Two Russian physicists have turned to the fundraising website Indiegogo in the hope of raising a cool $800,000 to build a Tesla Tower.
Leonid and Sergey Plekhanov – graduates of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology but now working in industry – want to reconstruct the famous Wardenclyffe Tower that was built by the inventor and engineer Nicola Tesla to find a commercial application for long-distance wireless energy transmission.
Tesla started construction of the 57 m tower in 1901 in Shoreham – about 100 km from New York City – but it never became fully operational and was dismantled in 1917.
After performing computer simulations and designing the building, the brothers believe that the Tesla Tower – or “Planetary Energy Transmitter” – could work if built to scale.
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