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Tesla's vision of global access to affordable energy
1. The altruistic goal of Tesla and the energy situation
Nikola Tesla performed during his lifetime a lot of discoveries, some of them we use
daily and others not, but perhaps his most ambitious project was the desire to literally
“activate earth power", to “plug earth like a toaster” If this had been achieved is as if for
all human beings electric energy was accessible only by being on the planet, like a birth
right. Tesla was more a visionary and a humanist who thought it was a right of people
access to energy. This idea, if political power would adopt it, it was a big step to reduce
inequality, improve the living standards of the household economies of the poorest
people. In most of Africa and some parts of Asia, electricity is available only to les of
20% of the population, is impressive to contemplate, in satellite photographs taken at
night, a whole continent covered by a blanket of darkness.
Would begin to create a fairer world where the electric action would become a resource
whose benefits do not discriminate against anyone, no longer just an empty talk of
"globalization" but to globalize the opportunities of different social classes inside
countries and equal opportunities of third world countries when compared to developed
ones. Fossil fuels and hydro electrical plants are still the most inexpensive and efficient
electrification projects. We can’t impose alternative, more expensive and less efficient
and power to regions where poverty and underdevelopment reigns. In regions of the
planet that have not enjoyed something as basic as electricity, if you give’em a solar
panel, its better than nothing, but with this technology which a very low energy density
rate, considering the space they need and their overall cost does not become even a
fraction of hydrocarbons or hydroelectrically power.
Countries should seek their sovereignty and energy independence. Dependence on oil
companies or oil cartels is not beneficial because it is a basic resource and developing
countries are more "hungry" than industrialized countries for reasons of justice as well.
The rhetoric of global warming is nothing more than that, rhetoric that has the scientific
world divided and is not the real reason for stop the third world “momentum” and put in
disadvantage poor countries. It is not necessary to enter into discussions if it is true or
false global warming as we are deviating from the main problems are as poverty, health,
food and war. Personally to bury the myth of global warming caused by carbon dioxide
emissions produced by man convinced me two graphs presented in the documentary
"global warming swindle." Solar activity over time is proportional to global warming
and the activity of the clouds formed by cosmic rays is inversely proportional. These
graphs match like a puzzle. If anyone needed further proof, there are many arguments,
just check that the planet has been cooling for the last 10 years or that the sea is by far
the largest emitter of carbon dioxide.
If a country has sources of energy should be that fact exploited and not be influenced by
international organizations or foundations that environmental campaigns that are just
looking for how to spend their funds with a beneficial result of course. Global warming,
produced a billion dollar industry in the world and even greater expectations for banks
that would handle the Cap& Trade project preached by Al Gore, witch is often used by
politicians to appear before the voters as environmentally friendly. Alternative energies
should be tested for their efficiency and cost-benefit ratio not fads.
Tesla's Dream altruistic must try to achieve, if you can to make it accessible free energy
of the cheapest way possible, is a social debt and a commitment to develop,
2. industrialize, to keep up on the backlog. Environmental efforts can be directed at real
problems such as deforestation or water pollution and regulation for the disposal of
chemical wastes, to real situations that cause diseases and problems seen and felt in the
ecosystem, not illusory fabrications of consensus.