Nikolai Tesla y el Mundo Moderno

Hoy quiero discutir algo de ciencia y quise hacerlo presentando la vida y obra del gran Nikolai Tesla. Su cumplea/nos fue ayer, 10 de julio. Un poco de su historia aqui (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla). Gracias a sus invenciones el mundo correcto es energizado usando redes electricas de corriente alterna. En su historia fue un rival directo de Tomas Alva Edison en cuanto al tema de corriente directa (DC) la preferencia de Edison y la corriente alterna (AC) la preferencia de Tesla. Tesla hacia espectaculos con sus Tesla Coils (en cualquier pelicula de ciencia ficcion de los 50 y 60 salen) mientras que Edison electrocutaba vacas y pollos demostrando los peligros de la electricidad alterna. Sin embargo la red electrica mundial, incluyendo nuestro grid Aguirre, Costa Sur, San Juan, Palo Seco, AES y Ecoelectrica (y otras turbinas en la red) utiliza sus principios cientificos. Sus turbinas y motores tambien son conocidos por su bajo consumo electrico.

En varios posts atras inclui un video de David Bowie con Klaus Nomi. David Bowie hizo el papel de Tesla en la pelicula de The Prestige. Si no la han visto, es altamente recomendada. Sobre todo si te gusta esta onda del Steampunk, Magos peleando, esoterismo de feria, etc. Aqui les presento una escena, con un gigantesco Tesla Coil:



Una escena literalmente parapelos.

Debajo: Una lista de sus grandes inventos:
http://www.rexresearch.com/teslatur/teslatur.htm

Una excelente presentacion de sus invenciones aqui (en ppt)
http://www.muzejnt.rs/downloads/CIMUSET/Implementation_of_Information_Technologies_at_the_Nikola_Tesla.PPT

Una fuente Tesla operando:


El principio de operacion y esquematicos en 3D presentados aqui en este paper:
http://www.telsiks.org.rs/teslaproj.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krunski_Venac

Un articulo de inventos ficticios de Tesla:
http://io9.com/5127125/the-greatest-inventions-nikola-tesla-never-created

Nunca dije el interes. Estos dias tras varios largas sesiones de entrenamiento y proyectos extra atrasados decidi coger un break, y si, un poco de escapismo, asi que me puse a ver el Season 3 de Venture Brothers. Me compraron con tan solo poner a The Prodigy y Art of Noise en el grupo del sotano del complejo Venture. Y por supuesto con el capitulo The Orb.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORB_%28Venture_Bros._episode%29
The cylinder is a recording made by the bodyguard of the late Colonel Lloyd Venture, Eugen Sandow, who recounts a battle between Nikola Tesla and his allies, and a mysterious Guild of historical figures (among them Oscar Wilde, Aleister Crowley, and Mark Twain), all protecting a mysterious Orb. The Guild, at this time made up of writers, poets, scientists, wizards, and sinister costumed men, laments the fighting. The two key members of the society appear to be Venture and Fantômas (apparently one of Phantom Limb's ancestors who may or may not be the fictional literary character). Their world is being torn asunder, which leads various members of the Guild (in particular, Fantômas) to suggest activating the Orb, even though its function is ambiguous. The more sensible Guild members (primarily Colonel Venture and Wilde) rebuke Fantômas' impetuousness, stating that "the Orb is a source of untold power. We must take our time and learn how to harness that power for the good of mankind." Wilde scoffs at Fantômas, who believes the Guild alone should decide what is best for mankind; the writer states that the Guild was designed to "protect and serve man at his best," not to be a "Guild of Calamitous Intent." Even Wilde, however, cannot resist suggesting that the Orb be tested. This causes even more dissension within the Guild.

Claro que Tesla siempre es motivo de broma en ciertos circulos...
http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=61
'ladies ladies i'm not interested in your romantic advances but in SCIENCE. control yourselves!'

http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=256
claro, la guerra Edison y Marconi...

Ahora, el hombre era un visionario, ya veia problemas con el uso de combustibles fosiles:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/071010a.html

At the height of his popularity as the key inventor who pioneered commercial electricity, Tesla cautioned the world of the inefficiencies of burning substances to generate energy, especially coal, the predominate fuel source of the day.

Not only did the burning process waste most the potential energy of coal, Nikola Tesla argued, but it was a nonrenewable resource that we would eventually run out of. The same arguments could easily be made about oil.

“Whatever our resources of primary energy may be in the future,” Tesla wrote in Century Magazine in 1900, “we must, to be rational, obtain it without consumption of any material.”

Tesla reminded us that a windmill is one of the most efficient energy devices ever devised, and suspected we’d eventually be able to harness the sun’s rays in an efficient way. He also advocated utilizing the heat “in the earth, the water, or the air.”

He proposed, essentially, geothermal energy plants, one capturing the heat of the earth, the other floating on the ocean, using the temperature differential between the surface water temperature and the deeper water temperatures to drive turbines to generate electricity.

One of Tesla’s designs for a floating geothermal plant was published in the pages of the New York Times, complete with pictures and diagrams, in the 1930s. But by the 1930s, oil was being found all over the world in such quantities and with such relatively little output of energy that no one cared much about producing power in other ways.

It wasn’t until the oil shortage in the 1970s that people started taking a serious look at alternative ways of producing energy on a large scale.

Referencias adiconales
http://www.teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla-books-tesla-fountain-by-bratislav-stoiljkovic
http://www.metafilter.com/93621/The-History-of-Nikola-Tesla

Recordemos siempre a este incomprendido genio de la humanidad...