Since starting on the Angola power project we talked of in an earlier posting, it has become quite apparent that people have a very distorted understanding of just what Solar energy is.
When we mention the term, straight away people think of sunshine – if it isn’t sunny then it doesn’t work, simple as – well, not so simple actually…..
Solar energy was first developed in Victorian times by Nikola Tesla who referred to it as Radiant Energy and for a very good reason I might add. You see, as Tesla quite correctly pointed out, Solar Energy as we call it now is nothing really to do with sunshine as such, but UV (Ultra Violet) and its there 24/7- the Sun is a star and the other stars are, in turn just other Sun’s a long way off.
All these Stars give off radiation in the form of Alpha, Beta and Gamma which are particles at varying frequencies travelling at very high velocities in straight lines from their point of origin. They all come under RF or Radio Frequencies with Alpha being the lowest on the spectrum and Gamma the highest.
He also quite correctly explained that the particles are positively charged and the Earth being negatively charged, forms a natural A.C. circuit across which limitless power flows and therefore can be generated free of charge as provided by Mother nature.
Modern Solar panels or Photovoltaics to give them their correct name, are a doped semiconductor which, when light strikes them, create the positive and negative charge charge internally and give out a small D.C. charge like a battery.
Having proved his theory in many forms which included an electric car at speeds in excess of ninety miles per hour, and many patents, he built a transmission system to transfer the huge amounts of power via the Ionosphere thereby making it available to anywhere on the planet free of charge. However, as so often happens another good idea was crushed by corporate greed when Westinghouse the financier, pulled the plug as they couldn’t work out where to place the meter and Tesla determined to make it free for the betterment of mankind.
Another famous instance in this field of work was by DR. Thomas Henry Moray who, although taking a somewhat different approach was equally successful but also crushed by the might of corporate and Government America of the time.
Many people over the years have and still are trying to recreate this lost technology in one way or another. All one can say is, it really is as simple as Tesla pointed out – watch this space………