1 February 2010, mkrause
“It must be clear to every one that soon some new source of power supply must be opened up…” is a conclusion in one of Nikola Tesla’s lesser known articles. In “The Mission of science” (Free Press Detroit, 2. Sep. 1900) Tesla foresaw energy supplied ”by the energy of the medium…”, and what he really meant was sustainable energy (in our words). At that time, Tesla was sure he would live to see a world abundant in energy, sustainable energy. Today, not enough people listen, or care, or even do something - a mammouth re-orientation into the direction of sustainable energy supply is necessary. You can’t image how foolish and common human ignorance still is. Most of the people are even too idle to think about new ways of doing things, they just refuse everything. Can this still be true: Crisis, what crisis? Just recently, a huge German Museum for technology refused to present Nikola Tesla - not even a presentation juiced up with one of those Tesla roadsters would help: “Currently, there is no need from our side for a presentation on Tesla.” What?
27 January 2010, mkrause
Energy is everywhere. In the air, even. A new device, soon available for 40 Dollars, will pick frequency wave energy from Wifi spots out of the air, and use it to charge the batteries of your cell-phone, for example. If the WiFi energy is enough to charge your batteries, there must be more to get out of the air that we breathe. Until now, air is used to burn fossil fuels for the production of energy. From now on, we should think different. There is magic energy in the air, not only tonight.
21 January 2010, mkrause
The Wall Street Journal recently (14/01/2010) featured Nikola Tesla as a “scientist and inventor who achieved fame and fortune in the 1880s” and now, more than 60 years after he died penniless at the New Yorker Hotel has “gone into mainstream pop glory”. This is true, but maybe there is more than that. Tesla is much more than a pop icon; this is true for David Bowie, who played Nikola Tesla in “The Prestige” (directed by Christopher Nolan). For Tesla, the picture must be painted in a bigger frame. Tesla envisioned the modern world and he always connected technology with ethical issues. This point was neglected during the last, the 2oth century. Now it is time to live this connection, or else …
12 January 2010, mkrause
Since some time there is a kind of ‘discussion’ going on that Tesla has caused the Tunguska incident. The logic behind this ‘discussion’ is very simple: Tesla had built Wardenclyffe; Tesla had announced “bolts of Thor” - his death-ray concept - and Tesla wanted to show his concept was working. Mixing all this together, there you have Tesla causing a catastrophic explosion just to sell his invention -voila the mad scientist is born. As long as this kind of ‘discussion’ is going on, Tesla will be perceived as a madman. Sorry.
6 January 2010, mkrause
67 years ago, Nikola Tesla was seen for the last time - alive. Next day would be orthodox Christmas, but Tesla was dead already. Alone in room #3327 in the New Yorker Hotel, Tesla left this world.
29 December 2009, mkrause
Tesla is the perfect example for the failed genius. Furthermore, you can show a lot of the history of the past 150 years with Tesla. He is also a role model for what not to do in the future, because men’s most dangerous enemy is his own hubris. Tesla regarded the cosmos as a gigantic building site, and himself as the construction manager. This attitude had to fail in the end. All Best for 2010!
20 December 2009, mkrause
The Copenhagen conference (COP15) shows how unimportant the true issues of humanity are treated in the 21st century. It is the political collapse of the environmental movement, the victory of economy over reason. Now, there seems to be only one way left: one by one, the public has to be informed about the real extent of the climate catastrophe we’re already in. We humans need oxygen, and we are burning it up and replace it with CO2. What did Tesla say: “This method is barbarous!”
15 December 2009, mkrause
Hi! The Dec. 11-presentation “How Nikola Tesla invented the 20th century” at the cultural center Urania in Berlin was very well attended and got some big applause. The newly sketched presentation (running time: 43 minutes) and the film “All About Tesla - the research” in its 42 minute-version was followed by a lively Q&A, mirroring the awareness and public interest in Nikola Tesla and his work as well. Various topics were discussed, starting with interest in Tesla’s later years and his becoming a role model of the “mad scientist”, and ending with remarks placing Tesla in the same realm as Leonardo daVinci. Hopefully you can see the presentation in a venue near you soon …
3 December 2009, mkrause
Friday December 11th 7:30 p.m. URANIA BERLIN
dialogue with the screen - performance/book presentation/doc film
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) is one of the most important masterminds of the modern age, thanks to his thoughts we have energy (AC) and telecommunication (radio). Tesla’s life is like a thriller /w ingredients of science, money and power, and - becoming more important in the future, Nikola Tesla is the visionary of an ecological energy concept for the 21st century.
28 November 2009, mkrause
When Tesla was going to die, U.S. authorities had to deal with the problem how to seize his property. It was understood that the stuff was valuable, regarding Tesla’s repeated reports of particle beam weapons and death-ray machines. A trick was found. Authorities declared Tesla’s belongings as alien property so it could be seized by the Office of Alien Property. This made it possible to get a hold of the stuff immediately after Tesla’s death. But it also meant that now that it was alien, Sava Kosanovic, Tesla’s nephew, could put his hands on Tesla’s heritage in the end. So, with a little clever trick, the U.S. deprived herself of the physical heritage of Tesla. But still, his concepts, visions and ideas are still for free.
