How Nikola Tesla Embodied Sustainability in the Early 1900s
His vision for global energy extended far beyond the commercialized ‘direct current’ of Edison electricity.
No, we aren’t talking about the sustainability of Tesla cars.
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system.
His ideas propagated inventions like the radio, microwave, X-ray, remote control, hydroelectric power.
In fact, “There’s not a lot of modern conveniences that we currently enjoy that weren’t touched by Nikola Tesla in some way,” said Marc Alessi, executive director of the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe in New York.
Tesla saw the world in a unique way. He believed in the Earth’s untapped potential as a ball of infinite energy. Tesla brought sustainability to science in every way imaginable, without even realizing it.
He sought to create an energy grid that not only harnessed renewable forms, but also accelerated mankind in an economic sense.
Here’s just a few ways Tesla embodied sustainability in the early 1900s.
