his investions are not business wise. he only planned to distribute his wireless electricity for free. whose going to earn from that? this is why his project was not supported. its ideal but the investors weren't happy about it. the guy is genius that its been said he talks outside to aliens lol thag he uses doves to send messages. i watched his documentary.
No, because that electricity wasn't very strong or useful for anything but hurting everything alive after a prolonged exposure. This was never about "free" electricity, more like you getting zapped was an unfortunate side effect of brute forcing global communications by artificially making lightning. You do know every tiny little lightning in the world is picked up by sensors worldwide nowdays do you? This tower was just a crude version of it.
Because its so wasteful, it also happened to electrify YOU, as in YOUR BODY. Americans are even scared of using an electric heating element attached directly in the shower head, which by the way is known in South America as
Corona shower. The little tingling that produces while you take a shower would be tame in comparison if this thing was deployed. And besides, that would have harmed the advancement of electronics, it was mutually exclusive with many more important developments.
It was sensible to stop it. As many great ideas he had, not everything he made was useful. In the late 19th century, before electronics it kinda made sense, but not soon after. Oh this would have also polluted the radio spectrum too... And if you are worried about radio waves crossing your body, this would have been many orders of magnitude more invasive. I suppose people would have to stand on wood all the time or something, as touching the ground would give you a "tingle" if this was in use...
So no, leave the fantasies aside and accept the reality; this particular idea was wrong but he refused to let it go. What remains a mystery is why the thing burned, possibly sabotage, possibly the nature of the dangerous thing. Still communications thru electricity discharges was not meant to be. And i just cannot imagine how much power each tower would have required anyway.
To Tesla we have to give the credit of the invention of alternating current, for generation and motor motion. Anything that spins transfers energy much more efficiently this way, and long copper wire distances are not a problem unlike with dc that required a power generator in every block. For good or worse Tesla was obsessed (among other things) with 3, This was the perfect number for him and everything had to be perfectly divisible by 3, hence you see 3 phases but not 4, while that is technically possible to make. Also he wanted households to use 60Hz/240v, and if you sum that gives 300, perfect.
(Turns out America does this, but they added a tap midway of the transformer coil to get 120v out and be able to use the already many electric devices made for the 120~100v DC system). Weird, but ok.
