# Tesla’s “Self-Acting” Engine:

In June of the year 1900, Nikola Tesla published an article in Century Magazine titled The Problems of Increasing Human Energy. Never be fore or since has there been such a masterful and exhaustive discussion of how to extract useful energy from the environment. After discussing every known method for energy generation then in use, Tesla begins a discussion of “a departure from known methods — possibility of a ‘self-acting’ engine — the ideal way of obtaining motive power”.
The following quotations are extracted from this section of the article.

- “…a survey of the various ways of utilizing the energy of the medium convinced me, ..that to arrive at a practical solution, a radical departure from the methods then known had to be made. The windmill, the solar engine, the engine driven by terrestrial heat, had their limitations in the amount of power obtain- able. Some new way had to be discovered which would enable us to get more energy.”
- “..the problem was to discover some new method which would make it possible both to utilize more of the heat-energy of the medium and also to draw it away from the same at a more rapid rate.”

Testa’s idea was radical; Design a machine powered by the heat resident in the ambient air that produced an output of mechanical energy and refrigeration simultaneously. He called it “the ideal way of obtaining motive power”. Such a machine would be able to produce useful energy at any time of the day or night, at any location on the globe, drawing upon the vast heat reservoir of the atmosphere. He worked for years toward this goal and absolutely convinced himself, by the power of his own nearly infallible logic, of its potential reality.
To my knowledge, Testa never finished the work on this invention, ‘Without considering taking into the secret files in the FBI archives’. But his pioneering efforts clearly conceived the idea, as well as outlined most of the engineering problems to be solved.
Tesla was a master thinker and inventor. His mind penetrated the ultimate solution to humanity’s energy needs. Like a scientific Sherlock Holmes using the power of his own deduction, when all of the ‘unlikely’ and “impossibles” were removed, what remained must be the solution. Atmospheric heat was the largest untapped reservoir of energy on the planet Tesla refused to over- looked the obvious. He was that rare fish capable of contemplating the water he was swimming in. Few were able to follow his ideas. Even fewer were able to follow-up on his work.

“Suppose that an extremely low temperature could be maintained by some process in a given space; the surrounding medium would then be compelled to give off heat, which could be converted into mechanical or other form of energy, and utilized.
By realizing such a plan, we should be enabled to get at any point of the globe a continuous supply of energy, day and night.”

“A closer investigation of the principles involved, and calculation, now showed that the result I aimed at could not be reached in a practical manner by ordinary machinery, as I had in the beginning expected.This led me, as a next step, to the study of a type of engine generally designated as `turbine,’ which at first seemed to offer better chances for a realization of the idea.”

Confirmation of the thesis falls in early 1895, when Dr. Carl Linde announced the liquefaction of air by a self-cooling process, demonstrating that it was practicable to proceed with the cooling until liquefaction of air took place. This was the only experimental proof which was still wanting that energy was obtainable from the medium in the manner contemplated by Nikola Tesla.

So, was Nikola Tesla a crackpot or a genius?

Personally, I have examined many Tesla documents, and I must say that he was simply a genius.
The man that invented the 20th century;

At First, Nikola Tesla was brilliant. And not just like a word, brilliant, either — I mean like, “holy crap my head just exploded (from all the awesome)” brilliant. The Croatian-born engineer spoke eight languages, almost single-handedly developed technology that harnessed the power of electricity for household use, and invented things like electrical generators, FM radio, remote control, robots, spark plugs, fluorescent lights, and giant-ass machines that shoot enormous, brain-frying lightning bolts all over the place like crazy. He had an unyielding, steel-trap photographic memory and an insane ability to visualize even the most complex pieces of machinery — the guy did advanced calculus and physics equations in his damn head, memorized entire books at a time, and successfully pulled off scientific experiments that modern-day technology STILL can’t replicate. For instance, in 2007 a group of lesser geniuses at MIT got all pumped up out of their minds because they wirelessly transmitted energy a seven feet through the air. Nikola Tesla once lit 200 lightbulbs from a power source 26 miles away, and he did it in 1899 with a machine he built from spare parts in the middle of the god-forsaken desert. To this day, nobody can really figure out how the hell he pulled that genius things off, because two-thirds of the schematics only existed in the darkest recesses of Tesla’s all-powerful brain.

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