Nikola Tesla, Capitalism, and the Fight for Free Energy -- FREE BOOK!

Hello Friends,

Today I have a story for you. It is part truth, part myth, and part mystery. Yet, we will never know the exact ratio.

For those of you familiar with Nikola Tesla, you know that the man was nothing short of a genius. Today, we still rely on many of his innovations in our everyday lives. Tesla invented the turbines responsible for creating a majority of the energy systems everywhere use today. He established Alternating Current (AC) as superior to Thomas Edison's Direct Current (DC). He revolutionized the way we use and think about electricity.

As a young inventor, Tesla looked up to Edison. He worked his way through his education and eventually made his way to America. There, he hoped to work with Edison on creating fantastic electrical devices for the world.

But Tesla's ideas of creating energy efficiently and cheaply did not match with Edison's plans to commercialize electric power. Edison was eventually forced to adopt some of Tesla's ideas, but it left a bitter taste in his mouth. Edison quickly moved to force Tesla and his ideas out of the marketplace. Edison was a fierce capitalist and tried to blacklist Tesla's name in the industry.

Eventually, Tesla managed to find limited funding for his research. He set up a lab in Colorado Springs and was working on a system to transmit signals wirelessly around the globe. Or so he told his investors....

Realistically, Tesla was working on a way to transmit both power and signals to any area of the globe. This system would effectively eliminate the need for long distance electrical transmission through wires. But, someone else figured out how to transmit signals via radio waves just before Tesla finished. He tried to explain how much more efficient and advanced his system was, but transmitting energy was not interesting to them.

Many of the companies and investors also had stakes in Edison's power system. Edison's system, in order to be profitable, relied on energy coming from central power locations with the ability to meter and restrict the flow to each house. Tesla's system, while it had the potential to liberate the world of energy and resource needs, was rejected by his investors.

Tesla never stopped researching and thinking, but people stopped listening. In his old age, he even managed to receive possibly the first radio signals from space. They were likely from pulsars, or other cosmological phenomena. Yet, Edison had newspapers publish that the old man had heard "aliens", and he was widely discredited. His last days were spent in a hotel room, paid for by one of the companies he had made rich with patents. Nikola Tesla, though he invented much of our electrical system, died a poor old man with nothing to his name.

Decades later, an electrical engineer by the name of Thomas Henry Moray came across Tesla's writings and was intrigued. Moray ended up creating a device capable of collecting electromagnetic waves in the atmosphere, resonating and amplifying the waves, and could use them to power lights and household devices continuously. Further, there were no solar panels, turbines, or other primary energy sources.

This may sound like a "perpetual motion device", something our physics teachers would simply laugh at.

But if that is how you are imagining this device, you are not seeing the bigger picture. The device worked on principles which we have observed in nature.

Have you ever heard of the term "rogue wave"? A rogue wave is a wave in the ocean which is larger than any of the surrounding waves, and seemingly random. These massive waves, which represent an accumulation of energy as they lift up a large column of water, are created when two or more waves peak at exactly the same time. The height of the rogue wave can be more than twice the height of the two waves that created it.

Tesla's device (and Moray's after), worked on this same principle. By creating an alternating current and tuning the circuits to create many rogue electrical waves, the overall energy extracted could be increased.

Moray's family was threatened, his patents were never given, and he went to the grave with the secrets to his system.

So, unfortunately, we still rely on many aspects of Edison's system which are less efficient, are highly priced because of the resources and powerplants needed to fuel the system, and often involve the burning of fossil fuels to generate the electricity in the first place.

Though I studied Biology through my Master's degree, this topic was always of high interest to me. If Tesla, Moray, and others had found such efficient methods of creating light, heat, and other uses for electricity, why were we still paying so much for something that could potentially be cheap, renewable, and safe?

I found many answers as I researched over the years. Most of them had more to do with politics and capitalism than science.

Frustrated, and not technically savvy enough to reproduce Tesla's greatest inventions, I turned to the story of how great technology can get held back in such a devastating way. The story was choppy, mysterious, and dark. As a work of non-fiction, it would have been shaky at best. The few primary sources gone, only remnants of Tesla and his work remained.

So, like so many great tales, I wrapped the story in fiction.

Without further adieu, I present the rest of the incredible tale:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NCY2NY4

Resonant
by Gabe Buckley

This full-length novel follows the story of Evan Eigenhart, a young man whose father was unfortunate enough to find the answers to free-energy. Follow Evan as he evades those who want to silence his father's technology. The story is laced with truth and history, adding all the more to the truth of Evan's fight.

Plus, this book will be FREE from:

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to

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I am notifying all of my Steemit followers because I want you to all have it for FREE. Part of the reason I started this novel was that many people encouraged me on Steemit. I wanted to give something back because I love Steemit as a platform and wanted to give it's users first access to the free version.

Thank you All for creating amazing content every single day!

I hope you read it and enjoy it! All I ask is that you leave your reviews on Amazon. Good or bad, they will help me grow and expand as an author. I would love to hear your thoughts.

Sincerely,
Gabe Buckley