Teslas electric car

[quantumtangles]

The answer is 1 minute and forty seconds into this youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atVSxvbiPg0

Ben Kraznow is an applied scientist. He shows how powerful external radio frequency waves can be used to induce current in a proximate plasma cleaner.

This does not mean Tesla was not a clever man. But it does mean...case solved.

[thx1138]

The answer is 1 minute and forty seconds into this youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atVSxvbiPg0

Ben Kraznow is an applied scientist. He shows how powerful external radio frequency waves can be used to induce current in a proximate plasma cleaner.

This does not mean Tesla was not a clever man. But it does mean...case solved.

Proximate being the key word. I don't get it. Maybe you can draw me a picture. Where did Tesla get the power to drive the coil and how did the plasma create kinetic energy to move the car?

Case solved?

[tturner]

@forest and everyone else
i just started a thread under tesla technology called "tesla zpr generator cosmic energy" that has a complete description and links to the cosmic ray therory and even a attachment called free energy suprise with plans how to build a devisr with huge outputs
the page is not getting much attention but i feel it needs a fair look from the group

[Jimboot]

I went Googling for old Buffalo newspaper articles on this to show a friend and could find none. Now it all seems to be fake news about how this was a hoax concocted in the 60s. Yet I have seen newspaper articles from the time that he did it. If anyone has them or links please post them here. I intend to fix Google.

[thx1138]

You probably won't find anything in the Buffalo, NY newspapers. All of the info about the electric car came, one way or another, from Peter Salvo, Tesla's nephew. Some say he was, at that time, a lonely man looking for attention. Could be. Maybe not. but since there's really no evidence to back it up, it really comes down to belief. Personally, I was intrigued by the article that said the car could be used to power a home when not in use as a vehicle. That kind of points away from transmitted power because anyone could just as well put a receiver on the house as well. Tesla never tried to transmit power through the air as far as I know. His initial patents were to transmit power between balloons at 30,000 feet. It's right there in the patents if you look for it. He did, however, accomplish transmitting power through the ground in Colorado Springs. See his Colorado Springs notes of July 4, 1899. That's when he saw power being transmitted through the ground by lightning. He didn't immediately recognize what he was seeing because the next day's notes are talking about extracting hydrogen from the atmosphere for the balloons. We surely would have photos if he ever tried to maintain balloons at 30,000 feet. It would have been a major undertaking and I've never seen any photos of such. Somewhere along the line he realized that he could use the ground and do away with the balloons. That's what Wardenclyffe was about. When the July 4, 1899 notes are fresh in your mind picture lightning striking the ground at the same place every time and under controlled frequency and duration to set up standing waves. That's what Wardenclyffe was about.

But how do you power a moving car that requires an attachment to the ground? You don't.

Another man named Arthur Matthews, who claimed to be Tesla's son, also talked about an electric car with a new kind of "primary battery" that any 15 year old boy could replenish with new plates when the battery ran down. The problem with him, however, is that he claimed Tesla was from Venus so he's considered a whacko.

At any rate, nuclear batteries are in use today. They are used in applications where longevity is needed and no maintenance is possible or extremely difficult. The Russians used them to power lighthouses around the arctic circle. They are also what powers the Voyager space probes that were launched in the late 70's and are still transmitting data back today as they reach the edge of the solar system and start out into interstellar space.

But to understand Tesla's discovery you have to understand the times. There were no regulations on working with nuclear material until the 1950's - after it was proven that nuclear energy could be weaponized by the atomic bombs in Japan. So in the 1930's the field was wide open. What today is called "radiation" is what Tesla meant by "radiant energy". He didn't even coin the term. It was Michael Faraday that proposed "radiant matter" and Crooke's was the first one that I know of that used the term "radiant energy".

Also understand that when Tesla first mentioned "radiant energy" the atom was thought to be the indivisible minima of matter. Scientists of that day didn't just think that electrons didn't exist, but thought they couldn't exist. They also thought that all of those twinkles in the night sky were sun's just like ours. It wasn't until the 1930's that it was recognized that galaxies existed and that our sun is just one star in one galaxy that has roughly a hundred billion stars.

That's just a couple of examples of what I mean about understanding the times that Tesla worked in. A lot of what we take for granted today was unknown during Tesla's time.

See the attached file. It also has a lot of links to info the about these claims.

If you still want to pursue Tesla's electric car though news reports see if you can find a copy of John Ratzlaff's "Tesla Said". That is a 300 page compilation of articles and presentations by Tesla.