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Russian Scientists Raising Funds to Rebuild Tesla Tower, Satisfy World Energy Hunger

posted by n1 on Sunday July 06 2014, @12:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the give-us-your-money dept.

cafebabe writes:

From RT:

Leonid and Sergey Plekhanov, graduates of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, claim they have spent years scrutinizing the Nikola Tesla's patents and diaries and they believe that with his most ambitious project - transcontinental wireless energy transmissions - Tesla came very close to unprecedented scientific discovery that could be brought to fruition.

The enthusiasts say they need about $800,000 to reconstruct the famous Wardenclyffe Tower once created by Tesla himself to implement his ideas and find a commercial application for his ideas on long-distance wireless energy transmission.

The Plekhanov brothers are raising money through IndieGogo croudfunding.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by TheLink on Monday July 07 2014, @06:03AM

    by TheLink (332) on Monday July 07 2014, @06:03AM (#65104) Journal
    1) How would a wireless energy transmission tech solve world energy hunger? That's about as stupid as saying a new food distribution tech will solve starvation world wide.

    Unless your transmission/distribution tech magically transfers energy from a plentiful source to those that need it, it's not going to solve "world energy hunger". The last I checked the "plentiful source" part is the problem for energy.

    2) Who pays? How do you bill people for the energy? You going to give me plentiful energy for free?

    3) If we all somehow have free limitless energy, the Earth will soon become glowing hot.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 08 2014, @06:37AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 08 2014, @06:37AM (#65743)

    That's the worst possible analogy you could make, there indeed is more than enough food to feed all people on earth but no distribution...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 08 2014, @09:30AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 08 2014, @09:30AM (#65803)
      Really? Tell me what nonmagical food distribution technology would solve starvation world wide?

      For food the problem is politics not distribution technology.

      In lots of countries you can get the food there but the army just comes in and takes the food. Might even shoot people while doing so.