The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, With Special References to the Harnessing of the Sun’s Energy

Nikola Tesla

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Part philosophical ponderings on humanity"s relationship to the universe, part scientific extrapolation on what technological advancement might bring to that understanding, this long essay, first...

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The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, With Special References to the Harnessing of the Sun’s Energy

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The Onward Movement of Man — the Energy of the Movement — the Three Ways of Increasing Human Energy

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The First Problem: How to Increase the Human Mass — the Burning of Atmospheric Nitrogen

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The Second Problem: How to Reduce the Force Retarding the Human Mass — the Art of Telautomatics

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The Third Problem: How to Increase the Force Accelerating the Human Mass — the Harnessing of the Sun’s Energy

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The Source of Human Energy — the Three Ways of Drawing Energy from the Sun

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Great Possibilities Offered by Iron for Increasing Human Performance — Enormous Waste in Iron Manufacture

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Economical Production of Iron by a New Process

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The Coming Age of Aluminium — Doom of the Copper Industry — the Great Civilizing Potency of the New Metal

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Efforts Toward Obtaining More Energy from Coal — the Electric Transmission — the Gas-engine — the Cold-coal Battery

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Energy from the Medium — the Windmill and the Solar Engine — Motive Power from Terrestrial Heat —

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A Departure from Known Methods — Possibility of a “Self-acting” Engine or Machine, Inanimate, Yet Capable, like a Living Being, of Deriving Energy from the Medium — the Ideal Way of Obtaining Motive Power

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First Efforts to Produce the Self-acting Engine — the Mechanical Oscillator — Work of Dewar and Linde — Liquid Air

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Discovery of Unexpected Properties of The. Atmosphere — Strange Experiments — Transmission of Electrical Energy Through One Wire Without Return — Transmission Through the Earth Without Any Wire

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“Wireless” Telegraphy — the Secret of Tuning — Errors in the Hertzian Investigations — a Receiver of Wonderful Sensitiveness

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Development of a New Principle — the Electrical Oscillator — Production of Immense Electrical Movements — the Earth Responds to Man — Interplanetary Communication Now Probable

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Transmission of Electrical Energy to Any Distance Without Wires — Now Practicable — the Best Means of Increasing the Force Accelerating the Human Mass

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