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…of all his inventions, what may become the most beneficial are those dealing with creating electricity from magnetic energy
waves created by the Sun. In very simple laymen’s terms Tesla concluded that the Sun itself is a white-hot ball of pure energy
with a positive electrical charge. The Earth, spinning on its axis once every 24 hours, displays a negative electrical charge. This
electrical “relationship” between the Sun and the Earth greatly interested Tesla and resulted in his declaring that he could
create electricity by harnessing radio magnetic waves in the atmosphere.
Tesla’s personal diary contains explanations of his experiments concerning the ionosphere, and the ground’s telluric currents via
transverse waves [electromagnetic] and longitudinal [scalar]l waves. At his lab in Colorado, Tesla proved that the earth was a
conductor, and he even produced artificial lightning, creating discharges consisting of millions of volts, and up to 135 feet (41 5
meters) long. Tesla also investigated atmospheric electricity observing lightning signals via his receivers . . .There must have
been something disturbing about Tesla’s work to American energy tycoons, as ones like JP Morgan locked up Tesla’s most
advanced power generator and threw away the key. Morgan then had Tesla’s Power Generator for broadcasting electricity
through the air dismantled.
—Maurice Picow, “Were Tesla’s Solar Innovations ‘Buried’ by Big Oil?” Energy, Green Tech and Gadgets, March 10, 2011

Cycle 24 Sunspot solar minimum.
Tesla: . . . One summer evening in Budapest, I watched the sunset with my friend Sigetijem. Thousands of fires were turning
around in thousands of flaming colors. I remembered Faust and recited his verses, and then, as in a fog, I saw a spinning