Russia's Massive Tesla Tower Revealed in Drone Footage(techswarm.com)
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Russia's Massive Tesla Tower Revealed in Drone Footage
http://www.techswarm.com/2015/02/russias-massive-tesla-tower-revealed-in.html
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From the article:
"However, so far that potential has only been measured in microseconds."
I'm no engineer, but for such a large generator, I would call that a pretty inefficient system.
Can anybody give me more information on the claims the article makes?
"However, so far that potential has only been measured in microseconds."
I'm no engineer, but for such a large generator, I would call that a pretty inefficient system.
Can anybody give me more information on the claims the article makes?
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This looks like something straight out of Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Was about to post the same thing :(
This thing was built in the 70s and is nothing more than a very dangerous Marx Generator. It's purpose was to test aircraft against lightning, not solve the world's energy needs.
I think people are getting it confused with the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower and two random Russians attempt to get an Indiegogo project funded ($40k out of $800k at the end).
Video of it running: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDPRqzHS0xU
7 years ago: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread319602/pg1
http://rt.com/news/170704-tesla-tower-lightning-russia/
This part is very interesting though: "Though the dome crumbled because of mistakes in its construction, the collapse had unintended historical consequences. The high-ranking Soviet Communist Party official in Moscow supervising the construction of the Istra dome was fired from his job and sent to a remote posting as punishment. He was replaced with fellow Communist apparatchik Boris Yeltsin, who was invited to work in Moscow and eventually became Russia’s first president."
Tesla Tower != Marx Generator != Tesla Coil != Van de Graff Generator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_Pulsed_Power_Facility (cool looking)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Livermore_National_Lab... and https://lasers.llnl.gov/ (where near-unlimited energy might actually happen)
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.htm... (another fusion team)
I'm curious as to whether the Tesla Tower was a hoax or just a miscalculation by Nikola Tesla.