he built; he said that he pulsed the lower coil with at first low power, to tune the resonance of the pulse, to that of his series tank circuit or the tower coil and sphere shaped capacitor at the top.  He was tuning the pulse input from the electrical generators as input, so that the wave length of the pulse would peak at the capacitor at the top of the tower.  This way maximum voltage would be stored in the top capacitor at the top of the tower.  He warned that the fire ball that could occur with this device was due to the frequency mismatch of the input pulse being at a wavelength that did not occur at the capacitor top of the tower, but somewhere short or long of that destination.  The result was a buildup of electrical potential that manifested itself as a fire ball of great intensity of many thousands of horsepower, that would erupt with quite a display. 

Mr. Tesla mentioned that the tower had a natural resonance and the input pulse needed to be tuned to match that resonance in wavelength so that in essence, 1/4 wavelength would result in maximum voltage potential and that potential needs to occur at the point of the top doughnut capacitor at the top of the tower.  (Low Standing Wave Ratio or SWR).

I totally enjoyed reading and understanding his device, but I see many issues with it's practical application and use.  Weather would adversely affect his device if it became wet.  The resonance would change resulting in the enormous discharge of electrical potential somewhere other than at the capacitor top. 

The only way it might show any OU, would be if he pulsed the input and abruptly stopped the pulse, allowing the environment to react to the sudden loss of a magnetic field and would supply the sudden change in magnetic field in order to attempt to fill the void.  But I don't know if this has been proven or not.

[NickZ]

  One point that has been clearly made is that the car from 1931 ran on something other than batteries or stored power of any kind. So, one can deduce that he did know about and use some form of what could be called "free energy". Or at least energy from the surrounding ambient to power the car at 90mph. This may be one of the most important points proving that it is possible. Even it it takes another 100 years to figure out and further implement.

[Pirate88179]

I have many books on Tesla in my home library and, in one of them, I remember Tesla saying to someone that there was enough energy in the air to run the world.  Well, at that time, it would not take a whole lot as most of the world was without power...also, he might possibly have been speaking of the sun for all I know...but I don't think so.  Possibly, we may never know.

Bill