BBC Horizon 1982 - The Mysterious Mr Tesla - part2

[flowerbower]

Journalists love crackpots because they make for a good story. Tesla is completely irrelevant to science. The only mystery is how a scientific unit came to be named after him. It must have something to do with the well-known tendency of electrical engineers to be flakes.

[slider2732]

That last part made me wonder about a change to nuclear power...creating inert states, by combining radioactive spent fuels in a process that creates energy from the radionuclides. End result, even if of small electrical worth, the harmful spent fuels would be rendered safe. Reactive Ionisation ?

[jatigre1]

Misleading to say the least, this documentary.

[yourtube20061]

@jatigre1 could u elaborate ? i wd like to know more why u say so.

[jatigre1]

@yourtube20061 please watch: Gerry Vassilatos Ray of Discovery series from Borderland Sciences. Whenever you hear the name Tesla and NOT hear the words Luminiferous Aether together with it, don't pay any attention to it!

[sanarkhos]

I have the volume all the way up and still can't hear this

[contentlocked99]

wouldnt the earth be riddled with lightning strikes if he released a current in the stratosphere?

[evilferret132]

@contentlocked99 i dont think so...coz its been done ...well now by the US to control the weather not very advanced or not advanced to control weather

[weenyone]

interesting to look back and see how some of these suggestions especially the one about ball lighting could be used for nuclear fusion. It has not happened that way

[gt4awd]

I bet you Tesla tuned the coil for 1/4 resonance with that huge topload on top of the building one night after drinking some whiskey... Hahah, but seriously has anyone figured out fussion through high voltage discharge? I know there was a show on science channel where they have almost accomplished overunity fussion. It was a donut shaped room completely surrounded in electromagnets. An intense plasma discharge is contained within the room.

[evilferret132]

@gt4awd isnt that called a tomamak?

where plasma wurld around the insides

the plasma got hotter than the surface of the sun

unless it was a diffrent exsperiment

[gt4awd]

I believe so. Not sure of the name (tomamak), but I do know the heat generated by the intense plasma field is hotter than the surface of the sun. If we can covert that heat into more energy than whats required for the plasma field overunity...

[recessionlover]

@evilferret132 It's tokamak