The government didn't stop him. He found a financial backer but once the backer realized that Tesla was planning on giving the infinite energy away for free (and thus the backer didn't make any money) the backer backed away. That's a lot of backing.
I'm not sure for the sterilization part, (which does seem unlikely for someone who has suffered like him) but there's proof that he wasn't against women's rights.
Don't believe every little thing you see. (Also, lots of people didn't like him so much so maybe he missaid something and they jumped on it. idk)
"Don't believe every little thing you see"
Believes tesla could've invented infinite energy. Seriously, he may have been brilliant, but energy costs money to make. There was no way it could ever be free
Law of conservation, not theory. It is very well understood and quantified. The specific in this case is also the First Law of Thermodynamics.
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And yes, matter can be converted to energy. The exchange is described by E=MC^2. The amount of Energy (in joules) is equal to the Mass (in kilograms) multiplied buy the Speed of Light squared.
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Given one kilogram of mass and 100% efficient total conversion, you would release 89.9 petajoules of energy. I can't be sure because notation on my calculator doesn't go that high... but I think that's approximately equal to 15,000 Hiroshima bombs.
How would conversions be not 100% inefficient? What would be wasted, it's either energy or matter, if it's not 100% that means that some matter isn't used up.
It would be dispersed into light energy or heat energy or into the friction in the mechanisms in the machine, or sound. Basically it'll be partly electrical energy (which is what you want) and mostly other energies because the equipment used to dematerialise matter probably isn't that advanced yet.
I say efficiency not (nessasarily) as an indication to the expected losses to thermodynamics, but as to how much of the material actually experiences mass equivalency conversion.
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For comparison:
The bomb core of the Hiroshima bomb was 64 kikograms of Uranium (enriched to an average 80%). Of that, it is estimated that only one kilogram underwent nuclear fission... Of that, only .6 grams experienced equivalency conversion. Of the core weight, that is only 9.4x10e-8 percent... 0.000000094%.
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Saying 100% conversion is only a hypothetical discussion point. Even a matter/antimatter reaction which is believed might be the most efficient means of conversion, will still have "losses" due to particle formation and decay.
He actually succeeded at this by wirelessly powering a light bulb 2 miles from his tower, but ww2 broke out and government took down his tower for military purposes, and the reason why no one has been able to reproduce tesla's inventions is because tesla never made blueprints it was all in his head, pretty amazing person
If you sacrifice matter you can get enormous amounts of energy for a relatively small sacrifice. Smitty math'd it out, one kg would create 89.9 petajoules (8.99e16 J)
Here's the wiki page for random crap.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_%28energy%29
Tesla was great, but even HE had to obey the second and third laws of thermodynamics. You can't have infinite free energy. Yes, you can convert matter to energy, but it's hardly free. We have nuclear reactors, and they're not free to build, plus the uranium isn't free to mione or enrich.
i understand but everyone makes such a big deal out of how the government people were such douchebags, i think everyone needs to calm down about tesla and the guy who hiked up the drug prices - they are both unfair stories but just stop posting the same stuff every day
"goddamnit financial world"
Don't believe every little thing you see. (Also, lots of people didn't like him so much so maybe he missaid something and they jumped on it. idk)
Believes tesla could've invented infinite energy. Seriously, he may have been brilliant, but energy costs money to make. There was no way it could ever be free
.
And yes, matter can be converted to energy. The exchange is described by E=MC^2. The amount of Energy (in joules) is equal to the Mass (in kilograms) multiplied buy the Speed of Light squared.
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Given one kilogram of mass and 100% efficient total conversion, you would release 89.9 petajoules of energy. I can't be sure because notation on my calculator doesn't go that high... but I think that's approximately equal to 15,000 Hiroshima bombs.
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For comparison:
The bomb core of the Hiroshima bomb was 64 kikograms of Uranium (enriched to an average 80%). Of that, it is estimated that only one kilogram underwent nuclear fission... Of that, only .6 grams experienced equivalency conversion. Of the core weight, that is only 9.4x10e-8 percent... 0.000000094%.
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Saying 100% conversion is only a hypothetical discussion point. Even a matter/antimatter reaction which is believed might be the most efficient means of conversion, will still have "losses" due to particle formation and decay.
http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/evil-capitalists-prevent-nikola-tesla-creating-free-energy/
Here's the wiki page for random crap.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_%28energy%29