Living here in the USA where even those families that are supposedly living on the poverty line have TV’s, computers and play stations it is hard to imagine life without these splendid luxuries. But that is what they are “luxuries”. A large portion of the world does not even have access to electricity let alone these commonplace electrical gadgets that we all take for granted.

If we had no available electricity then we would find a means to generate our own, albeit a small amount. There are many blueprints and plans for getting off the grid that work well enough to generate sufficient electricity to power essential appliances. So for example cooking and lighting would be no problem. The basic components for generating your own electricity are almost household items. For example a Tesla radiant energy generator costs only a few dollars.

But what can be done for those who live in energy poverty. Energy poverty is a serious threat to the developing worlds and steps are being made to tackle this problem.

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This extract from the New York Times illustrates the general trend towards green living and the use of alternative energy and energy efficiency devices in our homes today.

The incandescent lightbulbs are finally on their way out.

The law to phase out traditional incandescent light bulbs was promoted as a simple, almost painless, change when Congress first passed it. By requiring that light bulbs use at least 25 percent less electricity, starting in 2012, the nation would use less energy, manufacturers would invent more efficient types of bulbs and the planet would be spared millions of tons of carbon emissions every year.

But the traditional light bulb — that lowly orb of glass, filament and threaded metal base — has become a powerful emotional symbol, conjuring both consumer anxiety over losing a familiar and flattering light source and political antipathy to government meddling.

On Friday, the House voted to delay enforcement of the new standards until at least Oct. 1, with the Senate expected to agree, as part of a last-minute budget deal to keep the government operating through the rest of the fiscal year. Republicans have vowed to press for a full repeal of the new rules.

 

I wonder what Nikola Tesla would have to say about this? Possibly something along the lines of “now is the time for my wireless electricity”.

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The First World System Of Nikola Tesla

The mind of Nikola Tesla was not satisfied with merely inventing great machines and devices. He had far-reaching plans for integrating their use world-wide and bringing increased power to people around the globe. In private, he referred to this as his World-System, which would rely on the wireless transmission of power to enable the empowerment of humankind. Here we discuss the Tesla Wireless World System.

From The Electrical Experimenter, February 1919

Advocating For The First World System Power Plant

Tesla outlined five key applications of his discoveries in describing his envisioned world-system. He suggested that this plan could be put into use in nine months with the beginning of operations at the power plant he had designed. Among other things, he promised that this plant could attain power equal to ten million horsepower at little cost to the human race.

• Tesla’s Transformer. The inventor claimed that this device could create stronger electric currents than had been seen before. He also said that he himself had produced sparks over 100 feet long with his own equipment.

• The Magnifying Transmitter. Many would agree that this was Tesla’s best invention. He was able to produce electrical output stronger than that of a lightning bolt. He claimed to have passed a current successfully all the way around the globe with this device.

• Tesla’s Wireless System. This system is the sole method known for transferring electricity long distances without the aid of a wire or other hard connection. The potential is for world-wide transmission which would lose only a few percent of original power, at most.

• Individualization of Tune. Tesla discovered how to refine transmitted signals so that they could not be deciphered or even detected, since they would neither interfere with other signals nor would they take interference. Each signal would have a unique identity.

• Terrestrial Waves. The last part of Tesla’s world system plan includes the application of his discovery that the Earth responds to electric vibrations just as a tuning fork responds to sound.

While keeping in context with the general topic of this website about the Tesla Generator  I am including a series of interesting discussions to do with the inventions and concepts of this great inventor and thinker. The Tesla generator is possibly the most useful of his discoveries in that it enables the ordinary person to begin to make their own electricity, albeit in small amounts.

This short article is about Nikola Tesla and his pursuance of free energy.
It is incredible how a person’s mind may be spurred to fantastic revelations by the natural events that surround him. Nikola Tesla was often moved by his perception of the natural world to create or design instruments that would open the doors of the universe’s power storage. He was often successful in doing so.

The famous inventor was already a successful man when the idea for his magnifying transmitter first came to him in the mountains while he took a relaxing walk. A thunderstorm threatened and he took temporary refuge from it, though he remained where he could watch the storm approach and then develop overhead. He was particularly intrigued by the way that the rain began to fall.

Nikola Tesla Observing Nature’s Trigger

The storm threatened but did not release any rain until a key event happened. Tesla noted that a flash of lightning preceded the fall of rain. He realized that the electrical output had triggered the rainfall. More importantly, he realized that the amount of electricity required to trigger it was easily within his capacity to generate.

Tesla was overcome with the potentialities that he saw in the development of such a trigger that humans could utilize. At the present time, it was only the power of the sun’s warmth which could move masses of moist air over the regions of the Earth, falling in one spot and failing to fall in others. Those areas that received rain were arable and those that did not were deserts.

Were humans to possess devices which could spur or deter rainfall, they would be able to transform the Earth in any fashion they desired. Fascinated by the potential power of such a device, Tesla returned home that day intent on learning how to harness the electrical powers of the world for this end. In 1892, he began work which would further this end as well as his simultaneous desire to transmit energy wirelessly.