Nikola Tesla's Red Pill

[RennieParticipant]

FrankOne wrote:

Rennie: Yes, one of the other criticisms of power transmission through the air, even if it could be made to work, was that there would be no way to meter it and prevent people from consuming it without paying.

That’s a good point too.

[OldBillParticipant]

FrankOne wrote:

I’m only vaguely familiar with the mercury arc rectifier; how does it relate to transmission?

Truly long distance transmission requires very high voltages, with even higher voltages required for even longer distances. With voltages over 700 kV in play, they must be stepped down before use naturally. What you need is something which can handle the voltage without also having to be repaired often. There are many ways to build a rectifier and the Achille’s heel of many rectifier design is the anode – cathode pairing. The more voltage you ram through the rectifier the more damage you create via heating, electron flow, and the like. In the mercury arc rectifier the cathode happens to be self-renewing thanks to the presence of a pool of mercury kept in low pressure. Keep the pressure in spec and you can run a mercury arc system for decades without a worry.

So the mercury arc rectifier lasts longer under the higher voltages needed for long distance transmission. While Tesla’s Niagara Falls power station was groundbreaking, it only powered factories within a dozen miles or so and didn’t light Buffalo because that distance required a robust rectifier Tesla couldn’t pull out of his bag of tricks.

Wasn’t that how they converted high power A/C to D/C before silicon controlled rectifiers, to power arc lights, for battery chargers, electroplating, and other DC applications?

Exactly. Huge and not so huge AC to DC conversions in which you didn’t want to be repairing or swapping out rectifiers every other day.

I didn’t realize Tesla didn’t invent A/C itself and have been reading about Ferraris and some of the others.

He didn’t invent it, but he did invent the reason why everyone wanted to use it: the AC induction motor.

Thanks for your corrections.

Not “corrections”, “reminders” is more accurate.

Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.

[bobphiloParticipant 1772]

Yes, one of the other criticisms of power transmission through the air, even if it could be made to work, was that there would be no way to meter it and prevent people from consuming it without paying

Frankone, The ability to make electricity available to all for free was the goal Tesla was striving for. He was a humanitarian who wished to share this gift for all mankind.

[Anonymous 18]

Tesla to me represents a man who was an introvert, a weirdo, gambling addict at one point, somewhat of a failure early in his life. A man who was led by thought and intuition. An independent thinker.

If I do things right I expect to be totally insane by 85. Insanity is like taking a dump of the decades of forced fed BS. Not just women but all the sugar coatings on what we deem humanity. The donut of double standards.

85 is right around the time I expect boner and porn to stop working too. Good thing with Alzheimers is I could fap to same video and marvel how the video was rated 5-star without me actually rating it.

Mind blown.

[OldBillParticipant]

bobphilo wrote:

Yes, one of the other criticisms of power transmission through the air, even if it could be made to work, was that there would be no way to meter it and prevent people from consuming it without paying.

That’s a rather simplistic argument against broadcast power and one loony conspiracy theorists and Tesla fanboys always trot out. It’s a basic article of their faith that evil corporations and other shadowy figures are suppressing cancer cures, 100mpg carburetors, the Greys, and all the rest.

There would be ways to “meter” broadcast power. Try and mull this over: Radio and television signals are broadcast for free and somehow all those stations still make a tidy profit.

The ability to make electricity available to all for free was the goal Tesla was striving for. He was a humanitarian who wished to share this gift for all mankind.

Sure he was. That’s why he spent most of his time during his last years trying to interest governments in his death ray.

Tesla was a genius. He was also just a man. There’s no need to build a shrine to him.

Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.

[RennieParticipant]

Anonymous wrote:

Tesla to me represents a man who was an introvert, a weirdo, gambling addict at one point, somewhat of a failure early in his life. A man who was led by thought and intuition. An independent thinker.

If I do things right I expect to be totally insane by 85. Insanity is like taking a dump of the decades of forced fed BS. Not just women but all the sugar coatings on what we deem humanity. The donut of double standards.

85 is right around the time I expect boner and porn to stop working too. Good thing with Alzheimers is I could fap to same video and marvel how the video was rated 5-star without me actually rating it.

Mind blown.

Hopefully by 85 I’m either dead, or am in such good health that I can dance for hours like this guy.

[Anonymous 18]

Rennie wrote:

Hopefully by 85 I’m either dead, or am in such good health that I can dance for hours like this guy.

Count me in. MGTOW party for millennials. P~~~ing in my man diapers at 85 dancing to the tune of:

“I took it red, wommenz were mad, ain’t nuthin’ but free, throwin’ ’em off my tree. No monkey branchin’ where I live, cuz ’em hoes were give give and give, Money and bitches don’t mix,
utube.
post Wall ®.
dry pussy.
season 6.

Liked and subscribed, satisfaction best described.

Imma dress sharp in ma grandpa silk suspenders, laughing at bitches markin’ their calendars but dem weddin’ seasons come and go cuz this thug was too smart to love a foe”.

Someone needs to add loops and bass in logic studio.

Dress code calls for gold teeth, and white pimp leather loafers.

[Anonymous 5]

Ohno wrote:

lbert Einstein was once asked, how it feels to be the smartest man alive.

His answer: ” that you have to ask Nikola Tesla.”

Einstein was only a little behind Tesla concerning Red Pills.
Unfortunately he had to learn from the experience of marriage, like many of us.
He described the universal behaviour of NAWALT and Hypergamy in one of the cleverest phrases I’ve come across yet.

Men marry women hoping they never change,,,,,,they always do.
Women marry men hoping they can change them,,,,they never do.

Women always change back to who they really are,,,and they never stop attempting to make their male a better asset.

Don’t read about Einstein’s marriage hell, it’s too depressing.

[RennieParticipant]

Anonymous wrote:

Rennie wrote:

Hopefully by 85 I’m either dead, or am in such good health that I can dance for hours like this guy.

Count me in. MGTOW party for millennials. P~~~ing in my man diapers at 85 dancing to the tune of:

“I took it red, wommenz were mad, ain’t nuthin’ but free, throwin’ ’em off my tree. No monkey branchin’ where I live, cuz ’em hoes were give give and give, Money and bitches don’t mix,
utube.
post Wall ®.
dry pussy.
season 6.

Liked and subscribed, satisfaction best described.

Imma dress sharp in ma grandpa silk suspenders, laughing at bitches markin’ their calendars but dem weddin’ seasons come and go cuz this thug was too smart to love a foe”.

Someone needs to add loops and bass in logic studio.

Dress code calls for gold teeth, and white pimp leather loafers.

Get it up.
Get it up.
Higha…
Higha…

[FrankOneParticipant 1419]

Oldbill: Thanks for educating me further about rectifiers. Industrially, I’ve worked with many adjustable-speed drives, and understood, there are losses in rectifying AC to DC and generating AC at the desired frequency from the DC, so they always have a gigantic heat sink and fan, and if the fans fail or the room gets too hot due to loss of air conditioning, they have reliability problems. I didn’t realize the important role the mercury arc rectifier played before the advent of semiconductors until I read further on the subject & also your informative post.

I’m not a conspiracy theorist. I don’t believe broadcast power was suppressed because it couldn’t be metered.

I’ve been reading more about Tesla and didn’t realize there was such a mythology surrounding him — e.g. groups of people believing the Wardenclyffe tower was ‘suppressed’, for instance — as opposed to it simply being an un-economic business proposition to the investors, in light of Marconi’s advances. Tesla required financers for his projects, so he had to try to make a case for how there would be payback for investment. I’ve since read the quote ‘If anyone can draw on the power, where do we put the meter’ supposedly attributed to his financier J. P. Morgan, but can find no actual contemporary citation as proof Morgan actually stated this. I did not realize Tesla was often being associated with conspiracy theories — so I think I understand your criticism of that too.

There are certainly practical means of transmitting electrical power over short distances without wires, e.g. inductive coupling of an electric toothbrush in its cradle — I’ve used Interplaks for years — an elegant scheme to keep it watertight and avoid corroding connectors and shorts causing a GFI trip in the bathroom. But that is very different from high power transmission over long distances without significant losses. Some cell phones have started using it but charge times are slower from what I’ve read.

[Puffin StuffParticipant 24979]

I don’t know much about Tesla, I’m in the medical field, but he seems like an example of the giant contributions that can be made when men go their own way.

#icethemout; Remember Thomas Ball. He died for your children.

[AttonParticipant]

OldBill wrote:

FrankOne wrote:

I’m only vaguely familiar with the mercury arc rectifier; how does it relate to transmission?

Truly long distance transmission requires very high voltages, with even higher voltages required for even longer distances. With voltages over 700 kV in play, they must be stepped down before use naturally. What you need is something which can handle the voltage without also having to be repaired often. There are many ways to build a rectifier and the Achille’s heel of many rectifier design is the anode – cathode pairing. The more voltage you ram through the rectifier the more damage you create via heating, electron flow, and the like. In the mercury arc rectifier the cathode happens to be self-renewing thanks to the presence of a pool of mercury kept in low pressure. Keep the pressure in spec and you can run a mercury arc system for decades without a worry.

So the mercury arc rectifier lasts longer under the higher voltages needed for long distance transmission. While Tesla’s Niagara Falls power station was groundbreaking, it only powered factories within a dozen miles or so and didn’t light Buffalo because that distance required a robust rectifier Tesla couldn’t pull out of his bag of tricks.

Wasn’t that how they converted high power A/C to D/C before silicon controlled rectifiers, to power arc lights, for battery chargers, electroplating, and other DC applications?

Exactly. Huge and not so huge AC to DC conversions in which you didn’t want to be repairing or swapping out rectifiers every other day.

I didn’t realize Tesla didn’t invent A/C itself and have been reading about Ferraris and some of the others.

He didn’t invent it, but he did invent the reason why everyone wanted to use it: the AC induction motor.

Thanks for your corrections.

Not “corrections”, “reminders” is more accurate.

Why even bother with rectification before the advent of semiconductors.

A MGTOW is a man who is not a woman's bitch!

[OldBillParticipant]

Atton wrote:

Why even bother with rectification before the advent of semiconductors.

Because industry mostly required DC voltage and long distance transmission could only be achieved by high tension AC.

Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.

[Anonymous 5]

Tesla did alot and IS what comes to mind when I hear the word “passion”. I really feel he knew his place in this place, we call earth. A man who stood tall and did not need acceptance only his – ah love the post! Good read. Thanks Atlas.

[StevenMcphearsonParticipant 19]

I like this quote from Tesla. My only gripe is his tendencies later in his life. He’s brilliant, but he didn’t make that connection with others that Edison did. Connections are important and Edison knew that.

Still, Tesla seemed to be missing something that doesn’t really make me view him as a complete figure to follow. That connection that’s important to get your ideas funded properly I suppose. Still a great figure many could look up to.

EDIT

Whether or not his pigeon affair was legit we may never know. If it wasn’t then he’s quite possibly the most hilarious man in history.

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