Showing posts with label electricity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label electricity. Show all posts

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Nikola Tesla and Resonating Earth Frequencies

Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its goal the betterment of humanity--Nikola Tesla
His name is not generally celebrated or well known, but this intense man basically invented the Twentieth Century. “Like all great magicians, he has all but disappeared,” says Sidian M.S. Jones in her blog. Nikola Tesla is, however, responsible for so many things we often take for granted or think someone else invented: things like alternating current, wireless communication, the electric motor, lasers and radar, x-rays, neon, robotics, remote control, the expansion of ballistics, nuclear physics and theoretical physics, cellular technology, and even tactical space-warfare. Yet, he died alone, destitute, in a New York hotel room, ridiculed and vilified as a “mad scientist” – even a buffoon. How did this come to be?

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Riding the Waves to Power: Harnessing the Sea’s Energy


Finavera Renewables is not only making waves with its new technology—it’s hoping to ride those waves straight to the bank. Finavera is a Vancouver-based company that hopes to harness ocean waves off the coast of Oregon to produce electricity. They designed something called the AquaBuOY, an enormous steel buoy that will generate electricity from the vertical motion of waves. According to Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post, here is how it works: “The buoy, anchored three to 4.8 kilometers offshore, will convert the waves’ motion into pressurized water using large, reinforced-rubber hose pumps. As the buoy goes up the peak of the wave and down into its trough, it forces a piston in the bottom of the buoy to stretch and contract the hose pumps, pushing water through. This drives a turbine that powers a generator producing electricity, which would be shipped to shore through an undersea transmission line.”

Simple…Well, maybe not so simple…