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Old 08-25-2010, 12:59 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Phantom View Post
Nikola Tesla supposedly had a car that was powered by attenuating an antenna to the resonance frequency of Earths magnetic fields and converting that to usable power. The bad thing is Tesla never wrote down his work unless he was getting it patented so no help there.

If we are going to try this it would be best to try and use the power that we are dumping into the air from AM/FM radio we know how to tune to that.
Yes, the pioneer of electricity knows way more about it than modern professors of the science In fact, Alexander Bell knew more about cell phones than we know today, but sadly he forgot to write that down too. The Write Bros. shortly after learning how to keep a plane in the air for a few seconds, later went on to invent a perpetual flying machine, but again they failed to document how it works. It's really a shame that all the brilliant people are now dead.

On the subject of lunatic ideas, I propose a car that harnesses the power of hamsters. They really like to run in those exercise wheels, so why not power a car with that energy? We could pull the engine and replace it with 100 hamsters. 100 horsepower... no, even better, 100 hamsterpower!
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