DATE-21/08/2019

Nikola Tesla Seeks to

Harness the Power of Nature
“It seems that I have always been ahead of my time.”

hydroelectric power

1. Nature has stored up in the universe infinite energy.”  To

Tesla, “the eternal recipient and transmitter of this infinite
energy is the ether.” 

2. “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy (with special

references to the harnessing of the sun’s energy),”

Tesla leaped ahead a hundred years by anticipating the need for

renewable sources of energy to power our planet. He noted
that “besides fuel, there is abundant material from which we
might eventually derive power” and suggested that “an
immense amount of energy is locked up in limestone, for
instance, and machines can be driven by liberating the carbonic
acid through sulfuric acid or otherwise.”  He even claimed to
have constructed such an engine and that “it operated
satisfactorily.”

Tesla was so far ahead of his time that, while others at the turn of the
twentieth century were busy exploiting coal, iron, aluminum, and
drilling for oil, he was already recognizing the limits of those
endeavors. He was into conservation. “Whatever our resources of primary
energy may be in the future,” Tesla wrote, “we must, to be rational, obtain
it without consumption of any material.” He believed that natural sources
of energy could  “eliminate the need of coal, oil, gas or any other of the
common fuels.”One way was to harness the power of the wind.

“It is difficult to believe, but it is, nevertheless, a fact, that since time
immemorial man has had at his disposal a fairly good machine which has
enabled him to utilize the energy of the ambient medium. This machine is the
windmill.“

Energy For the Whole World

“Impossible as it seemed, this planet, despite its vast extent, behaved like a conductor of
limited dimensions...... Not only was it practicable to send telegraphic messages to any
distance without wires, as I recognized long ago, but also to impress upon the entire globe the
faint modulations of the human voice, far more still, to transmit power, in unlimited amounts,
to any terrestrial distance and almost without loss. “ ● Tesla in an article Electrical World and
Engineer, March 5, 1904