Once upon a time, there was this guy named, well… We’ll call him Mr. T for now. Anyways, this Mr. T was a downright pitiful fool. He wanted to make the world a better place, so he build and designed many wonderful things. Many of those wonderful things shaped the world in which we still presently live today. Some of those changes, however, have been used and abused in ways and for purposes that Mr. T did not fully intend.
However, Mr. T, the pitiful fool that he was, made an investment in the future of humanity. Though he spent the end of his natural life penniless, alone, and afflicted with inner torments that only the insanely ingenuous of us will ever know, he had but one resounding prophecy:
“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.”
You may know who I am referring to at this point.
Anyways, one of his goals was to build a global energy transmitter, a device that could provide completely safe power to any point around the globe without wires. And also without meters. Which therefore meant without cost.
Free energy. The mother fucking holy grail of human civilization next to a functioning warp drive.
And yes, it would be free. The ionosphere and the ground state of the globe can form some sort of a natural dipole and can be turned into a circuit or some such impressive, sciency-sounding nonsense, which can be safely tapped without fear of exhausting anything. Now, I don’t know if that’s an ignorant attitude (much like how we thought we could never pollute the ocean ’cause there was just so damn much of it compared to what a small handful of itty bitty little factories’ effluence could possibly do to it – failing to consider the exponential growth in the manufacturing sector that came about thereafter), but even if so, then for fuck sakes, let’s be a little more careful, hmm? Just because we’ve repeated history a number of times in the past doesn’t mean we’re doomed to do so again and again every god damn time indefinitely.
With that said, this global energy transmitter project of Tesla’s — Er, I mean… Ahh, fuck it, too late now — is supposed to provide enough power all around the globe for, well, everything we use electricity for today. Essentially, it would have ushered in the the information age nearly a full century ahead of time. If built now, it would still prove to be a major, major upgrade to our existing infrastructure. Only problem is that no one with a vested interest in the modern day power grid would ever fund it, given the complete and utter lack of financial gain to be made in doing so. In fact, my inner conspiracy theorist knows that such an effort would have one hell of a target for corporate espionage on it’s back at all stages of it’s development. So, even 100 years later, it would still be damn near impossible to build.
Yet here’s our chance to do so anyways:
Let’s Build a Planetary Energy Transmitter
Let’s give the greatest inventor and father of the modern age a second chance to do the good he wanted to see done while he was still alive to do so.
