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Old 02-23-2010, 02:51 AM
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Originally Posted by AustinsCE View Post
Tesla had the power issue solved decades ago. But it's not as simple as all that. There's a monopoly on power, and those that maintain it are happy to have it. Nuclear or otherwise. Hell, there's even "green" coal that emits next to nothing. Illegal to mine it. It's not to the point of figuring out what form is best, still have to get the powers that be out of the way.
Tesla made some wild discoveries and invented some nifty stuff but he did not invent a perpetual motion machine. Something has to provide the initial work to move the electrons. Energy is not lost, energy is conserved, something like that, a basic principle of physics I believe. IOW, can't get something for nothing. And the green coal thing sounds like a bit of a stretch. If it performed as well as you say and was available in abundance, I don't believe there'd be any stopping of the mining of it.
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