the real future of the automobile?

[Matra et Alpine]

Westinghouse ( and Edison ) pushed Tesla and his ideas into the background of their huge fight over transmission over wires.
See, you can CHARGE for energy deliverd by wire.
But Tesla's system transmitted energy and whoever picked up the radiowaves used it.
So NOT what the focus of capitalists like E and W ever wanted.

Besides, we worry about the impact of energy waves from mobile phones and background radiation from wires. Imagine the possibilities with a Tesla Tower every few miles

The man was so far ahead intellectually and elsctrically than Edison ( or Westinghouse ) it was frightening. He saw energy as somethgin to be shared. Even so far as GIVING Westinghouse rights on his patents because the man claimed his company coudlnt' afford to pay. So despite his genius, Tesla was a bit of a mug

And so likewise, Edison as he did with so many other people had him removed/written out of American industrialisation.

I recommend ANYONE with any interest in engineering and intellectual pursuit shoudl read about Tesla. He was a REALLY fascinating man and intellectually so far ahead of anyoen else on the planet.

[Kitdy]

I recommend ANYONE with any interest in engineering and intellectual pursuit shoudl read about Tesla. He was a REALLY fascinating man and intellectually so far ahead of anyoen else on the planet.

Well, Neils Bohr, James Clerk Maxwell (a stretch) and Einstein were around at the same time.

[LHamilton_w]

The real future is mostly fossil fuels in our lifetimes....and beyond that fossil fuels will still be a large part.

Agreed Dino. Until they're all gone, fossil fuels will never go away IMO. Electric cars are nice, but I just can't imagine what it would be like w/o fuel-powered cars.

[NSXType-R]

Fossil fuels will be with us in our lifetimes, sure... but increasingly for industrial/military needs, and will be so for the next few hundred years. The world population is conservatively projected to reach nearly 21 Billion between 2100 and 2300. Those numbers will render increased road transit infrastructure untenable. That is, if food production, water availability and health issues hold at levels making such a sustained population even possible. Most curves show a drop of 1-2 billion over that period, ultimately stabilizing. Fossil fuel is the least they'll need
to worry about.

I agree, we'll hit "peak food", and more importantly peak water before we hit peak oil, in my opinion, and the sad case is that we'll probably see it in our lifetimes.

Westinghouse ( and Edison ) pushed Tesla and his ideas into the background of their huge fight over transmission over wires.
See, you can CHARGE for energy deliverd by wire.
But Tesla's system transmitted energy and whoever picked up the radiowaves used it.
So NOT what the focus of capitalists like E and W ever wanted.

Besides, we worry about the impact of energy waves from mobile phones and background radiation from wires. Imagine the possibilities with a Tesla Tower every few miles

The man was so far ahead intellectually and elsctrically than Edison ( or Westinghouse ) it was frightening. He saw energy as somethgin to be shared. Even so far as GIVING Westinghouse rights on his patents because the man claimed his company coudlnt' afford to pay. So despite his genius, Tesla was a bit of a mug

And so likewise, Edison as he did with so many other people had him removed/written out of American industrialisation.

I recommend ANYONE with any interest in engineering and intellectual pursuit shoudl read about Tesla. He was a REALLY fascinating man and intellectually so far ahead of anyoen else on the planet.

Hey, just the fact that Edison wanted to prove to Tesla that DC was better than AC and Tesla proved him completely wrong is proof enough what sort of man Edison was. Edison went to slander and electrocuting an elephant to show how dangerous AC was. Electricity isn't dangerous, it's the amps that will get you!

[roosterjuicer]

Had to go google to check as I was sure Tesla would have tried this.
He did.
Tesla was promoting radiowaves energy transmission at the same time Edison amd Westinghouse were locked in how to send it over wires.

I'm still mad at Tesla for inventing the Tesla Coil which resulted in the smoldering death and destruction of so many of my good, brave soldiers in Red Alert.

[lenco12]

I doubt it. Who wants to invest billions onto infrastructure? They don't have batteries, they're always tethered to charging in the road. There's no way anyone's going to pay for that, let alone hydrogen gas stations.

The real future is mostly fossil fuels in our lifetimes....and beyond that fossil fuels will still be a large part.
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[RacingManiac]

BTW, irony of the week is the winner of the Automotive X-Prize, the winning car was a ethonal burning, conventional IC Engine powered, hybrid-less super lightweight car that can carry 4 and deliver over 100mpg. Weight is the key, as is through the understanding of many....

[Kitdy]

The real real future of the automobile?

I don't have time to read this now - gotta go out.

Schmidt said something about this a few weeks ago - that people that people shouldn't drive cars. I dunno if they knew he was serious.

[sneha123]

Hello friends ,,,,,, This is sneha here,,,I'm new in this site.....The real future is mostly fossil fuels in our lifetimes....and beyond that fossil fuels will still be a large part..........Thanks lot....

[henk4]

Hello friends ,,,,,, This is sneha here,,,I'm new in this site.....The real future is mostly fossil fuels in our lifetimes....and beyond that fossil fuels will still be a large part..........Thanks lot....

Welcome, however, do not spam in your signature, please.

[Badsight]

tesla's ideas might get ignored by industry , but so what !

universities are not limited to what makes money , if there was any , ANY potential in tesla's wireless idea's they would have been researched & we would have had it decades ago

its the same with all the "water based fuel" elixers & "oil industry" horded designs . the oil industry cant control research worldwide in our uni's

if there was a viable alternative to fossil fuels we would be hearing about it

by 2050 , planet earth is going to be a really horrible place to live for human beings

[culver]

We seem to be getting a lot of these spam signature posters. Can we just remove their posts entirely?

[f6fhellcat13]

its the same with all the "water based fuel" elixers & "oil industry" horded designs . the oil industry cant control research worldwide in our uni's

Who pays for schools to do research?