• Dark Arc@social.packetloss.gg
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    4 months ago

    That’s not right… He was trying to achieve wireless power through Earth resonance. Which AFAIK is pretty much now completely debunked as never going to work … but it tracks with Tesla’s world view.

    It’s kind of crazy how much you can build without a complete understanding… There’s probably stuff we think we understand now that we really don’t and other stuff left to discover.

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      4 months ago

      I was thinking his wireless transmission, not harvesting… yeah, that is pretty out there.

      No doubt there is plenty to discover, but there is a lot of B.S. that can be discarded, but people cling to it.

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        4 months ago

        He also wanted to use the resonance for transmission AFAIK. He didn’t really buy into the radio waves from a scientific standpoint (which to be fair to him … everything was more theoretical back then; if he was in the modern era, he’d have better information to use).