Tesla > Edison

[Meatball]

My sister sent me this the other day. Having thought I knew lots about Nikolas Tesla, I went ahead and read it. Its very amusing and informative, I hope you guys enjoy it!

From the folks at the oatmeal,

Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived - The Oatmeal

 

[Jaseth]

You should download and watch this.
http://laserpointerforums.com/f48/nicolas-tesla-movie-72955.html

Tesla - Master of Lightning

 

[Flaminpyro]

This is pretty darn good and everyone here should read this as it's TRUE !

I donated to the Tesla museum and I hope every one else here will also

 

[grainde]

That was great, both entertaining and factual! It should be made compulsory reading for all school kids! Thanks for sharing :beer:

 

[Cel]

Yep, Tesla was a great man, and Edison screwed him.
But Tesla didn't give up, he knew that he would help creating a better world with FREE WIRELESS ELECTRICAL ENERGY.
But ofc, capitalist &%$% didn't like (no earning money) that so they abandoned him, and maybe even worked against him.

Life is unfair...

 

[InfinitusEquitas]

Came across this today on my facebook feed. Thought I'd also share it here...

 

[Meatball]

^^I like that.

Too bad Tesla's ideal form of power generation was solely hydro-generation. Today he might be appalled to find that most American power is still derived from coal..

Why can't we build some nice nuclear plants around here anymore?

There are far most coal mining accidents every month than there are nuclear accidents in a year.

 

[InfinitusEquitas]

Why can't we build some nice nuclear plants around here anymore?

There are far most coal mining accidents every month than there are nuclear accidents in a year.

Paranoia. Whole lot of paranoia.

Say the word radiation to people, and watch their reaction. It's NEVER a positive reaction.

In terms of safety, nuclear power plants are far less harmful than coal. No new plants will be built anytime soon though. Especially not after the fukushima disaster.

 

[Meatball]

Ahhh FUKushima...

I still have a hard time convincing people that their microwave will not make them dumber (they're already too dumb for that to be possible), and that their cells phones will not make antennae shaped tumors on the side of their brain.

Needs moar education.

 

[InfinitusEquitas]

Hmm, we should get these pins printed to hand out to these folks...

 

[gillza]

Fukushima = paranoia. Instead of investing into the improvement of the technology to make it save the most common knee-jerk reaction is to demolish and forget...

 

[Seoul_lasers]

Fukushima = paranoia. Instead of investing into the improvement of the technology to make it save the most common knee-jerk reaction is to demolish and forget...

Nuclear is still cleaner in many ways than a lot of other power Generation methodologies, that being said TEPCO as a crown co. In Japan had a train wreak of Nuclear disasters dating into the late 1990s. One incident I happened to be in Japan for occurred in Tokaimura in 1999.
3 nuclear workers making fuel pellets dumped too much enriched fuel into the hopper at a time resulting in a massive flash of neutrons. 10km evacuation zone. All 3 workers died.
Many people were forced to evacuate.
When you have a problem with nuclear fuel things can go VERY wrong. Unfortunately many of these companies take risky shortcuts. TEPCO is a prime example of how some of these companies self inspect, and in doing so put the local population (Japanese public) at grave danger.
I don't doubt that nuclear energy has potential, obviously it can and does.
Safety around nuclear energy is just far too important to take shortcuts.
Cheap out = major disaster.



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An aside,
The Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan, hit me particularly hard as I had lived near minami soma in 1999. 3 students that were middle school friends of mine died and my family friends lost everything.
We actually got a phonecall from one family who called Canada to say they were ok a week after the disaster.
Other families we knew were still listed as missing by the RedCoss. 2 were found abroad, 3 others were never found. We learned that one family was on route to Sendai from Aomori by train. It was one of the trains reported missing.