Anaxagoras
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ORIGINAL: Anaxagoras I assume you mean the crystal receivers are brought into phase. However, the aerials are very different. One features a standard aerial near a window. The other is a tesla coil, the signal going through a completely different electrical mechanism. I don't know if this difference could cause a phase shift but it at least seems like a possibility. It's not a possibility in this case, due to the fact they are brought into phase. Both receivers are tuned to be perfectly in phase with the same test signal, then the test signal is replaced with the radio signal. The only way to make them appear to be out of phase at that point is either to be receiving a different signal on each one, or to retune one of the receivers slightly. Since the identical signal is confirmed through being the same radio station in terms of audio output, and neither of the receivers have been retuned since being brought into phase, then any measured phase or time difference is due to the whole subject that's being investigated. So this is very simple and straight forward stuff, nothing complicated involved or required at all. I appreciate the receivers are in phase but my point was with regard to the aerials inputting said recievers being very different devices. quote:
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ORIGINAL: Anaxagoras I agree that energy derived from wind, water or sun can be deemed "free" but you would of course know the investment required to harness it and maintain it is immense. It isn't quite the same as the concept of free-energy technology which requires little or no energy input (or in some cases no investment) as was discussed on here before you were about. My point is that Tesla was aware of the pre-existing technology, and aware that it wasn't free. He didn't seem to be proposing some sort of co-operative social project that could allow a community to tap into these technologies but rather a technology that provided freer energy than was previously available. I would say that "no investment" is an absolute impossibility, because the inventor has to buy the materials to build it. Money being a made up human concept having no real value or meaning in the rest of the universe, it can potentially be done without costing anything in the normal sense. However, the inventor has to invest his time/life, however you want to view it, in order to bring it about, in other words someone has to do something to make it a reality, so it always costs someone in some form. The unfortunate thing is that the masses who would benefit from any advancements don't care. Money may well be a human concept but the notion of quid pro quo may be a more universal concept. Even if money was taken out of the equation there seems to be a cost such as the inventor who sacrifices his time and energy for others, as you say. Seems there never was such a thing as a free lunch... quote:
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ORIGINAL: Anaxagoras I think you are getting into some philosophical territory here. There might need to be some sort of social contract where the people of a society pay for the technology. I suppose the closest today is government owned utilities but again they cost a vast amount to develop and maintain. Taxes go into them and still people have to pay their bills for said utility. I feel that doesn't lend credence to the theory you advance over what Tesla was talking about. You culd retort that companies would have been mostly private in Tesla's time, and that would be true but again he wouldn't be any stranger to what was truly involved in harnessing naturally available technologies like water to drive turbines etc. YMMV as always! Government owned things is asking for trouble, they don't give receipts. You'd be funding someone's dog's ensuite maid cleaning services before you know it. I mean for example that if you paid for the construction of a power station, then you don't need to pay bills any more. Rather than private organisations, or governments, the people who use the power can pay to build it. That might sound like a crazy and expensive idea, but you're going to pay for it in the end anyway, plus interest. I agree corruption is an issue but governments are there to represent the societies that elect them. If not them then who else - perhaps some sort of proxy board like a local council but they are even more rotten because whenever money changes hands (even amongst fellow investors) there is going to be issues. Its not just about building the device however but transporting all that energy with infastructure and maintaining said devices. Then there is the issue of who is entitled to use the power, say if newbies move to an area.
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