Being a Trump and MAGA supporter, I have to wonder what you are smoking. Trying to help the world is a noble intention---but failing to do that is an unhappy outcome.
His transmitter never worked. (I presume you are talking about the Wardenclyffe installation).
The ability of someone obsessed with an idea is limited only by their conviction and patience---not because the idea is feasible. Tesla had no sense of practicality. He lived in a very nice hotel and at his death left behind a huge debt in lodging and dining.
He was at complete liberty to implement his systems---but he had to beg for money because he was NOT a man of means. It's like any freedom under the Bill of Rights: your freedom to do something does not include the freedom to reach into my wallet. He had generous supporters, but they finally tired of his ideas that were leading nowhere. He ran out of money, couldn't get more, and just walked away. The installation just sat there. Eventually, the land owner had it demolished for other purposes. It might have been as solid at the Statue of Liberty---but it produced about the same amount of electricity. (For an example, Paul Moller worked on his skycar for 40 years, spending $100 M, and it came to nothing. His company has been unheard from since 2015. There is a lesson, here.)
I have no desire to take anything away from Tesla, but neither do I have any patience when the thoroughly uneducated to endow him with a level of genius and precognition that is not warranted by the unremarkable final decades of his life.
Being a Trump and MAGA supporter, I have to wonder what you are smoking. Trying to help the world is a noble intention---but failing to do that is an unhappy outcome.
His transmitter never worked. (I presume you are talking about the Wardenclyffe installation).
The ability of someone obsessed with an idea is limited only by their conviction and patience---not because the idea is feasible. Tesla had no sense of practicality. He lived in a very nice hotel and at his death left behind a huge debt in lodging and dining.
He was at complete liberty to implement his systems---but he had to beg for money because he was NOT a man of means. It's like any freedom under the Bill of Rights: your freedom to do something does not include the freedom to reach into my wallet. He had generous supporters, but they finally tired of his ideas that were leading nowhere. He ran out of money, couldn't get more, and just walked away. The installation just sat there. Eventually, the land owner had it demolished for other purposes. It might have been as solid at the Statue of Liberty---but it produced about the same amount of electricity. (For an example, Paul Moller worked on his skycar for 40 years, spending $100 M, and it came to nothing. His company has been unheard from since 2015. There is a lesson, here.)
I have no desire to take anything away from Tesla, but neither do I have any patience when the thoroughly uneducated to endow him with a level of genius and precognition that is not warranted by the unremarkable final decades of his life.