The quest for Nikola Tesla’s wireless power technology

[@VergeScience]

What do you think Tesla’s biggest contribution was?

[@noobgamer-jc2ts]

Can walk in malls without having to have a battery pack

[@manujoshi4467]

EVERYTHING !!!

[@kimfigueroa2914]

AC

[@dashingdave2665]

Dream!

[@gladsongeorge7605]

Induction motor

[@barriewright2857]

A man before his time,a visonary a genius.

[@amkolar]

(Not saying this to hate) the correct way to say this phrase is "A man ahead of his time"

[@lc1777]

He was a great engineer, the greatest yet was a terrible physicst

[@xijinping-5733]

@@amkolar u understand what he said , right? So stop teaching grammar

[@GabrielCarvv]

@@amkolar Eh sort of, you could say his time was in the future with how he was incredibly innovative, brilliant, and inspiring.

[@sethrawbass]

Lol imagine being named after a car company.

[@borisdorofeev5602]

Of course Nikola Tesla was on to something. He was always on to something.

[@mr.meeseeks3238]

The earth?

[@anshupandey3582]

Indeed

[@yoshikhurazi1769]

@Gk Everything Their motivations for doing so may have been impure but they were right to not support him in this particular venture since it would not have actually worked.

[@cholst1]

Clearly, considering this looks an awful lot like his idea: vizivtechnologies.com/

[@voodooman4636]

@@yoshikhurazi1769 How can you say honestly that it wouldn't have worked? It was never pursued because Edison couldn't put a meter on it.

[@lancelovecraft5913]

The fact that I am watching this video on my mobile phone instantaneously from across the world is amazing and no small feat

[@Milo19970]

And keep in mind much much more is possible but we just won't see yet because people profit from things such as gas and fossil fuel.

[@sanojgreen8874]

Indeed

[@fkmui03]

_I dont care that they stole my idea_ _I care that they dont have any of their own_ - *TESLA* -

[@anwar4227]

Wow

[@memalabby]

"Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I have stole a lot myself. But atleast I know how to steal" - Thomas Edison

[@UiNeilSandys]

I think that's a constant for everybody who thinks that they're an educator a teacher or a leader why is Jesus on a cross why is Daniel in a pit why is Abel dead and NRA Cain free why is Moses alive and all Aaron and cattle slaughtered why is God killing all Lords.

[@elonmusk352]

I am 21st century Thomas Edison

[@elonmusk352]

@@memalabby pretty much capitalist oilsake businessman quote

[@samarthsuthar3832]

Strange How Last breath of Edison is preserved and Tesla's Laboratory is a ruin.

[@FLOODtoFIRE]

Not at all ©sarcasms

[@NigerianNinja-d6h]

@D Ouellette Wow what a thing to say, there isn't an inventor in our history that wasn't standing on the shoulders of the giants that came before.

[@TytusOx4]

So obviously strange.

[@daisuki9296]

Because capitalism is the best thing that happened to earth and decision are taken to sustain markets not nature, environment or atleast humans.. yay for planned obsoletion, corporate lobbying

[@jf3130]

@@daisuki9296 sarcasm is for immature people

[@jakep1172]

Tesla's biggest problem was he let the word"free" be uttered.

[@MrRollingstone66]

And you would think after everything else he accomplished. They should’ve given him a freebie.

[@totalmetaljacket706]

Tesla's biggest problem was the inverse square law.

[@robomaster53]

@@totalmetaljacket706 no it was not a problem for him.

[@anonamemous6865]

I think Tesla's "ambitious idea" would work because he already simulate it in his brain and it comes out as how he wanted it to

[@robomaster53]

@@anonamemous6865 Well it does work I did 25 years ago and it is being done now.

[@golatificon]

Interviewer. How does it feel to be the smartest man alive?' Einstein: 'I don't know, you'll have to ask Nikola Tesla.

[@malvahalva9610]

Oh, how I love Albert Einstein Quotes.

[@atticmuse3749]

"This story has no primary sources ... There's also the small matter that Einstein and Tesla publicly disliked and insulted each other ... When it came to post-1890s physics, Tesla was something of a crank. He denied the existence of quantum mechanics, relativity, and - strangely for someone famous for his electrical prowess - he denied the existence of electrons!" www.quora.com/Did-Einstein-really-say-I-dont-know-you-will-have-to-ask-Nikola-Tesla

[@zetahurley294]

@@atticmuse3749 too be fair a lot of scientists at the time thought quantum mechanics were BS, and relativity and elections were super theoretical at the time and had no real proof

[@elonmusk352]

@@zetahurley294 Richard Feynman would be laughing at your comment

[@DanielNyong]

Tesla was nutjob, he was an engineer not a scientist

[@AllenHanPR]

I'm no genius, I was merely born a century too early. -Tesla

[@STVGozando]

Damn, that's genius

[@happyguy2k]

Did he really say this?

[@TakumisBizarreRacingAdventure]

@@happyguy2k IDK man, nowadays people just throw in random famous names to make their comment a quote -Tesla

[@happyguy2k]

@@TakumisBizarreRacingAdventure haha thanks bro - the pope

[@supersamoan5527]

@@happyguy2k proud of you guys - ur mom

[@mnli71]

Tesla was ahead of his Time. When I was in my undergrad doing engineering, we use to have his name/ pic mentioned in almost all of the books. My 3rd year project was based on wireless tech. He is an inspiring figure. Feel sorry for the brilliant mind who at his time were not given the due respect and financial support.

[@prestongower7800]

This whole video is wrong I know way more about nikola Tesla's free electricity than these people do

[@lennys5058]

J.P. Morgan really screwed Tesla over and even advised Edison and others to avoid Tesla.

[@lorensims4846]

A true visionary. When he was a child he saw a picture of Niagara Falls and wondered if such power could be harnessed somehow. Eventually he helped George Westinghouse build the very first hydroelectric generator plant at Niagara Falls where it is still operating.

[@francoisbessing]

I visited Niagara falls a few weeks ago for the first time. I had chills and tears when I read the inscription on the Tesla statue on the Canadian side.

[@patrickschroeder2114]

He lit up a bank of 200 bulbs from 10 km away I think he understood his invention more than anyone today could

[@deus1655]

well no.

[@fuglong]

Evidence? Would love to see this

[@TheRealPots]

Exactly, that line when he stated "Tesla didn't understand his invention" threw me off.

[@RetroAP]

Yeah, even today his intelligence would still stand far above most people's comprehension. It's funny to hear people say he didn't understand his inventions.

[@JOSHUAWARREN16]

Yes!!!

[@EGMAFIA999]

He never finished HIS invention who's to say he knew of and had solutions for said problems. This video diminished his name, legacy and all the positive contributions he dedicated his life to for the people of the world. He also had countless other patented inventions. Im forever grateful for geniuses like him.

[@drygordspellweaver8761]

You're exactly right. And it's a total insult to his legacy having a couple midwits commenting on what he knew.

[@warehousejo007]

reductive entertainment. cheapens real life.

[@abayyoo4252]

Im so sorry for nikola tesla. The elites in that time who founded him was cruel

[@lilthickboi4025]

They are still cruel

[@MikinessAnalog]

Working for Edison for a time sure taught him how mean & manipulative employers can be.

[@benjaminhenderson1759]

They are worse today just look at the lies they tell and then cover up.

[@sergiothegrower]

If only the evil people of the world like the buildiberg group (group who runs the whole world) where out of earth

[@DanaKot336]

@@sergiothegrower it would've been heaven on earth. Everyone has so much potential, that way it could've been a fair market/fight.

[@extraterrestrial46]

"He didn't know that he didn't know" It's so important to quantify what you don't know

[@dr.zoidberg8666]

Most times it's not possible. The subset of unknowns called "unknown unknowns" are things that you don't even know how to ask the question yet. Some things are just so far beyond our realm of current knowledge that we have no access to them -- not even in recognizing that we don't know them.

[@fatboyRAY24]

@@dr.zoidberg8666 It’s a Black Swan world man

[@yoyoyoyo2580]

The tomahawk missile knows where it is, because it knows where it isnt. Ang by calculating where it is to where it isn't, the tomahawk can know where it is

[@hanneman4509]

I heard "didn't know what he didn't know".

[@gabrielfasola7994]

"He didn't know what he didn't know" An example of something you know that you dont know is if you don't know what is 2+2=, you know about the problem, you know it is an answer but you don't know the answer. Not knowing that you don't know would be that don't even know that you can add the numbers and make 2+2.

[@orionpax7757]

If we would have listened to this man i swear we would have gone wireless before even using wires

[@RHH57]

Yep, feel bad no one listen to nicola

[@dantejuantrelgeorge4126]

If they didn’t hide the knowledge of the pyramids you mean? Witchcraft 😂

[@Hustlate]

Well no. His idea of wireless energy couldn't work. It is explained in this video.

[@darrinseelye2091]

@@Hustlate The guy in the video said that the earth is not a good conductor which is true and that the earth is an insulator which is true however there was something not mentioned. Any insulator can become a conductor given the correct oscillations.

[@Hustlate]

@@darrinseelye2091 check the video again...

[@RchamTV]

"Thomas Edison wants to know your location"

[@congoids]

Very underrated comment

[@jf3130]

Wants to know your ideas, so he can sell it

[@antarixyaan1951]

Stupid

[@CalebHigginbotham]

Tesla: AC is better than DC Edison: *NOO* World Today: *YESS*

[@DANIELSTv]

@Nilay Arya he stole that from Tesla .

[@__dane__]

I just realized why that one weapon in Destiny 2 is named “Wardcliff Coil”

[@stevenkelby2169]

Did they spell it wrong?

[@MauricioBarragan]

@@stevenkelby2169 probably did it on purpose for copy right reasons

[@dhararry7929]

What did it do?

[@stevenkelby2169]

@@MauricioBarragan Makes sense 🍻

[@Andy-hz2ef]

@@dhararry7929 fired rockets I think

[@EduDworzecki]

The final chapter of his life is just gut-wrenching... A brilliant human being who created so much of the world we live in today who was boycotted because he was so damn selfless that greed had to trump him out of existence...

[@MrGarymola]

Yep, many great discoveries, treatments, inventions & more have been squashed by big business cabals.....some people even killed for it no joke.

[@mach1853]

he was also quite mad….

[@user-lb8do4ew6k]

Read up on Tesla more please. True, his story is sad & he was wronged in his career but his obsession with prestige, fame & living lavishly played heavily into his undoing.

[@mrviking2mcall212]

His pretending to talk to Martians and pigeons didn’t help.

[@tanmaym8780]

Then imagine the things we don't know yet and people in future will look back on... And say the same. 5:00

[@bngr_bngr]

That’s always the case in human history.

[@goodsoul6675]

Exactly.But I think back then, Tesla had a complete idea of what he was doing.

[@tylermcnally6368]

@@goodsoul6675 It's a good thing it doesn't matter what people "think" happened.

[@dr.zoidberg8666]

I can't wait to see how much we learn in the next 50 years about BCIs, spaceflight, medicine, AR/VR, & radical life extension.

[@aman_chandravanshi]

The front runner's always have to learn by Trial &Error or hit & trial

[@RoccoGuyBoiThing]

Wireless power was literally my friends thesis project for her masters. The first time she showed me a light bulb being on while sitting on a table, was rad.

[@javonteanthony7956]

Who asked ?

[@NeededByNobody]

Sweet, hope it’ll be widespread one day.

[@nova47fr]

Niceee

[@StreetSavageSRT]

That sounds awesome, and I asked!

[@wattlebough]

@@javonteanthony7956 Nobody has to ask you son.

[@muhammadhasansiddiqui6017]

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” ― Nikola Tesla He wasn't just building towers to spread electricity throughout the world, he was trying to harness the electricity and the energy that earth creates around it, which means infinite energy for the whole world

[@koena6720]

But we won’t be able to use devices cause they’d get fried from the energy surrounding us. We won’t have computers, phone etc

[@TECKNIK36]

But it's already around us and that's the point. We ain't fried. The only reason we don't have it is because it nobody can charge you for infinite energy.

[@benjaminpierce8835]

whats stopping you, draw up some papers and design some experiments. he died in 1943, not 2000bc, we have his body of research and a much much better understanding of fields. the math just doesn't work out. if you think it does, all it requires is for you to show your work.

[@randomgaming1264]

Just stop for a moment and imagine the things Tesla would do with today's advancements in technology and material science...

[@obamabinladen5055]

in today's world, he'd be bad-mouthed in the media and banned from social media. lol.

[@shatterpointgames]

The world is so saturated will great minds working on big teams that he probably wouldn't stand out

[@RainHunters]

@@shatterpointgames yeah but he is still light years ahead of the great minds and can aid them into make his ideas possible

[@oelx0]

@@obamabinladen5055 I’m guessing your referring to his views, which admittedly there is no guarantee that if he bad been born during more recent years that his views would be the same :/

[@obamabinladen5055]

@@oelx0 fair point. But I think he was beyond normal people who cannot see through the fog of modernity. The genius can see the truth regardless even if they are powerless, that's a prerequisite of being genius.

[@SJokes]

3:06 Never realised it was Nikola Tesla I was going to in Red Dead 2, where they have this exact building and Tower😂

[@glumjosh]

dude my same thought

[@AuntAlnico4]

Boy you guys are stupid. Read more and play video games less. Oh yeah, learn to play a musical instrument.

[@SJokes]

@@AuntAlnico4 stfu jenefer

[@AuntAlnico4]

I'm sorry you're feeling offended but that may be just what you need to inspire you to be better and educate yourself and become so auto didactic because clearly the public school system has failed you on that front !?

[@AuntAlnico4]

I typed up a much more positive and inspiring comment first but your tube erased it.

[@craigslitzer4857]

4:54 Tesla's later technologies explored the use of longitudinal waves through dielectric (aka insulators) and resonance rather than the now traditional transverse waves through conductors. Quite bold of you to assume he didn't know all that.

[@drygordspellweaver8761]

yeah this is a hit piece and nothing more.

[@jumpinjaxs]

When referring to insulators and conductors he also fails to indulge us the fact that capacitance is stored in the bodies of the insulators not the conductor. So insualtion effect of the air and ground exacerbates the capacitance of the earth, so when we add conductors we create natural capacitors.

[@prod.bylvwlee]

Them: Tesla was a genius Also them: He wasnt smart enough

[@alexsmith-ob3lu]

He also fails to mention that the Tesla Coil makes use of several capacitors. Capacitors act like temporary batteries; constantly charging and discharging electrical energy. Just like a pulsating heart, and that is also how the Earth magnetic fields behave.

[@robertmartin1116]

2:00 That's a small neon lamp, NOT an LED. An LED will not light using an electrical field, as it is polarity sensitive, unlike the neon lamp.

[@seasong7655]

Neon glows red. That's not a neon lamp.

[@AnarchistAaron]

@@seasong7655 I think he is referring to the generalised term 'Neon Lamps' rather than the bulb containing actual Neon gas. Green would actually be Krypton gas. He is right though an LED would not light up next to a strong magnetic field as it would not be excited unlike an gas lamp.

[@Vaibhavhayaran1]

@@seasong7655 neon lamps coated with green phosphor glows green that's exactly a neon lamp! Also, tube lights are white because they're also coated with white phosphor, otherwise tubes and cfls would glow in ultraviolet... It's that white fluorescent coating which makes them glow white! For more, search CFLs or discharge tubes in Wikipedia.

[@jamesbedford7327]

@@AnarchistAaron I think it would be the metal conductors sticking out of it that is helping generate the electricity for the small light. Could be wrong.

[@28CommanderBlack28]

Yes that is true as well as @AnarchistAarons referral to the wide use of the term "Neon Lamp" but still the physics allow the LED to light up in the mag. field of a tesla coil. A diode is polarity sensitive thats correct but as mentioned in the video the magnetic field changes (i assume with a Frequency in atleast the range weve got in our AC power grids (75 Hz in Germany). This change in magnetic field then induces an also AC current in the metal connectors of the diode (if those were to be shorted). But the diode will only allow for a closed circuit one way thus you could measure a DC current thats pulsating in strength because it's constantly collpasing due to the polarity change. I assume the pulsating is just too fast to see with the eye/camera here. (Maybe I'm wrong tho idk - im only a mechanical engineer not an electro engineer)

[@seigeshorts9486]

“Passed away” big companies, and oil didn’t want the potential to be set free.

[@seanlongwood7484]

Not only oil. That’s how people are controlled

[@kingk2405]

Stay with science . Keep your stupid conspiracy theories where they should stay ...with rubbish .

[@picketfenced5771]

@@kingk2405 Shutting down different variables without taking the time to think them through and dig deep is the mark of stupidity. Sometimes the most wild thoughts have some truth in them.

[@kingk2405]

@@picketfenced5771 Some scams managed to go through like homeopathy so there is hope .

[@moslem8656]

oil its behind all the war in middle east

[@KMGaming756]

These guys who wouldn’t be able to begin to understand what Tesla understood are trying to say Tesla was wrong and didn’t know the science lol.. the world still hasn’t caught up with Tesla

[@lamandigital]

"He didn't know what He didn't know" i live on that kind of phrase.

[@Vaibhavhayaran1]

2:04 yeah, that's definitely NOT an LED... It's a neon indicator lamp.

[@muflah]

Yeah, he didn't know what he was holding.

[@user255]

I was making this same comment... However, do you happen to know what is the gas mix that makes it green?

[@francescotiboni397]

@@user255 the things that makes it green is the fluorescent paint on the inside of the glass

[@user255]

@@francescotiboni397 Yes, it seems they don't have neon at all. Just Hg vapour.

[@Firecul]

@@user255 Allow me, Fran literally just made a video on this subject kzbin.info/www/bejne/baGuhZ98m7WUgtk

[@barbezph]

Every time i think to Tesla, i get goose bumps. I really look up to this man, he is one of the most important scientists who changed our lives. Many of us can’t understand what are we doing right now... we’re talking, messaging, calling each other using wireless power. This is why, in the future i wanna become an Engineer. I’m really into it, and getting goose bumps when i think to tesla coil, Ac, is only the tip of the iceberg. Learn from your heroes

[@BlakeTedKord]

Summary of vid: it’s hard and damn near impossible and we haven’t found a technique yet.

[@bennybradshaw9904]

Of it was true they wouldn’t let that happen free electricity they want that money so the never even try it

[@Alejandro-rh4ck]

I watched a few seconds of this video just to come to the same conclusion. I spent more time reading the comments and more time writing this comment then I did on the vid.

[@carlosdgutierrez6570]

@@bennybradshaw9904 yeah, you aren't getting free electricity even if it were possible. Electricity needs to be generated first and then use to power the tower. Who is going to pay for the instalation and operation of those generators? The users, you would getting charged a monthly tariff just like you pay your internet or even better, a permanent income tax to cover your electrical expenses.

[@ikkonoishi]

@@carlosdgutierrez6570 I think he was talking about electrons. They don't want to cooperate.

[@lukiepoole9254]

Earth transmission is simple and is already done. Volts per second, tesla wave. Energy creation is another thing. Possible but only if you accept first thermodynamics law is fraudulent first. Destruction of the mental barrier is important.

[@sumnikoa]

Kinda confused they didn’t bring up Ancient Egypt as it was a huge drive to his work. Also that the sky and earth actually push and pull tons of energy depending on frequency and ions.

[@mach1853]

ancient Egypt had zero, zilch, nulla input on any of Tesla‘s inventions whatsoever, I challenge you to produce a shred of evidence to support your assertion….

[@user-eu2nf5sn6g]

Imagine just standing in the middle of the street With a pack of noodles And going back inside with cooked noodles

[@nicbell8090]

I like the idea, but then I think I’d just want a microwave with less steps lol

[@incognitotorpedo42]

You'd also be going back inside with a cooked brain.

[@FhangMedia]

@@incognitotorpedo42 you obviously dont realize the same types of waves that would be coming off those towers are a different frequency of radio waves. LED light bulbs put out more radiation then radio waves and an LED light bulb isn't cooking anything.

[@Conner._.Anderson]

Thats not how wireless power works exactly

[@Conner._.Anderson]

You could achieve that result with targeted microwaves like a magnetron gun.

[@VergeScience]

Hey all, as some have helpfully pointed out, the light at 2:05 is a small neon lamp, not an LED. Also, around 2:30, we meant to say that as you move away from the Tesla coil, the “power” drops off, not the “field.” Thanks for the notes!

[@JCCamp]

Can you tell me where to get that Tesla coil? Cool factor is off the charts!

[@nickt1016]

Me watching this and recognizing that building and looking it up and realizing that I live in that town

[@sevenmilewhite1407]

Neat

[@RADIUM108]

IV never seen such a attractive Tesla coil

[@joeozzie1]

You can buy it at the Tesla Science Center Wardenclyffe website shop.teslasciencecenter.org/collections/kits-gadgets/products/musical-tesla-coil

[@gerrevandermeer7500]

an

[@Muonium1]

Be sure to turn it on directly next to your laptop when you get it like the geniuses who made this video did here.

[@bkztopkilla09]

It's so disgusting this man spent years contributing to society and yet he died living from a hotel.. this world is sick..

[@JewelFornillas]

Thats why if have a chance to kill all of the people on our planet. Ill do it

[@hdot1254]

@@JewelFornillas the elite you mean?

[@bkztopkilla09]

@@JewelFornillas 🤣🤣🤣🤣 dark minded I see.. I use to think like that

[@King_of_Africa]

@@bkztopkilla09 We must cleanse this planet from the toxic inhabitants known as humans 🌀

[@SupraNene]

@@hdot1254 what is this about the elite and what is this about the guy dieing? I’m late I just read comments

[@StEvUgnIn]

"Earth and Sky are good insulators" - For earth, it depends on the frequency. The sky is charged in electricity, see the ionosphere.

[@FhangMedia]

And the tower was designed to utilize the ionosphere to deliver the power, which was conveniently ignored in this video.

[@Conner._.Anderson]

@@FhangMedia yes this video did avoid the true facts

[@StEvUgnIn]

@@FhangMedia Yes, space researchers keep high hope to harvest energy from the ionosphere

[@StEvUgnIn]

@I love you but Yes, that's why lightning creates plane crash sometimes then

[@siddharthnandi3995]

Frequency of what?

[@lukhmanthufile]

I wish I could time travel, bring him here and tell him that what he did was not useless, that the ideas in his mind were perfect with respect to what the world knew at his time

[@priceless2353]

Not a single mention on how the banking cartel suffocated him financially; let’s thank John Pierpont Morgan and his handlers for that.

[@alexsloan4976]

@J. Blabla no

[@crash6674]

oy vay what do you mean free energy, its anudda shoah

[@olivierb9716]

@J. Blabla because your argumentation was great???

[@olivierb9716]

another misconception and error. when vice told to you about the physics limitations about tesla ideas.

[@void1852]

Yeah ignore the idiots here. PhD consensus nut jobs never contribute anything to this world, they actually send us backwards. People like Kary Mullis and Oleg Jefimenko defy the consensus and look at what they’ve done for us. Tesla’s tower was shut down because his biggest investor died on the titanic. Soul reason why his tower was discontinued. These PhD morons think he was working with flawed physics but their screws are a bit loose. The irony of this video is Tesla knew the Earth was an insulator. Today Tesla would be calling our insulators ‘capacitors’.

[@ShadowTheHedgehogCZ]

When I was at high-school, our electro engeneering teacher mentioned wireless electricity. But he said that if it worked, it would fry any living being that would ever get in the way of the wireless transmitors. Imagine the super high voltage the power plants generate. All that power that is transmitted through those massive wires would instead be transmitted by the air. Would you want to stand in it?

[@engineersmith]

A comment about this topic that makes sense. Thank you

[@censoredeveryday3320]

Even worse is the electric and magnetic field around the wires

[@leobuana7430]

@@censoredeveryday3320 and the same can't be said regarding Tesla tower as well?

[@yontron3692]

There’s more to it But you need to dig

[@EvanBoyar]

You guys messed up your explanation. The changing magnetic field is produced by the changing electric field passed through the primary coil (the thick, little one on the bottom). This changing magnetic field induces a changing electric field in the secondary coil (the thin, tall tower). Because the secondary coil is open at the top (the spike), it sprays out charge and ionizes the air, meaning the air acts more like a conductor. When you held up that fluorescent tube, you grounded it, allowing charge to flow from the coil, through the now conductive air, through the tube, through you, and then through the ground (and also the reverse is true).

[@pandegaabyanz3719]

Tesla is a great scientist and a genius, but I think he's unlucky in his life

[@Wiicubemaster]

Idk about unlucky, theres a ton of examples of great engineers from that time being awful business men. Bentley Brothers from the car company as an example.

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

Brilliant man, terrible enterpreneur. Like, really terrible...

[@benjamin7114]

He was just awful at socialite business man ... something Elon Musk is great at, despite just re-inventing what already exists.

[@Nora_Peri]

@@benjamin7114 Name what existed before Elon Musk?

[@proger1960]

I like Elon but yeah he's a great innovator but not inventor. A lot of his fans get innovation mixed up with inventions. Also don't forget Elon's a business man

[@vmfbrkn9889]

I remember being on a discord call with some friends and talking about billion dollar ideas or inventions. I recall talking how wireless charging for phones(EX: If you enter this area, you phone will automatically charge) because I saw a video about wireless LED lights. My friends laughed and said it was impossible.

[@poendie835]

Well its not impossible but its very unlikely and expensive (and maybe dangerous), so it wil probably take a few decades before we find a loophole to make it practical.

[@vmfbrkn9889]

@@poendie835 Yeah most definitely. Maybe a time limiter so it'll only charge for a certain amount of time or have an app that knows what battery percentage you're at and will automatically turn off and notifies you when done.

[@TypicalBlox]

Discord came out in 2015, by then wireless chargers were already out and chargers that charge your device when you enter a room were in the concept phase, you didn't invent anything lol

[@avisheksinha7070]

He was a visionary. The failure of the tower is only a failure if you think so which is an insult to the experimental effort by such a great mind. It was indeed an attempt he made to make the world a wireless place. Thank you Tesla. You're an inspiration.

[@patrik5123]

3:10 That's... a hexagon. Because it's the bestagon.

[@carlo_m]

Bees. Jupiter. Strength

[@midnight8341]

All praise the hexagon! 'cause they're the bestagon!

[@Hygix_]

I know this reference....

[@Hygix_]

But still, hexagon....is the bestagon

[@DaveWhiteInYoFace]

Thanks Gray

[@victorbojorquez1575]

Nikola tesla understood electricity in a very different way than anyone else. His theory on how electricity functions are completely different from how we think it works now. But just look at everything he created form the electric motor to the ac power plants. he made the modern world possible. I think he had the understanding than anyone

[@gggavin]

Tesla being the creator of todays wireless technology, maybe he knew something we didn't know

[@Skunkwurx]

No, he isn't the creator of todays wireless tech.

[@matsurisband-aids4712]

I think you're mistaking wireless technology with wireless power transmission

[@incognitotorpedo42]

@@matsurisband-aids4712 And he didn't even do wireless power transmission in any practical sense.

[@4rzaluz]

@@incognitotorpedo42 He performed wireless energy transmission to cold lights ..when the inefficient lightbulb wasnt even mainstream.

[@theRhinsRanger]

He did pass on free energy, his knowledge, we use it freely.

[@williamhenry0834]

Sadly life had put him in the wrong time

[@lukiepoole9254]

Tesla never passed on free energy. He didn't spent time on it. He focused on harnessing earth's electricity by forming a cycle from atmospher to ground and back up. Since atmospheric electricity is from the sun, the re-bounce from atmosphere to the ground would have been amplified.

[@MrBaguette-po9ue]

not quite

[@MrBaguette-po9ue]

almost but no quite

[@lukiepoole9254]

@I love you but You think he did it electromagnetic way? He did it longitudinal way which is NON-HERTZIAN and FASTER THAN LIGHT. When mainstream science is a massive fraud.

[@ultralaggerREV1]

I’m a student at SDSU and I have emailed professor Chris Mi because his research for wireless energy is just a burning passion and students can join and help.

[@sbcap3809]

A room outfitted with a metal skeleton, wouldn’t that be a sort of Faraday cage?

[@smoothinterceptor8452]

Its called Tesla Cage

[@rafaeterna1081]

probably, to prevent energy loss or increase efficiency maybe ?

[@Denastus]

Hey. They (The Verge) failed to know the difference between an anti static wrist strap and a Live Strong wrist band. Of course they don't know what a Faraday cage is.

[@goodboi42]

@@Denastus "He's not fighting static! He's fighting cancer!"

[@Skunkwurx]

@@goodboi42 Thats got a few years left at least haha

[@aanishsharma1895]

Nikola Tesla was scientist who deserved respect he's the best

[@jersoncordova7067]

I can imagine Nikola Tesla being amazed about the recent discovery in physics and continue his inventions if he were revived today.

[@alainterieur794]

Wow, this video answers questions I had for years! Thank you for doing it!

[@dipsanaroy1658]

Yes mine too 🥺

[@jhirai20]

Hey you guys should do a video on Deep Mind AI cracking the protein sequence to folding code. The applications are immense!

[@avienxyz]

That seems like an interesting topic..

[@ForTheDivi]

Jeff you do a video with a whiteboard or something

[@5541james]

This needs to be bought and turned into a national historical site. It’s incredible it’s not already or owned by someone who plans to make a museum.

[@erikburman530]

That’s not an “LED,” it’s a neon bulb with green phosphor.

[@thatyoutubeguy7583]

Fr

[@dipsanaroy1658]

Good observation

[@4LM3R]

Was looking for this. Glad im not the only one who noticed it

[@staplesyo2391]

That man was one of the most incredible human being we have had to date.

[@4thDimensions9902]

"When people look up to scientists the way they do to musicians and actors,our civilization will jump to the next level"

[@Alexzw92]

9:10 Honestly I'm just glad you only mentioned Tesla, and Not that fraud company Nikola.

[@TheOsnovis]

You should visit his Museum where his Urne is btw. in Belgrade, Serbia. 🇷🇸

[@tonydmty1234567]

Nikola Tesla, a great Serbian jewel. ";-)

[@incognitotorpedo42]

Oh, his "Urn" (the usual English spelling), where his ashes are stored. I first read that as "Urine" and thought "wow, that's weird. Maybe there are still some cells in it and we could clone him." My grandfather is from a village near the border of Serbia.

[@Movie.reviews-s]

Tesla was so genius that even if he died we still live in his time and could not figure out wireless electricity or transmission. He is man from future . He belongs to far beyond our century

[@emmanuelgutierrez8616]

Elon called it Tesla, because he's using his induction motor design, not because its JUST an electric company. Just giving him more credit to his design. Today they've reinvented the motor, but its start came from Nikola Tesla.

[@SGMando]

Actually previous founders called it tesla

[@fahim102]

I will always find it dystopian that a company with a net-worth of billions named itself after a socialist.

[@CaedenV]

@@fahim102 Large companies are the way Americans will do socialism. Our government will not tax the rich to give to the poor, but our mega corporations will turn the poor into a product and pay them enough for the basic services that they need to barely survive until they are no longer useful to the algorithm.

[@fahim102]

@@CaedenV Not disagreeing with you, my original comment was merely about pointing out the irony of the Tesla company's name.

[@jensenraylight8011]

so, you assumed that the tesla car company is named after the famous Nikola Tesla? it could be from Tesla the gold miner, or Tesla the corn farmer, or even Tesla the garbageman, the possibilities are infinite here

[@DenisShch93]

Why to use a recording of professor's Mi speaking through your screen when you can make actual video of him answering questions? Barely hear what he's saying.

[@halomass1879]

Dr Raymond Paul Phillips, he was a student of Nikola Tesla. Dr.Phillips patented and invented the first phone to make wireless calls 3 miles from it's base. My grandfather studied his mentor Nikola Tesla and completed the invention.

[@macdaddyo7970]

“It represents my life's work. This is the key to the future. I'm limited by the technology of my time, but one day you'll figure this out. And when you do, you will change the world.” - Howard Stark

[@whitenoise509]

If this is true then how did he (insert conspiracy theory here)? You can't explain that!

[@clintgolub1751]

😂

[@incognitotorpedo42]

Exactly! This is what the MeDiA eLiTeS don't want you to know!

[@lukiepoole9254]

Kekek. Fools won't ever question what they learnt.

[@sheldonhaynes4915]

The earth is a great conductor. To test this idea, simply take one L1 wire outside with you say 100 feet, and then for the Ground wire, stick a nail in the ground. You will be able to draw the full current of the wires using earth as the neutral wire. I knew this in 4th grade.

[@bazoo513]

A very good, cool-headed video. However, it should be noted that theoretical work by Maxwell and experimental by Hertz were decades before Tesla's giant tower. Physicists _did_ know a bit about electromagnetism by then.

[@bazoo513]

@Muckin 4on Initially, yes - he found experiments confirming EM waves to be too difficult to set up. But in the following decades he advanced to remote receivers, demonstration of polarization etc.

[@delerium2k]

Low freq ‘telluric’ waves travel very well through the earth. There’s a reason we ‘ground’ our electronics. Tesla is *still* ahead of the times

[@absolute062]

We dont ground to conduct

[@Skunkwurx]

Yea thats not why we ground things.... at all

[@delerium2k]

@@Skunkwurx obviously we don't ground to transmit power... the point is the ground is conductive and we use it as a conductor all the time. Achieving transmission through the earth is dependent on frequency of transmission (you need ELF, massive wavelengths). Telluric waves are a natural phenomenon -- Tesla understood this, and to this day we say he was naive. We're the naive ones.

[@Skunkwurx]

@@delerium2k except we aren't. Power through the ground is still subject to the same laws that govern power over the air. You have to contend with the inverse square law. If you double the distance, you need 4 times the power. Triple the distance and you need 9 times the power. Its not that it doesnt work, its just a waste of time.

[@ENERGYLIBERATIONARMY-Tao]

Nikola Tesla's pursuit of advancing electrical power was met with setbacks, including the devastating loss of his laboratory in 1895. As a result, Tesla felt compelled to protect his knowledge by encrypting it, leaving his groundbreaking discoveries shrouded in mystery. However, among his many works, Tesla regarded his article "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy" as the most significant one he had ever written. As a dedicated Tesla researcher for the past two decades, I believed I had extracted the utmost value from this crucial article. However, after encountering Ernst Willem van den Bergh's work, I must acknowledge that he has unearthed a wealth of information that surpasses my previous understanding. Van den Bergh has seemingly deciphered the elusive "Tesla-Code," offering profound insights into Tesla's work and his extraordinary mind.

[@arjund.4817]

That man was always onto something

[@lastflowers2401]

"He didn't understand his invention the way we do now." HE INVENTED IT. This hubris is why we must wait for another Tesla.

[@amxboxer]

Doesn't mean he fundamentally understood the mechanisms behind it. Like the Wright brothers. Even Einstein, while he had the insight to come up with general relativity, many of the implications were discovered by other physicists, some of which he even considered ridiculous at first.

[@daos3300]

that's not hubris, that's 100 years of technological progress and hindsight. as stated, he didn't know what he didn't know.

[@svanman614]

I feel like this video was based more on what they want you to believe about Tesla, than what was really true.

[@Frog_Mario]

Imagine what Nikola Tesla could do with modern day technology

[@SoupLegion]

considering we are still using his technology today... he's blow our minds, likely

[@nopenope7119]

@@SoupLegion underrated comment

[@elianirenge7198]

He would already have been the first to create energy out of nothing lol

[@lukiepoole9254]

@@elianirenge7198 It's already been done a long time ago. There are many techniques but the one true technique is to reverse lenz's law. The answer is hidden in plain sights. "What happens when both windings of a transformer are overexcited?" Engineers are none other than being puppets for the evil.

[@elianirenge7198]

@@lukiepoole9254 send a link to a an article or a video that talks about that

[@galacticcore0796]

The only time the Wharncliff tower actually worked was when Tesla had to blow up a alien ship hovering over New York

[@quagmiretoiletgaming]

yes makes sense

[@alcejaylos.4257]

Yeah, was there when it happened, good times.

[@cptthrawn1841]

Oh yeah, I was dodging debris left and ri........wait,.. hold on someone at my front door,....few guys in black suits and shades,.. pencil thin perv staches and buzzcuts........................................................Aw snap Guys, turns out were not supposed to be talking about this...🤭.. 👊😵..🤛💩👖..🤛🤮.🥴.🤕..🤐

[@davidsherman7868]

In my humble opinion, we would be so much more advanced as an electricity driven society, than we are now. Since Nikola Tesla's passing, we have developed by leaps and bounds, thanks to him and his inventions. I'm still wondering how many inventions Thomas Edison, on his own, not something someone else came up with, that he took credit for, that we still use today.

[@DarkAngelEU]

This is the kind of Tesla content I'm looking for: explaining in a scientific manner why he wasn't able to progress, not these stupid biodocu's where they simple say "oh, he went mad!" and don't even care to explain. Tesla was a genius, but sadly as the one physicist says, a product of his time. If he were alive today, he'd just be wondering what came next like the rest of us, because everything he wanted to accomplish was already in place. Every time a society accomplishes great technological innovations, they search for applications of the new technology. It's only when the technology is mastered, that the society starts looking for a new one, if they haven't discovered anything by accident. I'm "afraid", for the lack of a better term, we'll be discovering new applications of electricity and digital technology for a very long time before we even start considering what should come next.

[@castbreeder1]

this is joke and pure degradation of Tesla. nothing to looking for

[@przemysawpawlinski5536]

Inverse-square law and it's the end of Tesla's free energy.

[@huangjunwei7211]

Not "free energy" It is "wireless energy"

[@RED40HOURS]

@@huangjunwei7211 big difference right there

[@NoBody-wp2bf]

Don't tell the SETI people either; they're convinced aliens are watching our tv shows.

[@lukiepoole9254]

Tesla waves are faster than light, nothing to do with inverse-square law. The REAL free energy is hidden in plain sight to the point it is not thought of by anyone as all have been brainwashed not to question what they learnt since young.

[@huangjunwei7211]

@æþyr nice joke :P

[@Blackbelt_97]

Tesla knew full well how his tech worked..

[@eljangoolak]

we can make the air a conductor through ionizing lasers/radiation though... so technically it is possible to transfer electricity by shooting an ionizing laser(perhaps in the X-ray range) followed by a quick burst of electricity that basically follows it through the ionized path in the air. also if we take some lessons from particle colliders we can send a pulse that precedes the main pulse, kind of creating a wiplash effect in the plasma which accelerates the speed of transfer

[@Tezrak0]

2:30 "when you double the distance, the field drops off by a power of 6." Shouldn't that be a power of 4 as per the inverse square law? Or are there other factors that cause the drop-off to happen even faster?

[@dennistotzke235]

I was suprised by that as well. If I remember correctly the energy is inversely correlated with the square of the radius. (could also be r^3 bit even than it would be an eighth..)

[@rohitrathnam6057]

Yeah, that's what I think too.. Also, trying not to be too nitpicky, but "power of 4" would imply exp(4), I think the right term is 'factor'.

[@criodanomurchu1075]

I was also troubled by this. By 6 makes me think they used r^-3 and multiplied 2x3 instead of 2x2x2

[@delzabrown]

I was thinking the same thing. I thought it would hold to the inverse square. If you have an answer tag me

[@bastiens5219]

@@delzabrown Definitly power of 6, dipole fields decrease with the cube of the distance. Power transmitted is proportional with the square of the field strengh

[@kemarin2237]

What makes Tesla really really really special is his vision through some simple physic phenomenons.

[@biffgee6797]

I wonder if Tesla's power transfer Tower was in line with the Earth's energy grid lines.

[@vastadmist2258]

Could be.

[@abdullahmaqsood5348]

Just Imagine what our world would transform into , if all of our hero scientists were given just 1 more year to live among us today , May their souls Rest in Peace ❤️

[@deus1655]

pretty much the same.

[@alyssareyes9340]

oh shiii- man, i’ve been amazed and surprised by many discoveries and advancements of science, but damn, when that flourescent just lit up, i’m completely and genuinely blown away that it ACTUALLY showed on my face - a real and genuine awe-struck reaction to science.

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

Verge Science: Tesla Coil. Me: Red Alert 2!

[@DrumToTheBassWoop]

Kirov, reporting.

[@makatron]

@@DrumToTheBassWoop helium mix optimal

[@makatron]

Loved how tesla troopers could overpower thst tesla coil

[@90percenthuman39]

With this rate of tech the wireless anti-static bracelets you have might actually become real

[@WiGLInc]

WiGL is a smart, long-distance, wireless power company. WiGL, Wireless-electric Grid Local Air Networks (pronounced “wiggle”), is a new technology developed for the Department of Defense for touchless wireless power.

[@tristanosborne6994]

I was just wondering why no one had followed up the Wardenclyffe experiment earlier today! That's so weird.

[@dhararry7929]

Because it's based on faulty science.

[@thedankgoat7972]

A company in texas built what is essentially a tesla tower, don't know if anything has happened with it.

[@JoseRodriguez-dx4pb]

Money, it's all about money, if they can't profit off of it, it's not worth their time or money 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@bodyofalegend]

@@dhararry7929 it’s unfortunate but true

[@floatthecreek]

The inverse square law.

[@Anti_terrorist_organisation]

He was such a jenius but nobody cared about his work & passion 😔

[@Risk-on1]

Genius*

[@dwarfinside]

Guy in the horrendous suit turned out to be incredibly rational in his delivery of the facts. Didn't see that coming.

[@christiandominiclangreo5101]

Robert Angier : Price is not an object. Nikola Tesla : Perhaps not, but have you considered the "COST"? - The Prestige (2006)

[@williejohnson5172]

Tesla fully understood his invention. It's you who have no clue. (Nice Tesla coil though)

[@richardpoldver36]

Once a newspaper was talking to Albert Einstein and asked: what is it like to be the smartest man on the planet?... he replyed: you should ask nikola tesla.

[@siegeperilous9371]

I'd be interested to see your take Zenneck Surface Wave technology and Viziv Technologies.

[@happyatheists9361]

The father of the modern(and beyond) age.🙏🙏🙏

[@rajivpokharel88]

Immediately here after Mi's announcement of "Mi Air Charge", such a development it has been! Tesla was one of the greatest person ever lived, can be idolized pretty much as God.

[@rohaanmanzoor3268]

Tesla with modern day investors can literally push the world forward single handedly

[@tylermcnally6368]

You know there are people on the planet today who are just as smart as Telsa and some even more so... What makes you think Tesla could do any better? He just got there first.

[@danielstudart2062]

@@tylermcnally6368 Creativity

[@jamesbizs]

@@danielstudart2062 so no one is creative today? We have 4 times as many people. For more of them are educated and have access to limitless amounts of information and ability to communicate to any of those said people.