"you quite simply cannot state what the sun is with such certainty, we don't know."
Yeah we do, we know in detail the various nuclear reactions that occur in the sun.
If it was possible to build a multi-million dollar business from scratch then everyone would be doing it, wouldn't they?
No, most people are far too lazy and/or stupid and lack the self confidence to do it. It's quite possible if that is your goal and you are willing and able to work for it. The richest guys I know started with nothing.
The laws of classical physics only apply to how the world appears on the surface, and we are still making discoveries that seemingly contradict previous theories.
Yes, sometimes theories of physics are contradicted, the laws of physics, like conservation of energy, are never contradicted.
Burning wood puts a lot of particulates into the air but it is carbon neutral.
No, Tesla wanted to transmit electricity wirelessly and he was able to do so, he harnessed the power of Niagara falls, hydroelectric was the source. The problem with wireless transmission is that you could not meter it, you are basically broadcasting electricity, anyone could receive it. Obviously that is not a sound business plan and that's why his funding was pulled. Fun fact about Tesla, since he owned the patent on AC he was receiving a royalty of $1 for each kilowatt hour of AC power. He choose to give up his royalty because otherwise AC electricity would have been too expensive for mass adoption.
Cold fusion is a technology that is always 10 years away.
Tesla was aiming at free and wireless electricity. It's absolutely shocking (little pun there) that Tesla was pretty much completely left out of the history and science we have been fed by the education system.
... His first discussion is about a machine that can gather heat from the ambient air. He calls it a “Self-acting Engine” since it could run indefinitely from the solar energy stored in the air. He called it “the ideal way of obtaining motive power”......
No we do not know exactly how the sun works in much the same way we have no idea what gravity is, the electric sun theory actually seems to make a lot of sense, any theory that goes against mainstream dogma is criticised and often called pseudoscience which is hilariously hypocritical.
I think a lot of Tesla's ideas about free energy sourced from the atmosphere were based on the electric universe theory and in fact Einstein died trying to prove that not only were the forces of electricity and magnetism of the same field of energy, where they were previously regarded as separate forces, but that gravity was also in the same field, in proving gravity to be in the same field of energy as electromagnetism he would have proved a unified field for all existence (I'm not sure why it would prove that)....
I generally do weigh up both sides of things and often sit on the fence as far as opinions go, in this case however I am much more open to the possibilities in the unknown and the mystery of the subatomic quantum world rather than having my mind closed by old fashioned ideas. It's not as black and white as science once made out.
He is talking about a sterling engine, they are used in some commercial scale solar electric generation stations. they work on temperature differentials. You can buy a model that you can build at home. my brother had to build one as part of his mechanical engineering degree from MIT. Goddard built a working solar power unit prior to 1920.
we know a lot about the sun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun
tesla's electricity would have been free of charge, not "free energy" in the perpetual motion machine sense.
I won the science fair twice, once was with my tesla coil and the other was with my pickle light based on quantum physics.
The geet engine and perpetual motion free energy machines are impossible under both classic and quantum physics.
Perhaps you're right. So Tesla did not believe in the electromagnetic nature of the universe and did not believe that we could harness this unlimited energy source to power the world for free. It would definitely be unreasonable to assume that the huge spinning magnet we live on could provide free and usable electricity. The electric sun model has no scientific bases because we already know exactly what it is, we know everything and scientists should stop investigating any method of trying to harness the natural power that governs the universe because they will forever be at a loss. It is not and never will be possible to tap the electric forces that are the very makeup of the material world. Perpetual motion is never going to be possible ever because we know everything already.
I'm glad we cleared this up.
This is fairly interesting
"However the atoms in time crystals – the existence of which was first suggested in 2012 – repeat a pattern across the fourth dimension, time.
This essentially means they should oscillate forever without any external influence."
he believed we could harness hydroelectric, geothermal and solar energy to power the world for free. In theory we can and we do already to some extent except people like making money so it's not really free. He also believed he contacted aliens.
Perpetual motion is never going to be possible ever because of everything we know already. Tesla certainly didn't believe a perpetual motion machine was possible because he had a good understanding of physics.
Where can I learn more about time crystals? what is that a quote from?
Google, quantum time crystals.. It's trippy, as is most of the quantum stuff. It's interesting how perpetual motion could not even take place in a "frictionless" vacuum apparently due to decaying atoms exerting a force or something. I'm actually not that sciency to be honest I'm more curious about the nature of consciousness and it does seem the only way we can actually know something of the outside world is to know the nature of consciousness because the two are inextricably one and the same, science is only really beggining to realise objective reality is essentially made of consciousness. I do think alternative energies are purposefully suppressed and that there is untold amounts of useable energy in the atmosphere, the torus, van allen radiation belt (which has never been passed by man and probably not even machine).. I do wonder about what secrets are being kept from us in Antarctica, I think it's the only treaty that has never been broken...
I don't google things
-wikipedia
There you go, the laws of physics are inviolate.
It is perpetual
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, with internal convective motion that generates a magnetic field via a dynamo process. It is by far the most important source of energy for life on Earth. Its diameter is about 1.39 million kilometers, i.e.