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Our civilization
is built on AC power,
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remote control, and radio waves
for wireless communications.
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Imagine our lives without
these technologies,
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without the internet
and mobile telephones
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and the connectedness
that they have brought us.
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Looking back at the beginning
of the 20th century,
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the technologies that
shape our lives today
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were invented by
one inspired man.
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- He pretty much
single handedly jump started
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the Second Industrial
Revolution.
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He was called 'the inventor
of the 20th century' back then
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when the 20th century started.
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And then, all of a sudden,
we all forgot about him
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and he got excluded from
school books and everything.
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My name is Nikola Tesla.
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Tesla believed
that electric energy
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should be considered the same
as the air that we breathe
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because, in nature, it is
present in unlimited quantities.
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- Tesla's articles
were published
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and republished by many
magazines and newspapers.
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He was widely quoted,
widely followed.
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He was, here in New York,
socially very well-known.
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He was the ultimate gentleman;
a black tie, white tailed.
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He was a great admirer
of Sarah Bernhardt
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and other New York figures.
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He was known on
the social scene.
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Tesla was a combination
of a gentleman,
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a combination of society
figure, scientist,
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and a great engineer.
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- Well, during Tesla's life,
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he was one of the most famous
people in the entire world.
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His fame for electricity
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overshadowed Thomas
Edison's fame, I'm sure.
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When all
the newspapers were
only writing about
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Nikola Tesla's new
inventions and achievements,
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Edison began to execute animals
on the streets of New York
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to show how dangerous Nikola
Tesla's electricity was.
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Edison's hatred of Nikola Tesla
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and his electromagnetic
motor got him to the point
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where Edison's company
invented the electric chair.
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If you to find
the secrets of the universe,
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think in terms of energy,
frequency, and vibration.
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But his biggest
project was to provide us
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with free wireless power
transmission on Earth.
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The project was called
Wardenclyffe Tower.
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He is enigmatic.
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He is mysterious.
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His ideas are mysterious.
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And that, of course, also
perhaps made the committee
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that is more traditional in
its view of scientific problems
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and so on that they thought,
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"Interesting, but
let's wait and see."
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But his vision for the
system of communication
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is, for example, exactly
what we're doing.
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- Nikola Tesla was given
this strange diagnosis
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by many writers.
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I disagree with them.
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As a psychologist, I get
to see a lot of people
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with obsessive-compulsive
disorder.
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Nikola Tesla, for example,
I would say, was a creative.
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He was somebody who
could get so involved
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in all of his projects that
he would be consumed totally.
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And whenever a creative
person is creating,
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they're creating
something totally new,
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something totally different.
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It's an escape.
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It's not the reality we know.
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When he talked about
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you might be able to
carry this instrument
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in your pocket or your hands
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and you could see a loved
one from way across the world
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and talk to them
at the same time
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and put it in your back
pocket, people at that time,
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they weren't ready for
his kind of genius.
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This was a man who was known
to speak over six languages.
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This was a man who
was very well-read.
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You need a certain
kinda divergent thinking
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in order for you to be able
to think outside the box.
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- In the year 1900,
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he forecast that you and
I would have a cell phone.
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In 1900, he knew that you
could wirelessly communicate
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and he knew that at some point
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not only would you wirelessly
be able to communicate voice
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but you could wirelessly be
able to communicate pictures.
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He saw all of that
going into the future.
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In his patent
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A Method of Signaling
and System of Signaling,
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he describes in 1900 how
messages of information
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should be wirelessly
transferred with radio waves,
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but that electric waves
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would not be electromagnetic,
as hertz waves.
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His observation and work
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was to make the transmission
of information highly private,
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that messages could
not be interfered with,
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intercepted, or
disturbed in any way,
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which is not the case
with Hertzian waves.
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- Transmission of
electricity by wirelessly
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is theoretically possible.
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There are all kinds of
practical issues with it.
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There are political
issues with it.
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We already have people
who are very concerned
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about the electromagnetics
given off by cell phones.
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The wavelengths
of the Tesla frequencies
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are extremely long, so
there's no way that your body
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can get any
electromagnetism out of it.
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It's just the electrostatic.
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The electrostatic is
very closely related
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to the orgone or the life force.
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- Tesla's frequencies, they
behave in a different manner.
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They actually have been
found to be beneficial
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and were used for medical
purposes for quite some time.
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But that's how Tesla
continued to make money
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after the Wardenclyffe dive,
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because he worked for these
electrotherapeutic companies
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like Fischer that made all
of these Tesla transmitters
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and then they would apply
the frequencies to the body
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and they were found
to be beneficial
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because they're a different
type of frequency.
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- I mean, they had nothing
to work with hardly.
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They had some wire and silk wrap
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and some wooden blocks
and some brass screws,
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and they built this whole
theory and proved everything
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with virtually nothing.
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Now, what kind of
intellect can do that?
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There's nobody on the planet
today that could do that.
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Outta six billion
people, there isn't one.
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- He didn't sleep much.
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He didn't need to sleep
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because he was
nurtured by the prana,
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by life energy, by frequency,
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and that's what
he was all about.
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He was all about frequency.
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Everything in our reality
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has its own frequency.
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As we know, we can see
between 440 and 770 terahertz.
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We hear between 20
and 20,000 hertz.
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Our heart beats at a
frequency of 1 to 1.67 hertz.
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And our brain functions
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at a frequency between
0.5 and 30 hertz.
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The higher the
frequency of the brain,
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the more alert or
stressed we are.
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Now, Earth also has
its own frequency,
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and it is the same as our brain
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when it is in a state of
telepathic possibilities
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or state of global awareness.
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It is 7.83 hertz.
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The gift of
mental power comes from God,
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divine being.
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And if we concentrate
our minds on the truth,
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we become in-tune
with this great power.
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Nikola Tesla's
father was an orthodox priest,
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and the same fate was
waiting for young Tesla.
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However, his mother
inspired him to invent.
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She came from an
inventor's family
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and was an inventor herself.
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From an early age,
she played memory
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and telepathic games
with her children.
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That is how she encouraged
a special kind of thinking.
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At a very young age, he
constructed a water turbine.
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He was fascinated by
description of Niagara Falls
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that he found in books.
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In his imagination,
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he pictured a big wheel
powered by the falls.
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30 years later, his childhood
dream would come true.
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- All of his
inventions would come,
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he said it would come with
a flash of light in his head
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and a big migraine, and then
he would see the device.
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He was able to
visualize the device
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that came with this flash
of light in such detail
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that he didn't need to make
a blueprint to build it.
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- And he'd see the schematic
and that's all he'd see.
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He couldn't see people, he
couldn't see anything else
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until that went away.
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But it was frozen in
his mind long enough
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for once it went away, he
could sit down and draw it out,
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all the detail,
dimensions, everything.
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It was really weird, but in
his way, he used it as a tool.
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- His thought, his
thinking, his genius
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rose above his origin
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and the tiny little village
in which he was born
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and the country in
which we were born,
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a country that I would say is
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an unhappy place historically.
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I am equally
proud of my Serbian origin
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and Croatian homeland.
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- He invented radio
control robots
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so that people wouldn't
have to go to war anymore.
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They could just send the
machines to fight each other!
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But that didn't work.
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But he was not naive about
the problems of human nature
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and what humanity as a
group has to go through
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to emerge at this higher
level of maturity.
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His big dream
was that planet Earth
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will be endless source of energy
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and we will not
need any gas, oil,
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any corporations, any
wars, and all the bullshit.
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- So, in his vision,
it would be a society
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that's not driven
by material gain.
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It would be a society that's
driven by connecting mankind
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to the highest possible level.
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- But I think the kind
of ideal world he had,
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we are not ready for it.
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We have to change consciousness.
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It's all about how the human
can change his consciousness.
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By changing consciousness,
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we can change the
rest of the world
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with our own consciousness.
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- Because consciousness
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is not something you're
manufacturing in your brain.
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Consciousness is your brain
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and your whole body
acting as an antenna,
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tapping into this
field of information.
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And I think Tesla knew this
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and he was very, very
protective of that field
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so that he could download
incredible information
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and apply it to technologies.
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- I think a lot of this
personality of Tesla,
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that he tells the press that
he's counting his silverware,
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he's polishing this, he
doesn't wanna shake hands,
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he doesn't like pearls,
things of that nature.
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And I thought, "This is his way
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"of fooling the
press a little bit."
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- When you become aware
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that you're bathing in
this field of information
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and you become better
at controlling it
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and expecting and extracting
information from it,
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you become more sensitive
to what's around you,
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the people that are around you,
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what they're thinking, how
they influence the field.
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And that's why he didn't like
to shake hands with people.
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He was very aware
of any energies
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that were not of the highest.
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When he was trying
to concentrate
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and download the information,
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he didn't necessarily
want somebody around him
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that was kind of
messing up the field.
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- That's also the reason why
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he probably didn't wanna get
involved with a woman ever,
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because he could see
the patterns of that
into the future.
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He could see what
it would entail
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for him to have a
relationship with,
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any kind of intimate
relationship with a person,
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how much it would take
away from inventing
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all the stuff that we
now take for granted.
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- He castrated himself
not to have sex,
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'cause all this energy, he
will dedicate it to science.
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I think, when you are
such a degree of genius,
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solitude is something
that you have to deal with
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all your life.
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My brain is only a receiver.
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In the universe, there is a core
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from which we obtain knowledge,
strength, and inspiration.
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I have not penetrated into
the secrets of this core,
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but I know that it exists.
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- Yeah, basically,
he was the first one
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to come up with a
workable radio system.
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Radio, as he usually
conceived it,
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was probably very similar
to what we do now,
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but he realized very quickly
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that it's extremely inefficient.
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And you have to understand
that Tesla's focus
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was totally on efficiency
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of the energy economics
of the system.
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His electrodes were
actually virtual antenna
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that was strictly for
the storage of charge
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on a temporary basis.
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The actual signal was
sent into the Earth.
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He discovered that the Earth
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is a conductor of
unlimited dimensions,
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like a vast reservoir,
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and behaves like an
ocean when disturbed.
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No matter how much
along its axis
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the Earth is disturbed
with electric waves,
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it always keeps the
same natural frequency.
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He discovered
the natural frequency
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of the Earth.
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And not only that,
he also discovered
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that the frequency that
the Earth harmonizes with
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is an odd number.
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If you only
knew the magnificence
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of the three, six, and nine,
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then you would have a
key to the universe.
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You're in ether.
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In Tesla's time
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of discovering radio
wave transmission,
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it was believed that they
were traveling through ether.
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- All the way up to 1905,
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there's an energetic ether
or an energetic substrate.
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It's absent for 25
years from 1905 to 1930,
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where the belief of the
scientific community
was it's empty.
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From 1930 on,
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when quantum electric
dynamics became accepted,
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it came back as a far
more energetic model.
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So, it's ironic that
our beliefs today
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are dominated from such a
small little window of history.
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- And a lotta people
look at empty space
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and they think
it's actually empty
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when it's filled with
infinite potential.
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He also wrote
a formula for human energy
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that is the mass
squared of velocity.
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He said, "Velocity is a force
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"governing everything
in nature."
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If we look to Einstein's
famous formula of relativity,
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it is the same, just that
Einstein defined velocity
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as the speed of light
instead of ether.
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He discovered that the
discharged electricity
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of lightning in Earth
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travel from one side
of the Earth to another
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at a speed of 471,240
kilometers per second.
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That is how he proved
that the speed of light
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was not the ultimate
speed in our reality.
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- What we have not yet managed
to do is to unite gravity,
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which is the classical
theory still,
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the classical
theory of Einstein,
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and the quantum
physical description
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of our other interactions.
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The basic question is
can you find one law
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which contains all the
different interactions in nature
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in one single expression?
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In 1900, he
describes the importance
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of producing electrical power
from renewable energy sources.
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He also described a
wireless power transmission
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and transfer through a
natural medium: Earth.
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Every year,
the level of temperatures
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of our planet are rising
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because of the enormous usage
of fossil fuels and coal.
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But if we would
listen to Nikola Tesla
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and his plan for our future,
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we would not deal with
climate changes now.
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- I believe that mankind
has looked at climate change
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in that same way, as
if it were a fiction,
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as if pretending that
climate change wasn't real
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would somehow make it go away.
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But I think we all know
better than that now.
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Every week, we're seeing new
and undeniable climate events,
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evidence that accelerated
climate change is
here right now.
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Droughts are intensifying,
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our oceans are acidifying
with methane plumes
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rising up from the ocean floor.
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We are seeing extreme
weather events
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in the West Antarctic
and Greenland Ice Sheets
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melting at unprecedented rates,
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decades ahead of
scientific projections.
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The time to answer humankind's
greatest challenge is now.
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- There are about seven
billion people in the world.
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And so, now, not only do we
have to find energy for people,
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but we have to do
it in such a way
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so that it will not continue
adding carbon dioxide
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and other greenhouse gases.
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- What's incredible to me
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is that his name is now a
brand of a car.
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And that's how the majority
of people know him.
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- But that was not
Martin Abrahams idea.
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He was a fan of Nikola Tesla,
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particularly
because Nikola Telsa
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invented the three-phase motor
and three-phase electricity.
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And all of these
motors that we use
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to drive these vehicles
are three-phase motors.
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And it's one of those things
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that it seems it's
obviously a very good idea
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after somebody thought of it,
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but somebody had to
think of it first,
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and that was Nikola Tesla.
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- Tesla was studying
three years in Graz.
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In the first two years,
he was very successful.
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He was really good in
mathematics and physics.
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But one day, a
new invention of that time
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came from Paris.
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It was Gramme's dynamo.
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While Professor Poeschl
was making demonstrations,
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the brushes caused a
problem, sparking badly.
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Tesla commented that
it might be possible
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to operate a motor
without these appliances.
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Professor Poeschl
remarked that Mr. Tesla
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might accomplish great things,
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but that he would certainly
never achieve that.
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It would be the
equivalent of converting
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a steadily-pulling force
like that of gravity
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into a rotary effort.
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It is a perpetual motion
scheme, an impossible idea.
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Being humiliated in
front of the whole class
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made Tesla shift his thinking
to accept the challenge
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and prove that the
impossible was possible.
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He left the university.
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He needed money.
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That is why he went to an
industrial town, Maribor,
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where Nikola Tesla
met Karl Scherbaum,
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who was trying to construct
a little power station
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to produce electricity
out of his bakery.
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Tesla got involved
with this project.
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After he shared his ideas
of the dynamo improvement
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and how to connect
it to a steam mill,
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the police arrested him.
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The official police report
from the 24th of March, 1879,
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says, "Nikola Tesla had to
be escorted by police guard
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"to his hometown, Gospic.
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No money, no job,
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"and no vision for the future."
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Only he knew that he was
close to an invention
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that could change
the whole world,
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but no one believed him anymore.
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Energy of a single thought
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may determine the
motion of a universe.
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To fulfill the
last wish of his father,
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he went to Prague and signed
up for philosophical studies
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at the Charles University.
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In Prague, he spent
most of the time
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in the Klementinum Library.
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Earth's magnetic field
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makes the moon rotate
around our planet.
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The sun makes the
Earth and moon rotate
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by its strong magnetic
field around the sun.
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But how to imitate that
magnetic field from the cosmos
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into the rotation of a motor.
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In Budapest, he was focusing
so much on his invention
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that he got sensitive
to any vibration.
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The whistle of a
locomotive 30 miles away
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made vibrations so strong
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that the pain in his
body was unbearable.
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The ground under his feet
trembled continuously.
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And then, one day,
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his motor appeared in his mind.
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1884.
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Nikola Tesla arrives in America.
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- Tesla, who came
on his own volition
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with essentially no family
or no money available to him,
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only a letter of credit from
the Edison functions in Paris.
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Edison gives him
a job, but is not interested
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in Tesla's electromagnetic
motor invention.
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He is there to improve
Edison direct current motors.
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00:29:16,255 --> 00:29:19,358
Edison promises him
$50,000 for that.
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- And Edison had
all these problems
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with these big DC systems
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'cause they are creating
these massive magnetic fields;
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I mean, just massive.
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You're running DC current
down from one end of Manhattan
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to the other through cables;
I mean, cables this big.
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Thousands of amps
at just 100 volts
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'cause Edison
didn't like voltage.
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So, he worked with
everything at 100 volts,
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which is, from an engineering
standpoint, is brain-dead,
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but he was convinced 100
volts wouldn't kill anybody.
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Tesla makes
24 new designs for him,
444
00:29:57,964 --> 00:30:02,134
but the payment turns
out to be just a joke.
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00:30:03,802 --> 00:30:06,281
Tesla answered Edison's joke
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00:30:06,305 --> 00:30:09,451
by patenting all the
improvements he did for Edison
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00:30:09,475 --> 00:30:14,022
so that Edison could not
legally use Tesla's unpaid work.
448
00:30:14,046 --> 00:30:18,817
This sets off a rivalry
between Tesla and Edison.
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00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,298
The climax of their competition
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was when Nikola Tesla,
together with Westinghouse,
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signed a contract
to light up Chicago.
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The age of
electricity had arrived.
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Chicago was
the first city in the world
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lit by electric power, and it
was Nikola Tesla's invention
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of an electromagnetic motor
that produced AC power.
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That was a truly
historical moment
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and the beginning of the
Industrial Revolution.
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27 million visitors
from 46 countries
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from all around the world
came to see the exhibition.
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00:31:03,429 --> 00:31:07,009
Tesla proved that he was
the most important inventor
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in the world
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and that the
impossible was possible
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if you followed your
dreams and instinct.
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The world at once knew
the name Nikola Tesla.
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00:31:23,049 --> 00:31:27,695
- Tesla's first connection
was to connect Niagara Falls,
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the electric energy
from Niagara Falls,
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to the electric grid.
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00:31:32,691 --> 00:31:36,062
Thomas Edison was
still relying on coal.
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00:31:38,130 --> 00:31:41,343
- Tesla achieved
replacing all the coal,
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00:31:41,367 --> 00:31:44,346
individual coal-fired plants
that were in people factories
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00:31:44,370 --> 00:31:47,549
that were sickening and
poisoning everybody around him,
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into electric motors and
cleaning the whole thing up.
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- But the ultimate goal
was to take from a source
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that was basically free.
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Of course, then the
power from Niagara Falls
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was transmitted via a
polyphase power system
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00:32:02,921 --> 00:32:05,924
to cities like Buffalo
and New York City.
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00:32:07,159 --> 00:32:09,337
He developed 40 inventions
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for producing and
distributing electric energy.
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In all this time,
changes were only made
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00:32:15,167 --> 00:32:17,179
in the development of materials.
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His invention of
the AC power system
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are still being used today
and have remained unchanged.
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00:32:54,806 --> 00:32:57,952
- Tesla was the father
of renewable energy
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00:32:57,976 --> 00:33:01,189
because hydroelectric
power is renewable.
486
00:33:01,213 --> 00:33:04,626
The water evaporates,
it comes down as rain,
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fills the lakes,
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because those sources do not
provide CO2 into the atmosphere
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and they do not therefore
create a climate change problem.
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- The electric cars have been
around for a very long time.
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00:33:29,775 --> 00:33:33,088
In the early-1900s, there were
quite a few electric cars.
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For a while there,
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they were more popular
than gasoline cars
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'cause you didn't have to
start them with a crank handle.
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00:33:38,016 --> 00:33:39,961
But the batteries, of
course, weren't great.
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00:33:39,985 --> 00:33:42,330
So, the big thing
that's changed now
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is that we've got
vastly better batteries,
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and of course we've
got all the electronics
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and software to
control the motors.
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So, electric cars actually
predated gasoline cars.
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Part of the vision
of the Tesla founders
502
00:34:00,206 --> 00:34:02,917
was to change the public
perception of electric cars,
503
00:34:02,941 --> 00:34:05,320
and I think that Tesla
Motors has succeeded
504
00:34:05,344 --> 00:34:06,845
enormously well at doing that.
505
00:34:07,946 --> 00:34:10,625
First, you have to
remember this was 2003,
506
00:34:10,649 --> 00:34:13,195
so that's the year that
the California mandate
507
00:34:13,219 --> 00:34:15,930
for zero-emission
vehicles got repealed
508
00:34:15,954 --> 00:34:17,965
and you couldn't
buy an electric car.
509
00:34:17,989 --> 00:34:20,034
All of the ones that
had been on the market,
510
00:34:20,058 --> 00:34:23,171
like the General Motors EV1
were taken off the market,
511
00:34:23,195 --> 00:34:25,039
and the EV1s were
actually taken back
512
00:34:25,063 --> 00:34:26,565
by General Motors and crushed.
513
00:34:27,466 --> 00:34:28,676
Well, the only reason
514
00:34:28,700 --> 00:34:30,378
that people didn't all
drive electric cars
515
00:34:30,402 --> 00:34:31,613
was 'cause, well, you
couldn't buy one.
516
00:34:31,637 --> 00:34:33,672
Someone had to make one.
517
00:34:43,915 --> 00:34:45,193
There's a great tendency
for people to think
518
00:34:45,217 --> 00:34:48,330
that electric cars
are zero-emission.
519
00:34:48,354 --> 00:34:50,798
Well, they're
zero-emission at the car.
520
00:34:50,822 --> 00:34:52,400
But if you plug
them into the grid,
521
00:34:52,424 --> 00:34:55,069
then they're getting electricity
from the national grid,
522
00:34:55,093 --> 00:34:57,139
and a lot of that is still coal.
523
00:34:57,163 --> 00:34:59,307
So, in the US, that's about 40%.
524
00:34:59,331 --> 00:35:01,909
In Australia, it's 69%.
525
00:35:01,933 --> 00:35:04,846
In China, it's over 90% coal.
526
00:35:04,870 --> 00:35:05,913
So, it depends where you are.
527
00:35:05,937 --> 00:35:07,549
For most countries in the world,
528
00:35:07,573 --> 00:35:09,584
if you plug an electric
car into the grid,
529
00:35:09,608 --> 00:35:10,609
you're burning coal.
530
00:35:17,216 --> 00:35:20,728
What
if an alternative
system already exists,
531
00:35:20,752 --> 00:35:22,497
one that could charge
our telephones,
532
00:35:22,521 --> 00:35:25,524
computers, and electric
cars wirelessly?
533
00:35:52,451 --> 00:35:54,896
Tesla intended for this place
534
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,565
to be what he called
his radio city.
535
00:35:57,589 --> 00:36:01,303
He intended it to be a place
of communication system
536
00:36:01,327 --> 00:36:03,762
and an energy-generating
facility.
537
00:36:11,903 --> 00:36:13,981
In 1901, he began to build
538
00:36:14,005 --> 00:36:17,952
his Wardenclyffe Tower as
a magnifying transmitter.
539
00:36:17,976 --> 00:36:21,088
- He was trying to
build a huge Tesla coil
540
00:36:21,112 --> 00:36:25,793
that would electrify the
ionosphere and enable free power
541
00:36:25,817 --> 00:36:28,062
for everybody that
has an antenna.
542
00:36:28,086 --> 00:36:30,665
He would imitate lightning
and reflect them to the Earth.
543
00:36:30,689 --> 00:36:32,834
That electric charge
that would accumulate
544
00:36:32,858 --> 00:36:34,336
in the globe of the tower
545
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,696
would then be transmitted
in pulses through the Earth.
546
00:36:38,864 --> 00:36:40,508
Like that, energy
and information
547
00:36:40,532 --> 00:36:42,577
would be transmitted instantly
548
00:36:42,601 --> 00:36:45,371
to every point on Earth
into a small device.
549
00:36:46,605 --> 00:36:49,083
It is this patent that
our mobile telephones
550
00:36:49,107 --> 00:36:51,943
as well as wifi devices
were developed from.
551
00:36:53,111 --> 00:36:55,923
But how would we use that?
552
00:36:55,947 --> 00:36:58,693
We would stick a device
like a wifi modem
553
00:36:58,717 --> 00:37:00,862
directly with the
wire into the ground
554
00:37:00,886 --> 00:37:02,697
in front of our house.
555
00:37:02,721 --> 00:37:05,667
This would receive power and
information from the Earth
556
00:37:05,691 --> 00:37:08,603
and at the same time distribute
it further through the air
557
00:37:08,627 --> 00:37:11,138
to devices that need
electric energy to work.
558
00:37:11,162 --> 00:37:13,708
Each device would then
have a small receiver
559
00:37:13,732 --> 00:37:17,178
the size of a watch that would
be placed into the product,
560
00:37:17,202 --> 00:37:20,214
like receivers of wifi
transmission today in computers,
561
00:37:20,238 --> 00:37:21,807
which detect these signals.
562
00:37:23,041 --> 00:37:25,052
Our mobiles would
work the same way,
563
00:37:25,076 --> 00:37:27,655
just that the signal would
be covered everywhere you go
564
00:37:27,679 --> 00:37:29,657
and not change by bad weather.
565
00:37:29,681 --> 00:37:32,360
In addition, we would
not need to charge them
566
00:37:32,384 --> 00:37:34,586
or anything else anymore.
567
00:37:37,889 --> 00:37:41,469
Tesla envisioned that we
would power not only houses
568
00:37:41,493 --> 00:37:44,572
but cars, trains,
and airplanes too.
569
00:37:44,596 --> 00:37:46,908
It would not be necessary
to dig into the Earth
570
00:37:46,932 --> 00:37:49,243
for fossil fuels
or coal anymore.
571
00:37:49,267 --> 00:37:52,079
We would use the
Earth and ionizing air
572
00:37:52,103 --> 00:37:56,041
to do what nature
naturally uses it to do.
573
00:38:36,648 --> 00:38:39,260
The tower was
almost completely finished,
574
00:38:39,284 --> 00:38:41,487
but Tesla was left
without money.
575
00:38:42,888 --> 00:38:47,134
- JP Morgan was one of the main
financial backers for Tesla
576
00:38:47,158 --> 00:38:48,803
with this project.
577
00:38:48,827 --> 00:38:52,640
There came a point
when Guglielmo Marconi
578
00:38:52,664 --> 00:38:55,309
sent a trans-Atlantic message,
579
00:38:55,333 --> 00:39:00,338
made a big splash with
what he was able to do.
580
00:39:00,672 --> 00:39:02,817
Meanwhile, he had been
using Tesla's patents
581
00:39:02,841 --> 00:39:05,487
and Tesla's work to
be able to do that.
582
00:39:05,511 --> 00:39:08,423
What Morgan had supported here
583
00:39:08,447 --> 00:39:10,625
was the idea that Tesla
would be able to send
584
00:39:10,649 --> 00:39:12,627
that kind of communication.
585
00:39:12,651 --> 00:39:13,952
So, once Marconi did it,
586
00:39:14,119 --> 00:39:17,965
Morgan no longer had any use
for what Tesla was doing.
587
00:39:17,989 --> 00:39:20,167
It had already been
done by someone else.
588
00:39:20,191 --> 00:39:25,330
And so, his interest
in supporting the
continued work here
589
00:39:25,631 --> 00:39:27,933
was no longer part of his plan.
590
00:39:31,837 --> 00:39:34,416
Tesla went to him and said,
"Well, I have greater plans
591
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:37,351
"than just sending a
trans-Atlantic message.
592
00:39:37,375 --> 00:39:41,489
"I want to create an
opportunity for people to have
593
00:39:41,513 --> 00:39:44,158
"unlimited amounts of
energy transported."
594
00:39:44,182 --> 00:39:46,694
- JP Morgan said, "Nobody's
pulling up to my gas pump
595
00:39:46,718 --> 00:39:48,554
"and getting the gas for free,"
596
00:39:49,988 --> 00:39:52,667
and Nikola Tesla wanted to
give it to the world for free
597
00:39:52,691 --> 00:39:54,192
for the betterment of mankind.
598
00:40:03,068 --> 00:40:05,112
For our existence and comfort,
599
00:40:05,136 --> 00:40:09,517
we require heat, light,
and mechanical power.
600
00:40:09,541 --> 00:40:12,319
How do we now get
all these things?
601
00:40:12,343 --> 00:40:14,121
We get them from fuel.
602
00:40:14,145 --> 00:40:16,181
We get them by
consuming material.
603
00:40:17,583 --> 00:40:20,828
What will man do when
the forests disappear,
604
00:40:20,852 --> 00:40:23,021
when the coalfields
are exhausted?
605
00:40:32,931 --> 00:40:36,310
- They literally turned
off the public's mind.
606
00:40:36,334 --> 00:40:38,412
They manipulated
the public's mind.
607
00:40:38,436 --> 00:40:41,873
They'd hypnotize 'em into
a sleep and forgetfulness.
608
00:40:42,841 --> 00:40:45,152
The media was new and fresh
then and they realized
609
00:40:45,176 --> 00:40:47,555
that they could really
manipulate whole
populations with it,
610
00:40:47,579 --> 00:40:49,223
and that's what they
did with Nikola Tesla.
611
00:40:49,247 --> 00:40:51,325
They took this new
form, the new mediums,
612
00:40:51,349 --> 00:40:53,051
they bought up all
the newspapers,
613
00:40:53,885 --> 00:40:57,388
and they used it to put the
public to sleep about this.
614
00:41:16,141 --> 00:41:19,453
- "Tesla's work holds
the mark of genius
615
00:41:19,477 --> 00:41:20,888
"and he has been a pioneer
616
00:41:20,912 --> 00:41:24,058
"in vast fields of
electrotechnology.
617
00:41:24,082 --> 00:41:28,062
"However, his contributions
lie too far back in time,
618
00:41:28,086 --> 00:41:32,466
"40 years, to be considered
for a Nobel Prize award."
619
00:41:32,490 --> 00:41:37,395
Interesting is that the
Nobel Committee really states
620
00:41:37,428 --> 00:41:40,398
that Tesla's work holds
the mark of genius.
621
00:41:43,969 --> 00:41:45,279
Was that really the reason
622
00:41:45,303 --> 00:41:48,950
why Tesla did not get
the Nobel Prize in 1937,
623
00:41:48,974 --> 00:41:51,719
because his inventions
were too old?
624
00:41:51,743 --> 00:41:54,956
Or was there something
else that happened before
625
00:41:54,980 --> 00:41:57,415
that prevented him from
getting the Nobel Prize?
626
00:42:17,435 --> 00:42:20,347
In 1909, the Nobel
Prize in Physics
627
00:42:20,371 --> 00:42:22,483
was given to Guglielmo Marconi
628
00:42:22,507 --> 00:42:24,752
for recognition to contributions
629
00:42:24,776 --> 00:42:27,278
of the development of
wireless telegraphy.
630
00:42:28,513 --> 00:42:31,192
- They underline
that Tesla had made
631
00:42:31,216 --> 00:42:34,662
the most crucial improvements.
632
00:42:34,686 --> 00:42:37,431
Since we have known that
Marconi got the prize,
633
00:42:37,455 --> 00:42:38,866
you can't go back.
634
00:42:38,890 --> 00:42:41,793
If you have a made a decision,
it might be totally wrong.
635
00:42:43,962 --> 00:42:46,440
- He would never
be granted a patent
636
00:42:46,464 --> 00:42:50,845
because Tesla already had the
patents granted in his name.
637
00:42:50,869 --> 00:42:54,181
But after he became
associated with JP Morgan,
638
00:42:54,205 --> 00:42:57,518
magically, the
patents were granted.
639
00:42:57,542 --> 00:43:02,080
So, money has a lot to say
about how these things get done.
640
00:43:05,016 --> 00:43:07,028
The last years of Tesla's life
641
00:43:07,052 --> 00:43:08,796
were mostly spent in court,
642
00:43:08,820 --> 00:43:10,889
defending his patents
and inventions.
643
00:43:12,057 --> 00:43:13,868
Marconi's company
was selling licenses
644
00:43:13,892 --> 00:43:15,737
for radio transmission in the US
645
00:43:15,761 --> 00:43:19,040
and getting big fees for
using radio transmission.
646
00:43:19,064 --> 00:43:22,209
But when they also wanted to
get paid from the US government
647
00:43:22,233 --> 00:43:24,545
for their contribution of
using radio communication
648
00:43:24,569 --> 00:43:27,649
in World War I,
the trial started.
649
00:43:27,673 --> 00:43:31,176
There were enormous financial
interests behind this trial.
650
00:43:32,410 --> 00:43:34,221
- And all that
information was then used
651
00:43:34,245 --> 00:43:36,724
to form the RCA Corporation,
652
00:43:36,748 --> 00:43:41,386
which became a very
big moneymaker for
the establishment.
653
00:43:44,890 --> 00:43:45,890
- And at that time,
654
00:43:46,257 --> 00:43:49,527
that's when they started
to attack his reputation,
655
00:43:49,861 --> 00:43:53,775
try to make him look like a
kook and a crank in the press.
656
00:43:53,799 --> 00:43:56,234
By the early-'40s, he had
been nearly forgotten.
657
00:44:00,605 --> 00:44:04,518
- For many years, Nikola Tesla
lived in the Waldorf-Astoria.
658
00:44:04,542 --> 00:44:08,622
And over that time, John Jacob
Astor and he were friends.
659
00:44:08,646 --> 00:44:11,759
Once Astor died in the Titanic,
660
00:44:11,783 --> 00:44:15,029
the property at the Waldorf
was owned by another man;
661
00:44:15,053 --> 00:44:16,731
his name was George Boldt.
662
00:44:16,755 --> 00:44:19,466
And not long after
that, Mr. Boldt died.
663
00:44:19,490 --> 00:44:23,070
And over those years, Tesla
wasn't paying his rent.
664
00:44:23,094 --> 00:44:24,972
He was living there on credit.
665
00:44:24,996 --> 00:44:27,308
And once those two
gentlemen died,
666
00:44:27,332 --> 00:44:30,611
Boldt's heirs decided
they wanted to have Tesla
667
00:44:30,635 --> 00:44:34,215
pay what he owed them, and
he didn't have the money.
668
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:37,618
So, the heirs to George
Boldt brought him to court.
669
00:44:37,642 --> 00:44:41,455
In 1915, he lost
ownership of the property
670
00:44:41,479 --> 00:44:46,484
and it was taken over by those
people he owed a debt to,
671
00:44:47,085 --> 00:44:50,188
primarily the heirs to
the Waldorf-Astoria.
672
00:44:54,659 --> 00:44:57,104
- They did everything in
the power to discredit him
673
00:44:57,128 --> 00:44:58,505
so he would never be
able to achieve that,
674
00:44:58,529 --> 00:45:00,407
that he would never
be able to get funding
675
00:45:00,431 --> 00:45:02,968
from somebody else to
achieve free energy,
676
00:45:05,170 --> 00:45:08,315
which I think was one of the
biggest crimes against humanity
677
00:45:08,339 --> 00:45:10,151
that ever happened.
678
00:45:15,046 --> 00:45:18,259
I don't care
that they stole my idea.
679
00:45:18,283 --> 00:45:21,019
I care that they don't
have any of their own.
680
00:45:32,798 --> 00:45:35,943
It is time to learn the truth
681
00:45:35,967 --> 00:45:38,612
about wireless
power transmission,
682
00:45:38,636 --> 00:45:40,547
which once existed on Earth,
683
00:45:40,571 --> 00:45:43,875
not only as an idea but
as a functional system
684
00:45:45,543 --> 00:45:49,623
from which we still use today's
systems of communication.
685
00:45:49,647 --> 00:45:51,325
- We started putting
the pieces together
686
00:45:51,349 --> 00:45:52,827
and started doing
experimentation
687
00:45:52,851 --> 00:45:56,197
where we actually have
duplicated some of his work,
688
00:45:56,221 --> 00:45:58,032
and especially with
his power claims
689
00:45:58,056 --> 00:46:00,667
that he could generate
massive amounts of electricity
690
00:46:00,691 --> 00:46:03,137
for small amounts of horsepower,
691
00:46:03,161 --> 00:46:06,373
which means I don't have
to burn coal and oil
692
00:46:06,397 --> 00:46:08,934
in great big mountains
to get my electricity.
693
00:46:10,235 --> 00:46:13,047
We could take power
out, get 50 watts in,
694
00:46:13,071 --> 00:46:14,481
take that same power we use,
695
00:46:14,505 --> 00:46:16,017
send it back through
the transformer
696
00:46:16,041 --> 00:46:17,718
and cancel out the input power
697
00:46:17,742 --> 00:46:20,587
and measure one watt
at the transformer
698
00:46:20,611 --> 00:46:22,713
and 50 watts at the pole.
699
00:46:25,383 --> 00:46:27,829
- Wrightspeed is a
powertrain company.
700
00:46:27,853 --> 00:46:30,164
We make powertrains,
not vehicles;
701
00:46:30,188 --> 00:46:32,099
all the stuff that
makes them go.
702
00:46:32,123 --> 00:46:35,260
And they're electric powertrains
for heavy-duty vehicles.
703
00:46:36,427 --> 00:46:37,905
The big difference
though with this
704
00:46:37,929 --> 00:46:41,575
is that it's got an onboard
generator for the range extender
705
00:46:41,599 --> 00:46:43,410
that can burn fuel onboard
706
00:46:43,434 --> 00:46:46,213
and make electricity to
keep the battery charged,
707
00:46:46,237 --> 00:46:48,039
so you can keep driving forever.
708
00:46:49,140 --> 00:46:50,551
- Hyperloops is often called
709
00:46:50,575 --> 00:46:52,086
the fifth mode of
transportation.
710
00:46:52,110 --> 00:46:54,421
Imagine a capsule and moving
711
00:46:54,445 --> 00:46:58,059
basically just below
the speed of sound.
712
00:46:58,083 --> 00:46:59,593
So, the capsule levitates
713
00:46:59,617 --> 00:47:02,729
through a passive magnetic
levitation technology
714
00:47:02,753 --> 00:47:04,131
called Inductrack.
715
00:47:04,155 --> 00:47:06,800
The whole system is powered
by alternative energy.
716
00:47:06,824 --> 00:47:09,570
So, you have solar
panels along the track,
717
00:47:09,594 --> 00:47:11,939
so using the same right-of-way.
718
00:47:11,963 --> 00:47:13,207
And we're using wind,
719
00:47:13,231 --> 00:47:15,742
kinetic energy through
regenerative breaking,
720
00:47:15,766 --> 00:47:18,245
and, depending on the
climate, even geothermal
721
00:47:18,269 --> 00:47:20,915
to potentially
produce more energy
722
00:47:20,939 --> 00:47:22,283
than we're actually using.
723
00:47:22,307 --> 00:47:24,551
We realized very early on
724
00:47:24,575 --> 00:47:27,121
that in order to make
Hyperloop happen,
725
00:47:27,145 --> 00:47:29,957
we needed to build more
than just a company.
726
00:47:29,981 --> 00:47:31,492
We needed to build a movement.
727
00:47:31,516 --> 00:47:35,096
I think that if you have a
single person like Nikola Tesla
728
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:38,599
who has great ideas,
great capabilities,
729
00:47:38,623 --> 00:47:41,235
and what it really takes
then to move it forward
730
00:47:41,259 --> 00:47:44,405
is to find other people
passionate about the same thing
731
00:47:44,429 --> 00:47:46,807
that help him to
elevate the thing.
732
00:47:46,831 --> 00:47:50,311
It's always good
to have the genius
733
00:47:50,335 --> 00:47:53,504
and also understand how to
get something to the market.
734
00:47:57,208 --> 00:48:00,988
- And apparently, Swamiji and
Tesla got along very well.
735
00:48:01,012 --> 00:48:04,425
Tesla was very impressed
with him, and Swamiji also.
736
00:48:04,449 --> 00:48:08,495
In Tesla's writing, he always
used these Sanskrit terms.
737
00:48:08,519 --> 00:48:12,934
Can be translated as 'ether',
738
00:48:12,958 --> 00:48:16,370
basic building blocks of nature.
739
00:48:16,394 --> 00:48:20,298
So, even before creation,
this ether will exist.
740
00:48:21,499 --> 00:48:25,446
And Swamiji thought that he
could mathematically prove
741
00:48:25,470 --> 00:48:28,349
the equivalency, so
that matter and energy
742
00:48:28,373 --> 00:48:30,051
were not two different things.
743
00:48:30,075 --> 00:48:33,020
And Swamiji felt that
if Tesla could do this,
744
00:48:33,044 --> 00:48:36,023
this would give him
mathematical proof to this idea
745
00:48:36,047 --> 00:48:39,884
that was accepted thousands
of years ago in India.
746
00:48:42,487 --> 00:48:44,966
- Our main goal is
to understand better
747
00:48:44,990 --> 00:48:48,635
what was the evolution
of the laws of nature
748
00:48:48,659 --> 00:48:51,338
in the very early
moments of the universe,
749
00:48:51,362 --> 00:48:53,207
just after the Big Bang.
750
00:48:53,231 --> 00:48:56,210
We have now approached
that initial moment
751
00:48:56,234 --> 00:48:58,545
to about one-trillionth
of a second.
752
00:48:58,569 --> 00:49:00,747
I mean, what don't know
what caused the Big Bang
753
00:49:00,771 --> 00:49:04,518
and we don't know what kind
of energy was available
754
00:49:04,542 --> 00:49:07,945
because we have no way of
going beyond the Big Bang.
755
00:49:09,114 --> 00:49:13,418
So, I guess that's a
metaphysical question.
756
00:49:14,785 --> 00:49:17,264
The day science begins to study
757
00:49:17,288 --> 00:49:19,533
nonphysical phenomena,
758
00:49:19,557 --> 00:49:22,536
it will make more
progress in one decade
759
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:26,097
than in all the previous
centuries of its existence.
760
00:49:28,066 --> 00:49:30,744
To understand
the Wardenclyffe project,
761
00:49:30,768 --> 00:49:33,771
do we need a small shift
in our understanding?
762
00:49:39,377 --> 00:49:41,288
- Boy, nobody ever
asks the question:
763
00:49:41,312 --> 00:49:43,248
What did he do
with a Tesla coil?
764
00:49:44,815 --> 00:49:47,261
He had ways to where he
could take that high voltage
765
00:49:47,285 --> 00:49:48,595
and oscillate at
right frequencies
766
00:49:48,619 --> 00:49:50,631
to where he could
trick electrons
767
00:49:50,655 --> 00:49:54,301
in a way to where they opened
what we call the ether valve.
768
00:49:54,325 --> 00:49:55,726
Some of the experiments,
769
00:49:56,827 --> 00:49:58,772
he would go to the
far end of Long Island
770
00:49:58,796 --> 00:50:01,808
in the darkest, darkest part
he could get away from lights
771
00:50:01,832 --> 00:50:03,277
and then he'd hook up
772
00:50:03,301 --> 00:50:06,147
this small high-voltage Tesla
coil-type system he had.
773
00:50:06,171 --> 00:50:09,583
And what it would do, it would
take the layers of nitrogen
774
00:50:09,607 --> 00:50:13,954
in the atmosphere along that
wire and it would ionize
775
00:50:13,978 --> 00:50:17,224
and he would strip the
electrons off that layer of gas.
776
00:50:17,248 --> 00:50:18,825
And then, all of a sudden,
777
00:50:18,849 --> 00:50:23,821
he would light up acres and
acres and acres of forest,
778
00:50:25,022 --> 00:50:28,001
and every air molecule
was emitting light.
779
00:50:28,025 --> 00:50:30,661
- Our consciousness
is not in the brain.
780
00:50:31,829 --> 00:50:33,407
That's mechanical.
781
00:50:33,431 --> 00:50:37,978
Consciousness is connected
to all consciousnesses.
782
00:50:38,002 --> 00:50:39,604
They're all connected together.
783
00:50:40,471 --> 00:50:42,416
And the computer, if you will,
784
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:45,343
to which our consciousness
is connected is the brain.
785
00:50:47,212 --> 00:50:48,689
With the Wardenclyffe Tower,
786
00:50:48,713 --> 00:50:51,782
he would increase the natural
potential of the Earth.
787
00:50:54,352 --> 00:50:57,188
But that would also
increase our consciousness.
788
00:51:05,963 --> 00:51:08,509
- In 1917, on the
Fourth of July,
789
00:51:08,533 --> 00:51:10,801
they set dynamite to the statue.
790
00:51:14,705 --> 00:51:17,718
They hoped to be able
to get some money back
791
00:51:17,742 --> 00:51:22,247
on what Tesla owed them by
selling the tower for scrap.
792
00:51:31,556 --> 00:51:32,799
Edison started to build
793
00:51:32,823 --> 00:51:34,668
his motion picture empire,
794
00:51:34,692 --> 00:51:36,537
connecting all the
people in the US
795
00:51:36,561 --> 00:51:40,174
that had inventions in motion
pictures under a corporation
796
00:51:40,198 --> 00:51:42,543
called the Motion
Pictures Patent Company,
797
00:51:42,567 --> 00:51:45,212
known also as the Edison Trust.
798
00:51:45,236 --> 00:51:47,548
The Edison Trust
would issue licenses
799
00:51:47,572 --> 00:51:49,750
to all the producers
or distributors
800
00:51:49,774 --> 00:51:51,885
who dared to deal
in motion pictures.
801
00:51:51,909 --> 00:51:54,155
But there were
independent producers
802
00:51:54,179 --> 00:51:56,923
that pirated films and
equipment from Europe
803
00:51:56,947 --> 00:51:59,760
and were secretly
shooting films in the US
804
00:51:59,784 --> 00:52:01,586
without Edison's approval.
805
00:52:02,753 --> 00:52:04,731
Even Charlie Chaplin
was a star in Europe
806
00:52:04,755 --> 00:52:05,999
through the pirated films
807
00:52:06,023 --> 00:52:08,034
brought by these
producers to Europe
808
00:52:08,058 --> 00:52:10,871
while, in the US, he could
not be seen on screen
809
00:52:10,895 --> 00:52:12,963
because of the
Edison Trust license.
810
00:52:14,199 --> 00:52:16,042
The Edison Trust was
made to have control
811
00:52:16,066 --> 00:52:17,911
over what is produced
and distributed
812
00:52:17,935 --> 00:52:20,181
in motion pictures in the US.
813
00:52:20,205 --> 00:52:23,083
Edison had to be sure
that nothing about Tesla
814
00:52:23,107 --> 00:52:24,575
would come to the big screen.
815
00:52:45,796 --> 00:52:46,940
Independent producers
816
00:52:46,964 --> 00:52:48,542
were fighting with Edison.
817
00:52:48,566 --> 00:52:50,544
And to get far away from Edison,
818
00:52:50,568 --> 00:52:55,573
they began to build a motion
picture town: Hollywood,
819
00:52:55,673 --> 00:52:57,551
a place where there was
a lot of natural light
820
00:52:57,575 --> 00:52:59,886
and they did not need
his Black Maria Studio
821
00:52:59,910 --> 00:53:02,680
or his approval to make movies.
822
00:53:06,251 --> 00:53:10,297
Finally, after a federal
court decision in 1915,
823
00:53:10,321 --> 00:53:13,567
the monopoly of Edison
Trust was dismissed
824
00:53:13,591 --> 00:53:16,761
as an unnecessary
protection of patents.
825
00:53:44,789 --> 00:53:47,000
At the same
time that Nikola Tesla
826
00:53:47,024 --> 00:53:49,035
lost his property
at Wardenclyffe,
827
00:53:49,059 --> 00:53:52,138
Edison lost his Edison Trust.
828
00:53:52,162 --> 00:53:56,142
In May 1915, Edison wrote
in the New York Times,
829
00:53:56,166 --> 00:53:59,880
"The government should maintain
a great research laboratory
830
00:53:59,904 --> 00:54:01,282
"where it could be developed
831
00:54:01,306 --> 00:54:04,385
"all the technique of
military and naval progression
832
00:54:04,409 --> 00:54:06,520
"without any vast expense."
833
00:54:06,544 --> 00:54:09,490
The US Congress
allocated $1.5 million
834
00:54:09,514 --> 00:54:11,292
for its implementation.
835
00:54:11,316 --> 00:54:12,693
Edison agreed to serve
836
00:54:12,717 --> 00:54:15,353
as the head of the
Naval Consulting Board.
837
00:54:16,321 --> 00:54:17,798
A Navy laboratory was set up
838
00:54:17,822 --> 00:54:20,233
to experiment with
wireless technology
839
00:54:20,257 --> 00:54:22,969
and continue Nikola
Tesla's work.
840
00:54:22,993 --> 00:54:25,506
With Wardenclyffe, Nikola
Tesla had described
841
00:54:25,530 --> 00:54:27,808
the idea of internet and emails,
842
00:54:27,832 --> 00:54:30,234
electric newspapers,
and social media.
843
00:54:31,569 --> 00:54:34,180
It was the US Navy
laboratory that in the end
844
00:54:34,204 --> 00:54:36,073
paved the way for the internet.
845
00:54:39,710 --> 00:54:41,254
John Edgar Hoover,
846
00:54:41,278 --> 00:54:44,991
who is credited with
establishing the FBI in 1935,
847
00:54:45,015 --> 00:54:48,194
was personally
following Nikola Tesla.
848
00:54:48,218 --> 00:54:51,164
That is why Tesla, for the
last decades of his life,
849
00:54:51,188 --> 00:54:52,666
never walked alone
850
00:54:52,690 --> 00:54:55,560
and was always watched
by his secret police.
851
00:54:58,629 --> 00:55:00,006
- He was basically feeding
pigeons in the park
852
00:55:00,030 --> 00:55:01,207
'til the day he died,
853
00:55:01,231 --> 00:55:03,634
and he's one of the
brightest guys on Earth.
854
00:55:05,035 --> 00:55:08,014
I can't even imagine how
frustrating that must've been.
855
00:55:08,038 --> 00:55:09,383
People just didn't
listen to him anymore.
856
00:55:09,407 --> 00:55:11,041
They didn't take him seriously.
857
00:55:13,043 --> 00:55:16,056
It is absurd that
the man who invented radio
858
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:18,792
and wireless communication
was in the end
859
00:55:18,816 --> 00:55:22,028
the only one using the
old way of communicating,
860
00:55:22,052 --> 00:55:23,364
via pigeons.
861
00:55:23,388 --> 00:55:25,198
They were the only way
for him to communicate
862
00:55:25,222 --> 00:55:26,633
with the rest of the city
863
00:55:26,657 --> 00:55:29,727
without John Edgar Hoover
and the FBI knowing about it.
864
00:55:30,895 --> 00:55:32,639
- I met him myself.
865
00:55:32,663 --> 00:55:37,544
He hugged me and kissed me
like any good Serb could do,
866
00:55:37,568 --> 00:55:38,779
and he understood in me
867
00:55:38,803 --> 00:55:42,616
that I represented him
as a younger person,
868
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:44,951
because he had an
older brother who died,
869
00:55:44,975 --> 00:55:47,678
I had an older brother who
died, both accidentally.
870
00:55:48,813 --> 00:55:54,819
And he saw in me a
little bit of himself
871
00:55:55,119 --> 00:55:57,154
as I was approaching his age.
872
00:56:02,259 --> 00:56:04,261
- He cared about people.
873
00:56:05,763 --> 00:56:08,599
Everything was from a
humanitarian standpoint.
874
00:56:10,535 --> 00:56:12,413
And to take a guy like that
875
00:56:12,437 --> 00:56:17,183
and then have to put him in
the mix of industrialists
876
00:56:17,207 --> 00:56:21,021
and capitalists and
the greed and fear
877
00:56:21,045 --> 00:56:23,757
and the money game and all that,
878
00:56:23,781 --> 00:56:25,616
how he survived all
that is amazing.
879
00:56:27,518 --> 00:56:29,954
I mean, he kept his
integrity to his last breath.
880
00:56:42,232 --> 00:56:44,445
He should've been a billionaire,
881
00:56:44,469 --> 00:56:48,615
but he died alone and penniless
in a New York hotel room
882
00:56:48,639 --> 00:56:53,043
on Orthodox Christmas in
New York City in 1943.
883
00:57:11,395 --> 00:57:13,707
The US Supreme Court
finally decided
884
00:57:13,731 --> 00:57:15,676
that Tesla was
the rightful owner
885
00:57:15,700 --> 00:57:19,513
for the patents for wireless
communication after his death,
886
00:57:19,537 --> 00:57:23,007
despite Marconi being awarded
a Nobel Prize for this.
887
00:57:26,010 --> 00:57:28,989
- He was forgotten for a
while in the '50s and '60s.
888
00:57:29,013 --> 00:57:32,693
Now, we have a resurgence
of interest in Tesla.
889
00:57:32,717 --> 00:57:34,394
There was a rock
band called Tesla
890
00:57:34,418 --> 00:57:35,596
here in the United States.
891
00:57:35,620 --> 00:57:39,099
And of course, the
selection by Elon Musk
892
00:57:39,123 --> 00:57:41,735
of the name Tesla
for his automobile
893
00:57:41,759 --> 00:57:45,171
was a, I think, tremendous
boost to Tesla's legacy.
894
00:57:45,195 --> 00:57:46,940
It caused a lotta
people to wonder,
895
00:57:46,964 --> 00:57:48,633
"Well, who is this Tesla?"
896
00:57:52,202 --> 00:57:53,680
- The idea of Tesla is not one
897
00:57:53,704 --> 00:57:55,682
that many Americans
grew up with.
898
00:57:55,706 --> 00:57:57,450
It's sometimes hard for teachers
899
00:57:57,474 --> 00:57:59,920
to understand even why or what.
900
00:57:59,944 --> 00:58:03,557
In the morning, our students
say the Inventor's Pledge,
901
00:58:03,581 --> 00:58:06,627
and so it is a
pledge to themselves
902
00:58:06,651 --> 00:58:09,129
as well as to the
school community.
903
00:58:09,153 --> 00:58:10,731
Says, "Last night
I was a dreamer
904
00:58:10,755 --> 00:58:12,799
"and today I am an inventor.
905
00:58:12,823 --> 00:58:15,235
"If I can dream it,
I can imagine it.
906
00:58:15,259 --> 00:58:17,604
"And if I can imagine
it, I can create it."
907
00:58:17,628 --> 00:58:19,463
- Nothing better than one man
908
00:58:20,430 --> 00:58:24,468
change whole world what
better can we ask for?
909
00:58:25,402 --> 00:58:26,980
The interest in Tesla today
910
00:58:27,004 --> 00:58:29,550
is people talk about
the mythology so much
911
00:58:29,574 --> 00:58:30,884
when they talk about Tesla.
912
00:58:30,908 --> 00:58:33,086
Nobody's really been
trying to understand
913
00:58:33,110 --> 00:58:34,755
what he was talking
about and what he did.
914
00:58:34,779 --> 00:58:37,815
Humanity needs this stuff and
we can't let this stuff die.
915
00:58:40,150 --> 00:58:42,896
- Tesla's favorite
machine was what he called
916
00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:46,332
the self-acting engine,
and it is a machine
917
00:58:46,356 --> 00:58:48,602
that takes the heat
of the ambient air
918
00:58:48,626 --> 00:58:51,638
and it allows us to
harness solar energy
919
00:58:51,662 --> 00:58:56,634
at any place on
the planet, 24/7.
920
00:58:58,936 --> 00:59:01,081
- The good news is
that renewable energy
921
00:59:01,105 --> 00:59:04,585
is not only achievable
but good economic policy.
922
00:59:04,609 --> 00:59:07,588
This is not a partisan
debate, it is a human one.
923
00:59:07,612 --> 00:59:10,090
Clean air and a livable climate
924
00:59:10,114 --> 00:59:12,292
are inalienable human rights.
925
00:59:12,316 --> 00:59:15,662
And solving this crisis is
not a question of politics,
926
00:59:15,686 --> 00:59:17,622
it is a question of
our own survival.
927
00:59:18,455 --> 00:59:19,666
In the end,
928
00:59:19,690 --> 00:59:21,802
it was not only Tesla
that was repressed,
929
00:59:21,826 --> 00:59:24,971
but us, all of civilization.
930
00:59:24,995 --> 00:59:26,472
He did his job.
931
00:59:26,496 --> 00:59:29,442
He gave us all what he was
living and working for,
932
00:59:29,466 --> 00:59:33,113
and we are using almost
all of his inventions today
933
00:59:33,137 --> 00:59:35,840
but not for free
as he wanted us to.
934
00:59:37,574 --> 00:59:41,221
He said that the world was
not ready for his invention.
935
00:59:41,245 --> 00:59:43,480
It was too far
ahead of its time.
936
00:59:44,581 --> 00:59:49,295
But he also said that the same
laws would prevail in the end
937
00:59:49,319 --> 00:59:53,333
and make it a triumphal success.
938
00:59:53,357 --> 00:59:55,568
And it has to
be about his science.
939
00:59:55,592 --> 00:59:57,161
Otherwise, his day is done.
940
00:59:58,595 --> 01:00:00,641
We're never gonna get another
genius like that ever again,
941
01:00:00,665 --> 01:00:02,643
so we have to pick
up where he left off.
942
01:00:02,667 --> 01:00:05,411
And it's gonna take a
whole bunch of minds
943
01:00:05,435 --> 01:00:07,271
to do what this one mind did.
944
01:00:10,107 --> 01:00:12,719
Let the future tell the truth
945
01:00:12,743 --> 01:00:14,254
and evaluate each one
946
01:00:14,278 --> 01:00:16,847
according to his work
and accomplishments.
947
01:00:17,848 --> 01:00:19,726
The present is theirs.
948
01:00:19,750 --> 01:00:23,620
The future for which I
have really worked is mine.
949
01:00:25,923 --> 01:00:28,859
My name is Nikola Tesla.
950
01:00:37,125 --> 01:00:39,125
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