{"id":17890,"date":"2018-05-22T15:24:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T19:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/?p=17890"},"modified":"2018-05-22T17:21:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T21:21:03","slug":"tesla-inventor-of-the-modern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/2018\/05\/22\/tesla-inventor-of-the-modern\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla: Inventor of the Modern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"697e\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--figure\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/38\/files\/2018\/05\/1_TK-9-M0j4frHf7srzgDeRA-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17896\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/38\/files\/2018\/05\/1_TK-9-M0j4frHf7srzgDeRA-1-204x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/38\/files\/2018\/05\/1_TK-9-M0j4frHf7srzgDeRA-1-204x300.jpeg 204w, https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/38\/files\/2018\/05\/1_TK-9-M0j4frHf7srzgDeRA-1.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a>The following is an excerpt from Tesla, Inventor of the Modern, a new book by Dick Munson\u00a0published in May 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--figure\">Nikola Tesla gave us the electric motor, long-distance electricity transmission, radio, robots, and remote control\u200a\u2014\u200athe very foundations of our modern economy. Perhaps less well known is that he also was a clean-energy pioneer, and he remains an inspiration to today\u2019s solar and battery entrepreneurs, including Elon Musk, who views him as a hero and contributed $1 million to help restore Tesla\u2019s laboratory on Long Island.<\/p>\n<p id=\"93d3\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">Tesla marked his clean-energy leadership with a 1900 article in\u00a0<em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">The Century<\/em>\u200a\u2014\u200athen the nation\u2019s largest-circulation periodical. Published 118 years ago, \u201cThe Problem of Increasing Human Energy, with Special References to the Harnessing of the Sun\u2019s Energy\u201d was one of the earliest, detailed looks at capturing power from the sun and wind.<\/p>\n<p id=\"2916\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">At his core, Tesla appreciated efficiency and hated energy waste, complaining that we \u201cdo not utilize more than 2 percent of coal\u2019s energy\u201d to make electricity. \u201cThe man who should stop this senseless waste would be a great benefactor of humanity,\u201d he declared.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>[Tweet &#8220;New book, &#8220;Tesla: Inventor of the Modern&#8221;, spotlights a clean-energy pioneer&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p id=\"149c\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--figure\">Tesla, of course, thought big, sometimes unreasonably so. One of his grander proposals was to send artificial lightning into the ground, take advantage of the planet\u2019s electric charge, and prompt resonance in order to allow everyone around the world to plug into the earth and obtain essentially free electricity.<\/p>\n<p id=\"d3c9\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">As the world faces major challenges\u200a\u2014\u200afrom climate change to pervasive poverty, Tesla, who died 75 years ago, remains particularly relevant. We need inventors\u200a\u2014\u200apeople willing and able to see the world differently\u200a\u2014\u200aand Tesla epitomizes the inventive spirit. Commenting on the excitement of discovery, he wrote: \u201cI do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.\u201d <div class=\"simplePullQuote right\"><p>He worked tirelessly to offer electric power freely to the world and to build robots that would reduce life\u2019s drudgery.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p id=\"8cd4\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">While most of today\u2019s innovations are developed by teams within universities, federal laboratories and corporate research centers, Tesla demonstrated the power of what he called cerebral engineering. He claimed to be able to visualize inventions in his head, where he would test alternative configurations, and he claimed, with some exaggeration, that he could \u201cgive exact measurements to the workmen without having made even a sketch.\u201d He envisioned his revolutionary electric motor, for instance, while walking through a Budapest park and quoting Goethe\u2019s\u00a0<em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Faust<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"81de\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">While Thomas Edison the entrepreneur developed new products in order to make money, Tesla\u200a\u2014\u200aalthough he certainly enjoyed his lavish meals at Delmonico\u2019s and his fancy room at the Waldorf Astoria\u200a\u2014\u200abelieved that technology transcended the marketplace and that invention should not just be tied to profits. He wrote: \u201cThe desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"d7ab\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">Tesla, as noted before, gave us motors, robots, and radio, but he kept imagining. Many of his designs\u200a\u2014\u200aincluding sonar, smart watches, and death rays\u200a\u2014\u200awould inspire great minds for generations.<\/p>\n<p id=\"a9d0\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">Noting today\u2019s risk- and innovation-averse electricity industry, we could benefit greatly from Tesla\u2019s selfless, out-of-the-box thinking. He\u2019d probably be envisioning ways to send power wirelessly, to generate it without pollution, and to provide drudgery-reducing energy to everyone, including the two billion people around the world still without access to electricity.<\/p>\n<p id=\"2654\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">No doubt Tesla aimed high, perhaps higher than any other inventor. He worked tirelessly to offer electric power freely to the world and to build robots that would reduce life\u2019s drudgery. He was, in short, driven by inner forces that made sheer creation the most important thing in his life. And we are the better for it.<\/p>\n<p id=\"6589\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\"><em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Read reviews of Tesla: Inventor of the Modern and purchase\u00a0<\/em><a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tesla-book.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.tesla-book.com\/\"><em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">here<\/em><\/a><em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from Tesla, Inventor of the Modern, a new book by Dick Munson\u00a0published in May 2018. 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