If Nikola Tesla's inventions were used.....
Torie Marcune
Nikola Tesla was an influential inventor in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s. He invented a way to transmit electricity through air waves instead of delivering it through wires like seen today. In 1899 Tesla conducted an experiment to test his invention on a larger scale. Not only did it prove to be successful, but it proved that it was extremely efficient; only losing 5% of energy along the way. With the funding of J. P. Morgan, he then began to build a large Tesla coil which would transmit this free electricity on a global scale. In 1906, about halfway through the project’s completion, Tesla lost his funding and had to abandon his dream of broadcasting energy to the world.
Although tragic, there is a reason behind Tesla’s loss of funding. Wireless electricity would be impossible to meter, so no money could be made off of it. Morgan saw no purpose in investing any further in something that he couldn’t make money off of. Additionally, around the same time Tesla had lost his patents on AC motors and some of his other inventions, throwing him further into debt.
However, imagine a world in which Tesla’s project had been finished and put into use.
His methods of transmitting electricity could have been improved and perfected greatly over the years, potentially being able to power the entire globe with this energy. Being impossible to meter, we wouldn’t have to pay for our electricity, instead we would probably be taxed equally for the usage of the air waves, but our power supply would never be cut off for missing for not being able to pay.
Even more importantly, it’s mostly a clean source of energy. While his method of transmitting energy is powered off of the radiant energy around us, it does require some initial energy from a power plant to get it working. However, if it had been improved throughout the years, the need of a power plant could have been eliminated entirely. Another advantage is that since it powers everything
Nikola Tesla was an influential inventor in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s. He invented a way to transmit electricity through air waves instead of delivering it through wires like seen today. In 1899 Tesla conducted an experiment to test his invention on a larger scale. Not only did it prove to be successful, but it proved that it was extremely efficient; only losing 5% of energy along the way. With the funding of J. P. Morgan, he then began to build a large Tesla coil which would transmit this free electricity on a global scale. In 1906, about halfway through the project’s completion, Tesla lost his funding and had to abandon his dream of broadcasting energy to the world.
Although tragic, there is a reason behind Tesla’s loss of funding. Wireless electricity would be impossible to meter, so no money could be made off of it. Morgan saw no purpose in investing any further in something that he couldn’t make money off of. Additionally, around the same time Tesla had lost his patents on AC motors and some of his other inventions, throwing him further into debt.
However, imagine a world in which Tesla’s project had been finished and put into use.
His methods of transmitting electricity could have been improved and perfected greatly over the years, potentially being able to power the entire globe with this energy. Being impossible to meter, we wouldn’t have to pay for our electricity, instead we would probably be taxed equally for the usage of the air waves, but our power supply would never be cut off for missing for not being able to pay.
Even more importantly, it’s mostly a clean source of energy. While his method of transmitting energy is powered off of the radiant energy around us, it does require some initial energy from a power plant to get it working. However, if it had been improved throughout the years, the need of a power plant could have been eliminated entirely. Another advantage is that since it powers everything