The Cult of Nikola Tesla  Nikola Tesla  Brian Dunning attempts
to separate the facts from the fictions of Nikola Tesla’s life:
It was his ultimate plan, but the farthest he ever got was the
partial construction of his famous tower at Wardenclyffe which
was intended for wireless communication across the Atlantic. His
worldwide wireless power system was theoretical only, employing
the Schumann-Tesla resonance to charge the Earth’s ionosphere
such that a simple handheld coil could receive electrical power
for free anywhere, and everywhere, in the world. Tesla’s idea
was innovative, but innovative idea it remained, as debts
mounted and the tower was dismantled before it ever got to be
used. Now that the nature of the ionosphere is much better
understood, physicists now consider Tesla’s concept unworkable,
and no attempts to test it have ever worked.  All sorts of
conspiracy theories exist, for example that the HAARP research
facility in Alaska is secretly a test of Tesla’s worldwide power
grid, or some sort of