20 March 2010, mkrause
The Tesla film project got a lot of understanding, interest and support during the “dragonforum” workshop in Warszaw. We will see whether this topic will be picked up by commissioning editors. The following Tesla symposium in Vienna was well attended, and the Tesla presentation “On the Road to Tesla” was really well received. The following interview for the yugoslavian newspaper VESTI was a surprise: the VESTI journalist mistook WWI with WWII, and so - within VESTI - Tesla became collaborator with the Nazis. NONSENSE! But an uproar within the Serbian community was the result: OUR Tesla never worked for the Nazis! And this is true; because Tesla worked for Telefunken in WWI. Tesla never worked for the Nazis. He was good friends with George Sylvester Viereck, who promoted Hitler in the US - and was sentenced because of this engagement to 4 years imprisoment in the U.S., though.
9 March 2010, mkrause
Whereever you look, it is JJ Thomson who is considered the discoverer of the electron as a fundamental sub-atomic particle in 1897. But, if you look further, there had been a long discussion about the nature of cathode rays; in short, British physicists assigned a particle character to those rays (Sir William Crookes, a friend of Tesla’s), whereas German physicists in this controversy opted for a wave character. Tesla, in a newspaper article (”On Roentgen rays”, Electrical Review, March 18, 1896), wrote: “I see in these shocks a further evidence of larger particles thrown off from the bulb“. In his discussion about the topic with Thomson, Tesla grounded his conclusion on the personal experience of a “sometimes even painful, shock in the eye“. This characterizes Tesla’s method: it wasn’t scientific in a lot of senses, but he discovered scientific phenomena earlier than his contemporaries. As Boris Tadic, president of Serbia, puts it: “There are not many from this region who grew to realize their visions. Those who did are our common heritage.”
25 February 2010, mkrause
I. The new Tesla documentary “On the Road to Tesla” was invited to take part in dragonforum workshop, starting March 10. So, a new docu-fiction on Nikola Tesla, the man who invented the 2oth century is on the way. It will be inspiring to see Tesla’s life, his ways and his impact on technology and modern society in fabulous pictures. II. The new 43- minute presentation on Tesla will be held in Vienna on March 12, during the opening night of the Tesla Symposion, with Tesla celibrities such as Konstantin Meyl, PhD., Joerg Schauberger, Paul laViolette, PhD., and Leslie Szabo, presenting his 50 KW- overunity-system. Come to see the future!
13 February 2010, mkrause
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.
