Nikola Tesla's laboratory, known as Wardenclyffe, was built to provide free wireless energy for the entire earth.

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It would have destroyed anything using radio waves. No joke, it was a supremely bad idea.

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Alternate-tech nuts: Tesla was a genius. Also alternate-tech nuts: We're being irradiated with ever-more-powerful waves!

Tesla's system would have been putting a lot of power into the environment, if it could even work. I think it's BS. You don't beam high energy efficiently through the air without problems.

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A tower is currently in use and it does not support your position.

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A tower is currently in use and it does not support your position.

Then it is not a powerful Wardenclyffe type tower.

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so why didnt it?

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He never got it to work at the distance he wanted for any length of time. Because he was literally trying to provide power in all directions, the amount of energy required increased exponentially with distance. The electrical components were crazy expensive to make and burned out quickly.

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so why didnt it?

Well, it was 1901-1911 and there was very little radio communications then. Do you know how the tower was supposed to work? It seems that people love the story of Tesla providing free energy to everyone but the thing did not work as intended and was based on earlier ideas from other people, especially Mahlon Loomis, and was based on the ideas of telegraphy and electrical conduction and not radio frequency waves.

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I thought he had plans to put a tower at the north pole that would beam out the earths energy , that wydencliff was not meant to cover that many

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What people don't realize is the tower portion did not radiate radio waves. The round knob at the top of the tower actually is to prevent radio or any other kind of energy from leaving the tower because the energy is directed into the Earth where it resonates within the Earth and can be picked up anywhere around the earth. That was Tesla's power system. You want to have a round knob on the top to prevent sparking into the things. In fact when a Tesla coil is properly used it does not put out Sparks or anything at the top of the tower. People who are running Tesla coils and producing those large Sparks and other things that you see I actually writing them incorrectly and they're overpowering them and causing a breakdown at the top of the shiny knob. The reason the knob has to be around is if you don't have any sharp edges and it's harder for the energy to escape.

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conspiratards: OMG 5G IS GOING TO MELT MUH BRAIN AND GIVE ME CANCER same people: mmm gigawatts of wireless power 24/7 sign me up

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Electricity operates at 50hz , 5G works in gigahertz

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A Tesla coil operates between 50 KHz and 2 MHz. That's a big difference from 50 Hz. Sending energy wirelessly through the air requires high frequencies in order to radiate rather than need a conductor like wires. You can't get 50 Hz to radiate because it is too low a frequency to go more than a little bit outside of the wires. Huge amounts of power sent wirelessly at the Tesla frequencies would actually be quite dangerous as any metal object could act as an antenna. Not exactly what I would call safe. It would probably also interfere with all manner of electronics and other wireless communication so it's not well suited for modern times.

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Electricity operates at 50hz , 5G works in gigahertz

You are really showing your ignorance here. Electrical power grid in the United States uses 60Hz alternating current. This is arbitrary, depending upon the speed of rotation of the generator's (actually an alternator) armature. It can also be converted to direct current by diodes, or by oscillating devices into any other frequency desired.

Did you know that 5G simply stands for the "5th generation" of cellular telephone technology, and is being deployed on a variety of different frequencies?

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Yep. Tesla was so wrong and misunderstood physics so badly, his research was immediately seized by the government and classified.

Look at the brain trust comments telling us how badly he misunderstood physics. Meanwhile people are only just now reproducing his experiments and confirming him correct. lol. Most physicists don't even understand what he understood or that much of it is now confirmed accurate.

https://texashillcountry.com/mysterious-tesla-tower-texas/

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It would have been a supremely inefficient and ineffective system to send power wirelessly in all directions. Aside from the exponential power losses over the distance, the receivers of the field would have an adverse effect on the transmitter. The more load a receiver puts on the signal, the more the frequency will shift. Wireless receivers are still capacitively coupled to the transmitter through the Earth. A bunch of radio receivers don't alter the transmission frequency of the radio stations because the radio receivers are a miniscule load coupled to the transmitter. Drawing off kilowatts of energy is not the same as drawing off picowatts of energy like a radio receiver would do.

As the load varies, the transmitter frequency and modulated waveform will start to change. New harmonics will be induced in the transmitter tuned L/C tank (inductor, capacitor tuned resonator). This will cause less efficiency in the power transmission and the receivers will no longer be tuned properly to receive the signal efficiently or even at all. Add more receivers and more load and the whole thing falls apart. The idea isn't very sound at all. It just doesn't scale well. And even if it did work, radiated signals have many dead zones where the paths of multiple reflected signals can cancel each other out. Imagine your devices failing because they moved from a good zone to a dead zone in the space of just a few feet or less. That doesn't sound very usable. You've probably heard this sort of thing happen with radio stations if you're old enough to have listened to them much in the car.

But yeah, let's keep pretending like Tesla was infallible and god-like. He was intelligent, yes, but he made many mistakes and wrong conclusions in his work. Wardenclyffe is one of those bonehead conclusions. Celebrate his real successes like the AC induction motor, fluorescent lighting and the alternating current electrical system instead of these fantastical pipe dreams that ended in failure. He was only a man after all.

It would have been a supremely inefficient and ineffective system to send power wirelessly in all directions. Aside from the exponential power losses over the distance, the receivers of the field would have an adverse effect on the transmitter. The more load a receiver puts on the signal, the more the frequency will shift. Wireless receivers are still capacitively coupled to the transmitter through the Earth. A bunch of radio receivers don't alter the transmission frequency of the radio stations because the radio receivers are a miniscule load coupled to the transmitter. Drawing off kilowatts of energy is not the same as drawing off picowatts of energy like a radio receiver would do. As the load varies, the transmitter frequency and modulated waveform will start to change. New harmonics will be induced in the transmitter tuned L/C tank (inductor, capacitor tuned resonator). This will cause less efficiency in the power transmission and the receivers will no longer be tuned properly to receive the signal efficiently or even at all. Add more receivers and more load and the whole thing falls apart. The idea isn't very sound at all. It just doesn't scale well. And even if it did work, radiated signals have many dead zones where the paths of multiple reflected signals can cancel each other out. Imagine your devices failing because they moved from a good zone to a dead zone in the space of just a few feet or less. That doesn't sound very usable. You've probably heard this sort of thing happen with radio stations if you're old enough to have listened to them much in the car. But yeah, let's keep pretending like Tesla was infallible and god-like. He was intelligent, yes, but he made many mistakes and wrong conclusions in his work. Wardenclyffe is one of those bonehead conclusions. Celebrate his real successes like the AC induction motor, fluorescent lighting and the alternating current electrical system instead of these fantastical pipe dreams that ended in failure. He was only a man after all.

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The idea isn't very sound at all. It just doesn't scale well. And even if it did work, radiated signals have many dead zones where the paths of multiple reflected signals can cancel each other out

Regardless of your opinion about Tesla's folly in pursuit of unattainable goals during his work in the field of electricity (pun intended), the story here is one of money and political power. Others stole the fruits of his labor for their own notoriety and wealth, and scorned his practical accomplishments while at the same time taking credit for them by creating brand names after themselves.

About the only thing named after Tesla is the coil, which today is considered mostly a novelty item.

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imagine if Tesla never met that greedy self serving prick J. P. Morgan...we all would be energy free as Tesla envisaged... no cold winters in the nthn hemisphere...

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I don't know why schizos have latched on to Tesla with some kind of personality cult. Reminds me of Musk. He was highly intelligent but his achievements have been overrated and exaggerated since he died.