{"id":13254,"date":"2022-04-07T09:52:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T09:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/?p=13254"},"modified":"2022-04-07T09:52:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T09:52:21","slug":"did-teslas-cosmic-energy-collector-actually-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/did-teslas-cosmic-energy-collector-actually-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Tesla&#8217;s Cosmic Energy Collector actually work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_twitter_via = \"datebytype\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"datebytype\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Did Tesla&#039;s Cosmic Energy Collector actually work?\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n<p><em>The following answer is from Quora:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"245\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/main-qimg-e9203c42b345310846aa88f8887c816b.gif?resize=602%2C245&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13255\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I built a crude copy and found interesting things. It&#8217;s not a &#8220;cosmic energy collector.&#8221; Instead it&#8217;s an extremely sensitive detector. It picks up voltages (e-fields,) and is incredibly sensitive to ion flows in air. It&#8217;s a radio-wave detector from before catswhiskers or vacuum tubes. Also, it should easily detect ionizing radiation. Tesla&#8217;s actual patent shows it being used as a radiation alarm which rings whenever hit by beams of x-rays. So, it\u2019s a Geiger counter, invented years before Hans Geiger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The essence of Tesla\u2019s invention is to &#8220;chop&#8221; any electrostatic signals coming from a capacitor plate, producing fairly enormous pulses, so they can be heard by human ears: as sound in headphones. In the decade before vacuum-tube amplifiers existed, Tesla\u2019s idea harnesses exquisitely sensitive human hearing as a detector. Also, unlike detectors such as phosphor screens or foil-leaf electroscopes, the pulses can become&nbsp;<em>part of electronic products<\/em>, where a weak signal can trigger relay-coils (which Tesla calls &#8220;circuit controllers.&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While building one of these, I realized that very obviously this device is based on the Branly Coherer radio detector. But in comparison, the Branly Coherer has low sensitivity. Tesla\u2019s device, rather than depending on a fairly high voltage-threshold of iron particles being micro-welded, (and, rather than requiring a mechanical tapper to reset,) instead it directly harnesses the Coherer concept: the sudden closing of a switch to dump the charge created by a signal. But Tesla builds his version out of macro components, with no metal powder involved, and his continuous clockwork &#8220;tapper&#8221; is part of the detection, rather than a reset-device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since Tesla\u2019s version needs no breakover-voltage (and so will operate all the way down to zero threshold,) and since it can be selectively slowed down to clicks-per-minute, it might be 10,000x more sensitive than Branly&#8217;s Coherer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along these lines, Tesla may have secretly intended this patent to be a radio detector, with a metal plate as an antenna, while Tesla carefully keeps this side-application secret, yet being able to patent the device. So, besides detecting x-rays, it also functions as a &#8220;Poulsen Tikker&#8221; -style of radio detector (which was independently invented a decade later,) and was a design fit for the VLF radio band which Tesla was using at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you experiment yourself, using metal foil and buzzing relay-contacts, you&#8217;ll find that the plate will be completely swamped by 60Hz environmental voltage signals. Build yourself a shielded room? Otherwise, the plate must be enclosed within a small grounded shield. To detect ions or hard radiation, put a big window in your little shield, covered with a few wires stretched across the opening, or with coarse metal screening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That, or move your lab waaaay out in the country, far away from all AC power lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I conclude that most descriptions of this invention are loads of crap, with the main mistake being misinterpretation of Tesla&#8217;s term &#8220;Radiant Energy.&#8221; This term came from Tesla&#8217;s hero, Prof. W. Crookes, and \u201cradiant energy\u201d means the same as modern terms &#8220;ionizing radiation&#8221; or &#8220;nuclear radiation,&#8221; possibly also including ultraviolet light and radio waves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, the patent title actually means &#8220;Method for Detecting Ionizing Radiation.&#8221; Decades before the Geiger-Muller counter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second mistake people make is in not realizing that, at the time of Tesla\u2019s patent, vacuum tubes and amplifiers didn&#8217;t exist. Tesla\u2019s invention is a major advance compared to many other sensors of that era: relatively immense output, in the form of slow pulses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a radiation detector, Tesla&#8217;s invention was more sensitive than foil-leaf electroscopes or phosphor screens; the scintillators. In modern language, it&#8217;s the first Geiger Counter, but invented decades early. It&#8217;s also a voltage-detector like a foil-leaf electroscope, but automated, where its pulse signals are large enough to be used by electrical products &#8230;or, for extreme sensitivity, detected as faint audible clicking-sounds in headphones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, this invention harnessed the photoelectric effect of metal surfaces, and would become charged when x-rays or hard UV would knock electrons out of the metal plate. Tesla accidentally discovered the Photoelectric Effect? And even patented it?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone today would recognize Tesla\u2019s invention if his detector-plate was placed inside an argon-filled glass tube, adjacent to another electrode. It&#8217;s the Phototube or &#8220;electric eye,&#8221; but invented years before phototubes existed, and operated in open air with no glass tube. It&#8217;s the competition for the Selenium Cell \u201celectric eye\u201d already being used at the time. It&#8217;s the Geiger-Muller tube, but with no HV supply, and where its operating voltage is provided by the radiation striking its surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it an \u201cenergy\u201d receiver? Of course. But, signal-level energy only. (Did Tesla say differently?) Photo-tubes don\u2019t work as well as solar cells, but both are energy-receivers. Tesla\u2019s device is more similar to the &#8220;Crookes Radiometer,&#8221; with its spinning black and white paddles, in that it\u2019s not intended for directly powering motors. Instead it&#8217;s a Victorian Steampunk Geiger Counter. Or, it becomes the commands-receptor for drone robots controlled remotely by narrow directed communication beams (tesla x-ray beams, since microwave beams didn&#8217;t yet exist.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qr.ae\/pvKSiP\">https:\/\/qr.ae\/pvKSiP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/TESLA-FREE-ENERGY-COLLECTOR\/\">https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/TESLA-FREE-ENERGY-COLLECTOR\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_twitter_via = \"datebytype\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"datebytype\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Did Tesla&#039;s Cosmic Energy Collector actually work?\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_twitter_via = \"datebytype\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"datebytype\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Did Tesla&#039;s Cosmic Energy Collector actually work?\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>The following answer is from Quora: I built a crude copy and found interesting things. It&#8217;s not a &#8220;cosmic energy collector.&#8221; Instead it&#8217;s an extremely sensitive detector. It picks up voltages (e-fields,) and is incredibly sensitive to ion flows in air. It&#8217;s a radio-wave detector from before catswhiskers or vacuum tubes. Also, it should easily detect ionizing radiation. Tesla&#8217;s actual patent shows it being used as a radiation alarm which rings whenever hit by beams of x-rays. So, it\u2019s a Geiger counter, invented years before Hans Geiger. The essence of Tesla\u2019s invention is to &#8220;chop&#8221; any electrostatic signals coming from a capacitor plate, producing fairly enormous pulses, so they can be heard by human ears: as sound in headphones. 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