‘ Tesla’s Wild Dreams: From Free Energy to Tunguska Myths’

"Tesla’s Wild Dreams: From Free Energy to Tunguska Myths"

The story mixes real events and conspiracy theories about Nikola Tesla. It starts with the Tunguska explosion in 1908, when something blew up over Siberia, flattening 80 million trees but leaving no crater or meteor pieces. Scientists think it was a space rock exploding in the air, not a human-made event. Then it claims Tesla caused it with a “death ray” from his Wardenclyffe Tower in New York, built in 1901 to send wireless energy worldwide. Tesla was a real inventor who dreamed of free electricity using the Earth’s ionosphere, a charged layer 50 miles up, and showed off wireless power in 1893. But his funding ran out when banker J.P. Morgan ditched him, and there’s no proof he had a working ray in 1908.

Later, Tesla talked about a “Teleforce” weapon in the 1930s, and when he died in 1943, the U.S. government took his papers. The story ties this to HAARP, a modern Alaska project that beams energy into the ionosphere, suggesting it’s Tesla’s tech turned into a weapon—though HAARP’s really just for research. The commentary says Tesla was brilliant but broke, and while the Tunguska and HAARP links are fun to imagine, they’re unlikely. It’s a mix of his real genius (like wireless ideas) and wild “what ifs,” showing how his legacy still sparks big questions today.