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There is one “legendary treasure” in Vietnam that many people might not be aware of.Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Laos, Myanmar, and the Philippines don’t have this treasure.China has it. The USA has it. Western and Northern Europe has it.What characteristics do the above three have in common?They are all economically powerful. This “treasure” is one of the reasons that could help them quickly developing manufacturing industries and reducing operating costs. Therefore, this “legendary treasure” is a secret weapon for “modern” economic prosperity.Unfortunately, India, the Middle East, and Australia don’t have this treasure.Now I am telling you that Vietnam has this treasure. If Vietnam uses it well, they could achieve double-digit economic growth.Can you guess what is this “treasure”? Please pause for a minute and think about it.Let me give you a hint for this puzzle: “Balloons”.I know it is a very difficult puzzle. If you wish to know the answer, please continue to read this extremely long post. I’m sure you can learn something new about Vietnam.First, we need to use China as a reference to understand Vietnam. Here is the satellite image of the Yangtze River Delta in China.If you zoom in and traverse along the bank of Yangtze from the coast to inland for around 1000km, you will find thousands of ships sailing along the river. This is a sign of a booming economy.Ships sailing east in Yangtze River, Nanjing, China 32°10'10.4"N 118°57'19.9"EIn Vietnam, there is a similar river called Mekong River or the Nine Dragons River. The Mekong river is very similar to the Yangtze River in China. Both of them are long, wide and steady. The Mekong river is also an international river. It runs through China's Yunnan Province, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and reaches the sea in Vietnam.Mekong river delta in Vietnam, a dense mesh of canal networks can be seenIf you zoom in and traverse along the Mekong River from the coast and move upstream, you can find numerous vessels sailing along the river, either big and small.Thành Phố Châu Đốc 朱笃市 10°42'20.9"N 105°08'03.0"EBut wait, this is not the “treasure” I am talking about. There are a lot of other great river deltas around the world. What’s special about Vietnam?To understand what’s special about Vietnam, let’s look at the Ganges-Brahmaputra River Delta in Bangladesh and India for comparison. They obviously have a much bigger and wider river originating from the Himalayas.Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta in India and BangladeshHowever, if we zoom in and have a closer look at the Brahmaputra river, we can see that the Brahmaputra is actually not “one” river but many small rivers intertwined together.The Brahmaputra river streams intertwine like “roots”, 25°50'01.2"N 89°50'34.4"EDuring the monsoon season, it becomes “one” river. The heavy rainfall during monsoon pours a huge amount of water into this river. These streams would form into one river and flood all the fields along the bank. In the dry season, there is not enough water to fill the whole width of the river, leaving a few streams intertwined on the river bed.Since the river flow volume fluctuates so much, it is impossible for big ships to travel along the river. That’s why India and Bangladesh can’t develop large inland river commodity shipment.So how do we address this river problem? Now it is time to reveal the treasure: “balloon lakes” (吞吐型湖泊).A balloon lake is a kind of fresh-water lake that is connected to a river. In a rainy season or monsoon season, balloon lakes take in an extra amount of water from the river to avoid excessive floods. In the dry season, balloon lakes spit out water into the river to keep the river flowing smoothly.China‘s Yangtze River is connected with five balloon lakes: Changhu Lake, Dongting Lake, Poyang Lake, Chaohu Lake, and Hong Tse Lake. In the monsoon season, these lakes are like a sponge, absorbing a huge amounts of water and expanding several times its original size. In the dry season, these lakes supply a huge amount of water back to Yangtze River.From the following satellite image, we can see that the Poyang Lake is spitting water to the Yangtze River. (Satellite image usually shows a dry season image in China. They can not be taken during the monsoon season due to the heavy clouds.)Poyang Lake, a balloon lake in China 29°43'36.0"N 116°11'02.2"ESimilarly, the USA has its Great Lakes serving as balloon lakes. Some questioned it is not. But we can’t deny the fact that the Mississippi River is steady and calm so that cargo ships can sail from the ocean and reach deeply inland.So enough about China and the USA, what about Vietnam?Of course, the Mekong River in South East Asia is also blessed with a huge balloon lake. And only Vietnam and Cambodia can enjoy the benefits.This is the Tonlé Sap Lake Tonlé Sap - Wikipedia in Cambodia, the largest lake of South East Asia. This lake is also a typical balloon lake.The Mekong River is connected to the lake at Phnom Penh in Cambodia. During the monsoon season, Mekong river can pump extra water into the lake. During the dry season, water from Tonlé Sap flows into the Mekong river, boosting the flow volume downstream.Balloon lakes do have their side effects. Because they expand several times over during the monsoon season, people living around these regions suffer a lot from flooding. However, only Cambodia carries the burden of expanding balloon lakes. It is so lucky for Vietnam to just enjoy its benefits. Vietnam, you should be really grateful for Cambodians taking the side effects.Now we understand what are the balloon lakes. Next, let me explain why the balloon lake is the secret legendary weapon for Vietnam to boost its economy (and same for China, USA, and Europe).A legendary weapon has its “special effects”Weapon effect 1: -80% flooding damageRivers with large or many balloon lakes would get more flooding-tolerant. During the monsoon season, extra water would be buffered in the balloon lake and flooding in the downstream would become less severe. This significantly benefits the massive amount of Vietnamese people living in the delta.Without balloon lakes, for example, India has suffered from the monsoon floods for thousands of years. People are reluctant to put efforts into building their villages and improvement.“If my farmland and home get destroyed every year by flooding, why do I need to keep working on it?”And therefore during monsoon season, those Indian farmers who live by the river would normally do less farm-work and this seems to have influenced their culture over the thousands of years.Flooding in India during the monsoon season.In contrast, let’s look at Vietnam in the Mekong river delta region. The Vietnamese named this delta the “Nine Dragon Rivers Delta”. This delta region is the most productive region in Vietnam. Its rice production accounts for almost half of the total Vietnam rice production.Nine Dragon Rivers are filled with a dense mesh of canals 10°05'31.4"N 105°25'29.7"EThe Vietnamese people spent hundreds of years digging canals for irrigation, growing rice and cultivating their fish ponds. Thanks to the balloon lakes upstream, those canals and rice fields don’t get destroyed by flooding. They might still get light flooding occasionally but not to the devastating extent of their farms and homes, which get destroyed every year.For the past hundreds of years, Emperor Gia Long of the Nguyen Dynasty (嘉隆帝) has led his people to construct massive canal networks over the delta. With this dense canal network, the Mekong Delta is less prone to flooding.These cultivation and hard working styles have also been embedded in Vietnamese cultures too.Weapon effect 2: +Constant River Flow EffectOn the other hand, balloon lakes provide a constant flow of water all over the years. The constant flow could drive rivers to deepen their river bed. The river surface becomes calm too. So the river would never become fragmented and intertwined like the Brahmaputra river in India.Now you might understand why the Vietnamese love to travel by boats and why their rivers are so calm and steady. Normal families can carry their produce using their own boats and sell products on the market set on the flat river. This becomes a part of their unique culture too. This kind of transportation is extremely cost-effective and convenient.River market around Can Tho, fourth largest city in VietnamCai Rang Floating Market around Can ThoWhat is the proof claiming that balloon lakes have such effects?Based on the description of the Mekong River from The Use of Rivers for Transportation in Vietnam:Upstream from Phnom Penh, navigation along the Mekong River is impaired by natural obstructions so that vessel transport is confined to relatively short river segmentsPhnom Penh is exactly where the balloon lake Tonlé Sap is connected to the Mekong River. Without the supplements from Tonlé Sap, upstream Mekong River gets less water during the dry season and therefore it is unnavigable. It is not due to the Chinese dams built along the upstream Mekong river as some people claim.Weapon unique effect I: -400% inland logistics costsA steady river surface and deep river bed provide an ideal environment for inland cargo shipping. This kind of transportation is very cost-effective and efficient. People in Vietnam use it for carrying sand, stones, coal, and other construction materials to build their homes and factories. It might look rustic to you, but it is actually much cheaper to carry it by boat compared to a truck. This happens in China, USA, and Europe as well.Now the Vietnamese have also realized their huge potential in large scale commodity shipping in the Nine Dragon River. A 7000 tonnage commodity ship can now sail deep into Mekong river and reach the Vietnam and Cambodia border. And, in theory, the ship can reach all the way to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia.Why is large tonnage shipping so essential on the manufacturing industry? Let me use a very simple example:Suppose the city of Can Tho (芹苴市), the fourth largest city of Vietnam, wants to manufacture car components for Hyundai. The city needs to import 5000 tons of oil and coal to generate power. It also needs to import 5000 tons of raw materials including steel and other smaller components from other parts of Vietnam or the rest of the world. After manufacturing, it needs to export the 5000 tons of car components to the rest of the world.Imagine what would be the cost if you transport them using trucks? using trains? or using ships? Of course, we know that ships are the cheapest. But even for shipping, it is much cheaper to use one 5000 tonnage ship instead of 50 100-tonnage small ships. These costs would be reflected in the final price of “Made-in-Vietnam” and their competitiveness in attracting foreign investments.A 5000-ton container ship sails along with the Mekong riverWeapon unique effect II: Riverbank has the same effect as CoastlinesInland rivers with balloon lakes naturally have deeper river bed, which can support large-tonnage commodity shipping. Therefore, it actually has the same effects as the coastlines. Moreover, it is much better than coastlines because you have double land exposure on both sides of the river bank; the land price by the river is much cheaper than the land price by the coast.Look at the rest of South East Asia, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, they all have great ports along their coast. Why do I believe Vietnam has better potential than them? They have fewer flatlands along the coast. Those lands are typically very expensive.Now let’s go back to China and see how China efficiently uses this “legendary weapon” to make its Made-in-China products “cheap” despite the higher labour costs. The following satellite image shows a section of Yangtze River in Jiangsu, which is around 300km upstream from the coast.Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China 32°12'39.1"N 119°40'27.4"EIf we zoom in, we can find a typical Chinese factory that manufactures cheap electronics. What’s interesting about this factory is that they have their own ports by the river.An example of a standalone Chinese manufacturing factory by the Yangtze river. 32°12'39.1"N 119°40'27.4"EContainer ships can offload the factory import containers and take aboard the export containers. Moreover, the container ships can serve all the other factories along the river in one go. Now do you realise the amazing efficiency in both logistics and factories revealed here?It is much cheaper to set up factories deeply inland than the coastal area by seaports. If you are an investor, would you place your factory here? Of course, you will consider if the logistic cost reduction overweights the labour cost increase.This is one of the factors that contribute to why China can make “made-in-China” goods so cheap. It is not due to the cheap labour, but cheap logistic, its scale and land costs. If you have time, please use your Google Earth to have a look at the bank of all the river networks in China, and you will find countless factories along the rivers. That also explains why Southern China is relatively more economically prosperous than Northern China.Hopefully, from the explanation above, you can also understand why it is very difficult for India to develop cheap logistic networks. It is because of their lack of navigable river networks.Now let’s go back to Vietnam.What’s amazing for Vietnam is that it has two river deltas: the Mekong River Delta (21 million people) and the Red River Delta (17 million people). Both are destined to become megalopolis of over 20 million people in the next 50 years of urbanisation.For the Red River Delta in the north, the Vietnamese government also accidentally made two artificial “ballon lakes”: Thac Ba Lake and Hoa Binh Lake. Both lakes are connected to the red river, making the red river easy to navigate.Thac Ba Lake 21°47'59.2"N 104°58'33.9"EWhat’s more amazing is that Vietnam is blessed with a long coastal line as well as dense river networks. Look at the river and coastal map of Vietnam:With proper port infrastructure developments, cargo ships in Vietnam have the potential to navigate any part of the country cheaply through seas and rivers. Its exposure to navigable waters is higher than in other ASEAN countries. That’s why Vietnam has a brighter future than any other ASEAN country.Besides its geographic potential, let’s look at Vietnam’s climate potential.Based on the German climate classification, Köppen climate classification - Wikipedia, we can find that Northern Vietnam is the only region of South East Asia that has “temperate climate”. A temperate climate is especially beneficial in developing the economy. The world’s most developed regions are normally correlated with regions of temperate climate but not tropical climate.Fortunately, Northern Vietnam has a similar climate as in the Canton region of China including Hong Kong and Shenzhen. It means that Northern Vietnam has the same climate potential to develop its economy as Canton.Why is the tropical climate not as beneficial in developing the economy? One possible explanation is that people in tropical regions with hot and humid climate are normally reluctant to work. You get tired easily when working at a hot temperature. The climate affects their psychology and becomes less hard-working. And it has been embedded in their cultures over thousands of years. Moreover, hot and humid weather causes more diseases, deadly bugs and disasters, making it more expensive to install basic welfare for the whole society.So Southern Vietnam is not so lucky in terms of its climate. Its potential and labour efficiency might take a hit due to its hot and humid weather. However, there is a way around this. The Vietnamese government needs to learn from Singapore to focus more on the health system, pest control, and basic education in the tropical area. There is no other tropical country in the world that does better than Singapore.And actually, hot and climate weather is not a problem when it comes to air conditioning. Even in a temperate climate, most cities in China are actually much hotter than Vietnam during the summer. That’s why the Chinese government promotes its domestic air conditioning industry and significantly lowers the air conditioning costs and electricity costs. As a result, normal Chinese household can at least afford an air conditioner.Therefore it is essential for the Vietnamese government to focus on promoting its air conditioning penetration. At least ensure an air-conditioned environment in every school, hospital and public transport hub.Yes, Vietnam is currently on its correct track. It surpasses Thailand in term of air conditioner sales and soared to the same level as India and Indonesia, despite having fewer people of around 100 million. The Vietnamese government should try their best to attract air conditioning industry and foster domestic AC brands.Vietnam a really cool market for air-conditioner makers - VnExpress InternationalNow we understand Vietnam has its geographic potential and climate conditions to become a manufacturing hub. But the next question is: Does the Vietnam government fully exploit its geographic potential?We all know the Vietnamese Communist Party has learned from China and open up its economy through a series of political and economic reforms (Đổi mới). They are fully aware that developing infrastructure is the key to unleash their geographic potentials and economic growth. That’s why we are currently seeing so much on-going infrastructure construction in Vietnam.When normal Chinese people look at these infrastructure developments in Vietnam, they would be confused. Huge bridges, huge electricity grid over rivers, rice fields and fish ponds, etc. Is it in China or in Vietnam? Why are they so similar?I’m telling you they are in Vietnam.Cầu Phước Khánh, Phước Khánh, Nhơn Trạch, Đồng Nai, VietnamMost of the projects are funded by Japanese, Korean and Chinese companies.Mega bridges constructed over Saigon River 10°39'32.1"N 106°44'24.9"ENhật Tân Bridge in HanoiVietnamese Communist Party vs Chinese Communist PartyHowever, despite the good will of developing infrastructure projects, developments in Vietnam seem to be slower than the Chinese. In 2008, when China has a similar GDP per capita as Vietnam in 2018 (around $2800), China still managed to complete a lot of infrastructure projects (per capita). One example is that in 2008, numerous Chinese cities already has several lines of metros.In contrast, in 2019, Ho Chi Minh City has yet to deliver its first metro line Ho Chi Minh City Metro - Wikipedia, despite the fact that it was first proposed in 2001.For Hanoi, two metro lines are on construction. However, progress is also significantly slower if you compare with the Chinese speed.Due to the lack of efficient public transport, Vietnamese people still have to use scooters for commuting. Yes, it is efficient for individuals but it is not so efficient in terms of the whole urban transportation network and development.Why are infrastructure developments in Vietnam so slow? Some of my Vietnamese friends said it was due to the corruptions. But I would say, I didn’t see too much difference between the Chinese and Vietnamese in terms of corruption. But why could the Chinese get things done quickly despite corruption?Let’s look at the fundamental difference between the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to understand why.Difference 1: Lack of strong leadership and meritocracyThe two populous river deltas in Vietnam is a blessing but also a curse. Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are over 1000 km apart and they do have difference culturally and politically. As a result, the VCP has to compromise and balance the interests between the two regions.That’s why we can see VCP normally picks a Northern Vietnamese as their General Secretary of VCP, a Central Vietnamese to be the President of Vietnam, and a Southern Vietnamese to be their prime minister (or rotation). The three leaders have approximately similar power and they can check and balance with each other. We typically call it the “Troika” of Vietnam. There is no apparent top leadership among them.They are efficient if the three leaders are heading for the same direction but not so efficient if they are heading for different directions. In China, there are a lot of debates in whether a strong capable leader is better for a nation or seven strong capable leaders are great for a nation. It remains to be seen.But what is true is that the three leaders in Vietnam will form their own circles of power and interest groups. It breaks the meritocracy promotion and circulations because you always have a leader from the North and a leader from the South. As there is no higher leadership that oversees them, it is more difficult to crack down corruptions top-down in the pyramid power grid.To know more about this pyramid power theory on to reducing corruption, please check my answer in:Janus Dongye Qimeng's answer to How much corruption is there in PR China? How does it differ on the different levels of the administration, and what is its history?Recently Vietnam seems to learn from China and broke this “Troika” relation. Now Vietnam has two leaders. Is there a possibility they might eventually have one leader? That remains to be seen.What if Vietnam becomes a democratic country? There would be a north-friendly party and south-friendly party. Democracy would only further polarise their political divide and destabilise the country. And of course, it would never prevent corruption problems just like India.Difference 2: Private ownership of the land in VietnamThe second fundamental difference between Vietnam and China is that VCP allows its people to own their land, whereas all the lands in China are owned by the government and the Chinese government only leases its land to the people.Again, I am not saying that one is necessarily better than the other. Both have advantages and disadvantages. But the most notable effect is that it is easier for China to acquire land for its infrastructure projects. Those Chinese people who own the right to use the land would hurry to extend their current floor plan just hoping the government might acquire their land for better compensation. You might not see this trend in other parts of the world.The second effect is that Vietnam local governments are too weak in terms of finance and power. Without the power of selling lands to real estate developers (because they don’t have enough land), the Vietnamese government is normally weak in their income.As a result, they would:propose fewer constructions compared to Chinaspark more instances of government-level corruption in other parts of the process because “it is not lucrative enough”.have to seek financial assistance from foreign countries including Japan, Korea, and China. It is likely to fall into a debt trap.Difference 3: Military doing business in VietnamAgain, this is also a controversial topic. Vietnam has its “military complex” just like the USA because it has been at war for several decades. Interest groups in the military have become so large that they now control politics and over 10% of the domestic economy of Vietnam. While Vietnam has their own state enterprises, some of them have become de facto military enterprises.Normally, a country can collect taxes and feed its military, so that its military has to listen to the state and asks for military budgets. But if the military can sustain itself through doing business, why do they need to listen to the state? If there are no checks and balances for the military, Vietnam runs the risk of being intervened and controlled by interest groups from the military. Without checks and balances, it would foster even more corruption in the military.Difference 4: Vietnam is more “democratic” than ChinaAlthough VCP learned from CCP to open up its economy through a series of political and economic reforms (Đổi mới), they actually took a more “free” approach in their political reforms. For example, the Vietnamese “congress” or the National Assembly of Vietnam is allocated with more power compared to the National People's Congress in China. The detailed difference is worth another dedicated answer. But specifically for infrastructure development, Vietnam Congress can reject development projects such as high-speed railway projects based on the representatives’ votes, which are represented by different interest groups.North–South express railway (Vietnam) - WikipediaAgain, I am not saying which approach is better. But having a different system would provide us a perfect political system experiment for us to study and compare in the next few decades. It would be extremely helpful for China’s own political reforms too.Finally, after reading about the geographic, climate and political potentials of Vietnam, I hope you can have a comprehensive view of Vietnam. Vietnam has its geographic potentials and it remains to be seen whether the Vietnam government can fully exploit its potential. But its fast-growing economy tells that its potential is being explored.Recently, many of my fellow Chinese, perhaps including me, have been bragging about the rapid development of China. The most representative picture we typically use is:This is the city of Shanghai. From 1999 to 2019, in just two decades, Shanghai witnessed an unimaginable transformation, especially on the bank in Pudong.The land of future, 10°46'16.6"N 106°42'59.5"EFrom Google Earth, if we look at the historical satellite image around 2000, we can see that the river bank (the Bund) is almost grassland. Who knows that skyscrapers arise like bamboos in the future!What if I tell you that the satellite image above is not Shanghai, but Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) in Vietnam? What if I tell you that Ho Chi Minh City is experiencing a similar growth path like Shanghai? What if I tell you that skyscrapers are already rising like bamboo in Ho Chi Minh City?Sunset of Ho Chi Minh CityAlong the bank of Saigon river, new skyscrapers are erected every year. You can easily spot the tallest building in Vietnam: landmark 81, which was completed in 2018.However, this title will be overtaken by another skyscraper, the empire city tower, an 86-story building. The tower would become a new landmark of Vietnam, just like Taipei 101 in Taiwan and Twin towers in Malaysia. And the tower would bring more investors and more skyscrapers along.Besides skyscrapers, you might also spot construction of many massive business parks in Vietnam. And you can see that these industrial zones are quickly expanding and taking over the adjacent rice fields.Industrial zone 2, Ho Chi Minh City 10°43'06.7"N 106°55'35.5"EIt is estimated that there are around 300k factories located in the city. Many of them are invested by foreign companies from Korea, China, Japan, and the USA. The most representative investments are in the electronics sector, Samsung invested 6.5 billion dollars here to manufacture its OLED monitors. Intel invested 1.5 billion dollars and built a fabrication factory here to produce their CPUs. The AirPods from Apple would also be manufactured here. The same happens in Hanoi and the rest of Vietnam as well.And also Vietnam is so lucky to become a member of each free trade agreement network led by the USA, China, and ASEAN. It gains huge benefits by being in the middle between China and USA. Foreign investments found Vietnam could be a safe spot to avoid the damage from the trade war between the USA and China.Some of my fellow Chinese fear that foreign investments leaving China for Vietnam would be bad for the Chinese economy. But from what I can see, these investments are not a zero-sum game. China can still maintain most of the foreign direct investments it has due to its massive market and excellent infrastructure. And Vietnam has just around 100 million people and it lacks the capacity to consume all the investment. For manufacturing in the downstream value chain, China should join Japan and South Korea to actively invest in Vietnam to develop its economy and get a share of its economic growth.As a Chinese, I think Vietnam will have a bright future because of its amazing geographic potential. What matters now for Vietnam is how to attract investments based on its efficient logistic networks, infrastructure and supply chain. This would be the key to overcome a potential middle-income trap in the future.Thanks for taking the time to read this extremely long post, I hope you learned something new about Vietnam and China.

I offer three major problems from the foolish response to the unproven global warming scare.BY CAUSING INCREASE IN FUEL PRICES TO MEET PSEUDO-SCIENCE PARIS ACCORD TARGETS AND HARMING MOST OF THE PUBLICBY WASTING TRILLIONS ON THE MADNESS OF MAKING THE CLIMATE COLDER BY ARTIFICIALLY CUTTING FOSSIL FUELS EMISSIONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE.BY SUBSIDIZING RENEWABLES TO THE ELECTRIC GRID THEREBY MAKING THE GRID INEFFICIENT.Political leaders are duped by the global warming fear mongering, but many citizens are not. The crazy leadership of France and Canada governments behind the carbon dioxide hoax of the Paris Accord sparks violent protests effect.BY CAUSING INCREASE IN FUEL PRICES TO MEET PSEUDO-SCIENCE PARIS ACCORD TARGETS AND HARMING MOST OF THE PUBLICAnger over rising fuel taxes sparks fiery French protestsThe Associated PressPublished 1:33 p.m. ET Nov. 24, 2018 | Updated 1:47 p.m. ET Nov. 24, 2018France: Police firing tear gas and using water cannon clashed with protesters in Paris who are angry over rising fuel costs and President Emmanuel Macron's economic policies the second weekend of "yellow vest" protests across France. 24-11-2018Ontario Liberals lost recent election primarily over mad climate policies.Boondoggle: How Ontario's pursuit of renewable energy broke the province's electricity systemThe Ontario green electricity regime is a monumental failure. The costs to consumers are prohibitive and damaging the economyBack in 2010, deep green environmentalist Rick Smith, then head of Environmental Defence Canada, hailed Ontario’s Green Energy and Green Economy Act regime as a cost-free operation that would catapult the province into the big leagues of renewable energy. Through fat subsidies and high prices offered to wind, solar and other renewable industry players, jobs and growth would boom and Ontario would be free of its dirty coal plants. It was the End of Coal, the government said. The birth of a renewable miracle.Asked whether the plan might lead to higher prices for consumers, “No,” said Dr. Smith — he likes to be called doctor in recognition of his PhD in biology. “No. Not at all.”Smith was absolutely sure that Ontario’s campaign to become the North American leader in renewable energy would not be a burden on consumers. He had the facts, the study, and the numbers. Renewable is doable. “We’ve done some modelling on this and we’re talking a penny’s increase to your average person’s electricity bill,” he said. “Ontarians won’t even notice any impact on their electricity rates.”The penny that nobody would notice on their bills has morphed into hundreds of dollars a year, in some cases a month, to the point where the premier of the province can’t mention the word “hydro” without getting booed. The government also shocked observers last month when it suspended plans to buy more wind and solar power. Polls suggest voters are furious over electricity rates.The doubling of electricity prices since 2005 is big politically, but it is just the top-line item on a long list of problems, misconceptions and outright fabrications that lurk within the Liberal government’s decade-long pursuit of radical greenism.Instead of being a worthy model for other nations and states, the province’s green energy megaproject stands as a cautionary tale. Alberta’s NDP government, also under the spell of green activists, should look twice before following its plan to kill coal and turn green.For all the costs of going green — estimated by Ontario’s auditor general to total $170 billion over 30 years—none of the alleged economic and social benefits have materialized. Claims by former premier Dalton McGuinty and current leader Kathleen Wynne, repeated in a recent speech from the throne, that closing coal plants dramatically reduced smog and saved $4.4 billion in health care and other costs are demonstrably untrue.The promise of maybe hundreds of thousands of renewable energy jobs was also a fantasy; today, nobody can say where the jobs are, mainly because few new permanent jobs exist.Instead of boosting Ontario’s economy and the health of its citizens, the province has created an incoherent electricity industry that many say threatens the viability of key industries.Veterans of Ontario electricity policymaking call the current Ontario electricity structure “badly broken,” a “fiasco,” a “train wreck in slow motion,” and in need of a complete overhaul.“Structurally, we’re not even close” to having a regime in place to return policy to some form of rational governance, said Jan Carr, former head of the Ontario Power Authority.Carr said cancelling new wind projects shows the government is “finally waking up to Ontario’s electricity carnage.” But it won’t be enough. “Price increases are baked in for years to come due to the long-term contracts already in place, to say nothing of the implicit promise of returns based on global norms to the public pension funds who bought into Hydro One (the transmission company now being privatized to raise cash for the government).”…https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/boondoggle-how-ontarios-pursuit-of-renewable-energy-broke-the-provinces-electricity-systemBY WASTING TRILLIONS ON THE MADNESS OF MAKING THE CLIMATE COLDER BY ARTIFICIALLY CUTTING FOSSIL FUELS EMISSIONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE.By CP Op-Ed Contributor E. Calvin Beisner | Wed 13 Jun 2018 13:34 EDTPope Francis Is Wrong. Climate Craziness, Not Climate Change, Threatens to 'Destroy Civilization'At a conference at the Vatican Saturday, Pope Francis told oil executives "climate change" could "destroy civilization."The Pope's warning ensues from his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si', in which he called climate change "a global problem with grave implications" and "one of the principal challenges facing humanity." He warned that it would most gravely impact the poor, many of whom "live in areas particularly affected by phenomena related to warming, and their means of subsistence are largely dependent on natural reserves and ecosystemic services such as agriculture, fishing and forestry."The Pope was then, and is now, seriously mistaken. The consequences of the world's following his advice would be disastrous—especially for the poor he purports to champion.The roughly 1.8˚F of warming since the mid-19th century has brought the world far more benefits than harm, with lengthened growing seasons, reduced disease, and reduced deaths from severe cold (which kills ten times as many people per day as severe heat). During that time of warming, human population has multiplied, human prosperity has ballooned, and human life expectancy has more than doubled.The warming has been an important contributor, but far more important has been the economic development that has lifted billions of people out of poverty. And indispensable to that has been access to abundant, affordable, reliable energy—some 85 percent of which around the world comes todayfrom fossil fuels.In an ironic self-contradiction, the Pope told the conference,If we are to eliminate poverty and hunger ... the more than one billion people without electricity today need to gain access to it. But that energy should also be clean, by a reduction in the systematic use of fossil fuels. Our desire to ensure energy for all must not lead to the undesired effect of a spiral of extreme climate changes due to a catastrophic rise in global temperatures, harsher environments and increased levels of poverty.Yet coal, oil, and natural gas have provided the vast majority of the energy that has transformed the world from one in which the vast majority of people lived on the equivalent of $1.25 a day, life expectancy at birth was under 30 years, and nearly half of all children died before age 5 to one in average income per capita exceeds $27 per day, average life expectancy at birth is over 68 years, and only about 4 out of every hundred children die before age 5.While the Pope worries that fossil fuel use threatens to "destroy civilization," one of the easiest ways to locate civilization is to look at this composite photo, provided by NASA, of the world at night and contrast the light and dark areas.The well-lit places are where civilization prevails. The dark areas are where it doesn't. And what lights the well-lit areas is electricity, two-thirds of which comes from burning fossil fuels, another 16% from hydro, and 11% from nuclear.In those well-lit areas, children can study at night to gain the education they need to become economically productive. Their families can be protected from both heat and cold not by burning wood and dung that poison their air but by setting a thermostat. They can keep their food and medicines from spoiling by using refrigerators. Laborers can work in factories powered not by muscle but by machines, multiplying their productivity hundreds of times. Hospitals can heal patients using advanced equipment.In the dark areas of the world, hundreds of millions lack electricity and all those and untold other benefits that come with it.Advocates of radical transformation of the world's energy systems to fight global warming call, as does Pope Francis, for replacing fossil fuel with wind and solar in industrialized countries and skipping the fossil-fuel stage in developing countries. But that's a recipe for disaster in both cases.Why? Because wind and solar cannot produce the abundant, reliable energy fossil fuels can at a comparable price. When accounting for all their costs—including the necessity of keeping backup power generation going for when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine—the cost per megawatt-hour of electricity from wind and solar is much higher.Poverty is a far greater threat to human welfare than climate. People with income equivalent to the bottom tenth of Americans can thrive in any climate from the Arctic Circle to the Sahara Desert or the Amazon rainforest. People in extreme poverty can't thrive in the best tropical paradise.But the energy policy Pope Francis urges would slow, stop, or reverse the conquest of poverty in the developing world while pushing hundreds of millions, even billions, in the developed world back down the economic ladder. That will mean more poverty, lower life expectancy, and higher child mortality rates.Case in point: Britain's energy policy, aimed at reducing fossil fuel use to generate electricity, has driven electricity prices sky high. The result? In the winters of 2010–2014, excess winter deaths averaged 27,860, of which 30 to 40 percent, or about 8,000 to 11,000 were attributable to "fuel poverty" brought on by the high energy prices. And this past winter, some 48,000 Britons died due to cold weather. It follows that about 14,000 to 19,000 of the deaths were attributable to fuel poverty.The good news is that over the past decade increasing scientific research has shown that we don't need to choose between conquering poverty and saving the planet from disastrous warming. The actual warming effect of doubled carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will be much smaller than the 2.7–8.1˚F the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has claimed. It is certainly less than half, probably less than a third.Indeed, as climatologist John R. Christy, meteorologist Joseph D'Aleo, and climate statistician James Wallace put it, observational evidence indicates that "once just the Natural Factor [solar, volcanic, and ocean current cycle variability] impacts on temperature data are accounted for, there is no ... Natural Factor Adjusted Warming at all" left to blame on carbon dioxide. I.e., carbon dioxide's warming effect is likely so small as to be undetectable.Climate change doesn't threaten to "destroy civilization." Misguided responses to it—including those promoted by Pope Francis—doPostJames Grant MatkinThe fear of unprecedented global warming that concerned the Pope has turned out to be 100% fake news. Fudged data and biased scientists have duped the Pope. Richard Feynman - “It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is. If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science." THE THEORY OF CO2 AS THE CONTROL KNOB OF THE EARTH'S CLIMATE 'DISAGREES WITH EXPERIMENT.' In the Southern Hemisphere, sea-ice levels just smashed through the previous record highs across Antarctica, where there is now more ice than at any point since records began. In the Arctic, where global-warming theorists preferred to keep the public focused due to some decreases in ice levels over recent years, scientists said sea-ice melt in 2014 fell below the long-term mean. Global temperatures, meanwhile, have remained steady for some 18 years and counting, contrary to United Nations models predicting more warming as carbon dioxide levels increased.Of course, all of that is great news for humanity — call off the carbon taxes and doomsday bunkers!With Ice Growing at Both Poles, Global Warming Theories ImplodeWith Ice Growing at Both Poles, Global Warming Theories Implode | PSI Intlhttps://www.christianpost.com/voice/pope-francis-is-wrong-climate-craziness-not-climate-change-threatens-to-destroy-civilization.htmlFirst, we need to address “energy poverty” if we want to end poverty.We find that energy poverty means two things: Poor people are the least likely to have access to power. And they are more likely to remain poor if they stay unconnected.Around one in seven, or 1.1 billion people, don’t have access to electricity, and almost 3 billion still cook with polluting fuels like kerosene, wood, charcoal, and dung.In Africa, the electricity challenge remains daunting. In Liberia, for example, just 2% of the population has regular access to electricity.Even countries with access often have highly unreliable service. One in three developing countries experiences at least 20 hours of power outages a month.When power is available, it can be expensive: In many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, consumers pay as much as 20-50 cents per kilowatt-hour against a global average close to 10 cents.Inclusive economic growth is the single most effective means of reducing poverty and boosting prosperity. Yet most economic activity is impossible without adequate, reliable and competitively priced modern energy.This is why access to energy is so important in the fight against poverty.https://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/what-you-need-know-about-energy-and-povertyThe Poor Need Cheap Fossil FuelsBy BJORN LOMBORGDEC. 3, 2013PRAGUE — THERE’S a lot of hand-wringing about our warming planet, but billions of people face a more immediate problem: They are desperately poor, and many cook and heat their homes using open fires or leaky stoves that burn dirty fuels like wood, dung, crop waste and coal.About 3.5 million of them die prematurely each year as a result of breathing the polluted air inside their homes — about 200,000 more than the number who die prematurely each year from breathing polluted air outside, according to a study by the World Health Organization.There’s no question that burning fossil fuels is leading to a warmer climate and that addressing this problem is important. But doing so is a question of timing and priority. For many parts of the world, fossil fuels are still vital and will be for the next few decades, because they are the only means to lift people out of the smoke and darkness of energy poverty.More than 1.2 billion people around the world have no access to electricity, according to the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook for 2012. Most of them live in sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia. That is nearly four times the number of people who live in the United States. In sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, excluding South Africa, the entire electricity-generating capacity available is only 28 gigawatts — equivalent to Arizona’s — for 860 million people. About 6.5 million people live in Arizona.Even more people — an estimated three billion — still cook and heat their homes using open fires and leaky stoves, according to the energy agency. More efficient stoves could help. And solar panels could provide LED lights and power to charge cellphones.But let’s face it. What those living in energy poverty need are reliable, low-cost fossil fuels, at least until we can make a global transition to a greener energy future. This is not just about powering stoves and refrigerators to improve billions of lives but about powering agriculture and industry that will improve lives.Over the last 30 years, China moved an estimated 680 million people out of poverty by giving them access to modern energy, mostly powered by coal. Yes, this has resulted in terrible air pollution and a huge increase in greenhouse gas emissions. But it is a trade-off many developing countries would gratefully choose. As China becomes wealthier, it will most likely begin to cut its air pollution problem through regulation, just as the rich world did in the 20th century. But, admittedly, cutting carbon-dioxide emissions will be much harder because these emissions are a byproduct of the cheap energy that makes the world go around.around the world.Today, 81 percent of the planet’s energy needs are met by fossil fuels, and according to the International Energy Agency, that percentage will be almost as high in 2035 under current policies, when consumption will be much greater. The unfortunate fact is that many people feel uncomfortable facing up to the undeniable need for more cheap and reliable power in the developing world. The Obama administration announced recently, for instance, that it would no longer contribute to the construction of coal-fired power plants financed by the World Bank and other international development banks.This should not have been a surprise. The last time the World Bank agreed to help finance construction of a coal-fired power plant, in South Africa in 2010, the United States abstained from a vote approving the deal. The Obama administration expressed concerns that the project would “produce significant greenhouse gas emissions.” But as South Africa’s finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, explained at the time in The Washington Post, “To sustain the growth rates we need to create jobs, we have no choice but to build new generating capacity — relying on what, for now, remains our most abundant and affordable energy source: coal.”The developed world needs a smarter approach toward cleaner fuels. The United States has been showing the way. Hydraulic fracturing has produced an abundance of inexpensive natural gas, leading to a shift away from coal in electricity production. Because burning natural gas emits half the carbon dioxide of coal, this technology has helped the United States reduce carbon dioxide emissions to the lowest level since the mid-1990s, even as emissions rise globally. We need to export this technology and help other nations exploit it.At the same time, wealthy Western nations must step up investments into research and development in green energy technologies to ensure that cleaner energy eventually becomes so cheap that everyone will want it.But until then they should not stand in the way of poorer nations as they turn to coal and other fossil fuels. This approach will get our priorities right. And perhaps then, people will be able to cook in their own homes without slowly killing themselves.Bjorn Lomborg is the director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a nonprofit group focused on cost-effective solutions to global problems, and the author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist.”Research released today reveals that the UK has the sixth-worst long-term rate of excess winter mortality out of 30 European countries[1]. In addition, when taking into account cold weather beyond just the winter months, the UK ranks second-worst out of 30 European countries[2].RELATED DOCUMENTSUK Has sixth-highest rate of Excess winter deaths in Europe Press ReleaseOver the last five years there has been an average of 32,000 excess winter deaths in the UK every year. Of these, 9,700 die due to a cold home[3]– the same as the number of people who die from breast or prostate cancer each year. The fact that UK homes are amongst the least energy efficient in Europe[4]confirms that these deaths are preventable.The new analysis by independent climate think tank E3G[5]and National Energy Action (NEA)[6], the UK’s leading fuel poverty organisation, is released on Fuel Poverty Awareness Day[7], the national day highlighting the problems faced by those struggling to keep warm in their homes.Pedro Guertler, co-author of the report from E3G comments:https://www.e3g.org/news/media-room/uk-has-sixth-highest-rate-of-excess-winter-deaths-in-europe3. BY SUBSIDIZING AND ADDING RENEWABLES TO THE ELECTRIC GRID.According to a recent report by the UK Energy Research Council (UKERC), the additional costs intermittent renewables impose on the electricity system can potentially rise very high and even spiral out of control in some cases.Peter Foster: Another report reluctantly admits that 'green' energy is a disastrous flopThis report should be profoundly embarrassing to the government of Justin TrudeauThe report confirms what should have been obvious from the start: the more “variable” wind and solar are introduced into any electricity system, the more they make it both more expensive and less reliable.David McNew/AFP/Getty ImageAmid hundreds of graphs, charts and tables in the latest World Energy Outlook (WEO) released last week by the International Energy Agency, there is one fundamental piece of information that you have to work out for yourself: the percentage of total global primary energy demand provided by wind and solar. The answer is 1.1 per cent. The policy mountains have laboured and brought forth not just a mouse, but — as the report reluctantly acknowledges — an enormously disruptive mouse.The International Energy Agency (IEA) has in recent years become an increasingly schizophrenic organization. As both a source of energy information and a shill for the UN’s climate-focused sustainable development agenda, it has to talk up the “transition to a low-carbon future” while simultaneously reporting that it’s not happening. But it will!This report should be profoundly embarrassing to the Liberal government of Justin Trudeau, which has virtue-signalled itself to the front of a parade that is going nowhere, although it can certainly claim genuine leadership in the more forceful route to transition: killing the fossil fuel industry by edict.Lawrence Solomon: Trudeau stands alone as Canada — and the world — abandons green energy· Terence Corcoran: We get ‘Carbon Tax for Dummies’ because they think we’re… dummiesThe WEO report, yet again, projects that global fossil fuel use — and related emissions — will grow out to 2040, as oil, gas and coal continue to dominate the energy picture. But it also struggles to put a positive spin on wind and solar. Solar had a “record-setting” year in 2017. The Chinese solar business is “booming.” New wind and solar additions “outpaced those of fossil fuels in 2017, driven by policy support and declining costs.“Policy support” means subsidies worth hundreds of millions of dollars. As for declining costs, solar is at least twice as expensive a generator as coal and almost twice as expensive as gas.Finally, and most significantly, the report confirms what should have been obvious from the start: the more “variable” wind and solar are introduced into any electricity system, the more they make it both more expensive and less reliable.The term Variable Renewable Energy, VRE, could more accurately be described as Unreliable Renewable Energy, URE, due to the terribly obvious fact that the sun doesn’t shine at night, and sometimes not during the day either, while the wind doesn’t always blow. Thus the more that wind and solar are part of your system, the more technical contortions they demand from backup power and the structure of the grid. The efficient part of the system has to twist itself into a technical pretzel to accommodate the inefficient part. Accommodating unreliability has led to outright perversity. The widespread adoption of wind and solar under Germany’s Energiewende (“energy transition”) has resulted in rising overall emissions, mainly from coal-fired backup facilities. Meanwhile the green Godot is battery storage, which is always on the point of turning up, but never quite does. Still, the IEA has a scenario for that: “What if battery storage becomes really cheap?”Supply isn’t the only area where expensive and unreliable wind and solar need to be accommodated. There is also “demand flexibility.” This includes having solar panels installed on your roof, or adopting — or being forced to adopt — “smart meters,” which can monitor a household’s electricity usage in minute-by-minute detail. According to the report, “The spreading of rooftop solar PV (photovoltaics) and the falling costs of digital technologies, combined with affordable wind and solar power options, are creating a host of new opportunities that enable consumers to take a more active role in meeting their own energy needs.”But wind and solar are not “affordable,” and few people want to take a “more active role” in meeting their energy needs (That is, unless they are being heavily “policy supported” to stick solar panels on their roofs). They just want to flip a switch.As for smart meters, the IEA notes that many countries “have successfully rolled out smart meters on a large scale, such as Canada, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Norway, Spain and Sweden.” Would such success be like the smart meter program in Ontario, which was panned by provincial auditor Bonnie Lysyk for costing an extra billion dollars and not working as advertised, while several thousand meters were found to represent a fire hazard?Although it mentions nothing of the absurdities attached to Ontario’s Green Energy Act, the WEO report confirms that Canada has the most stringent emissions pricing program in the world, at least out to 2025, at $35 a tonne (in 2017 U.S. dollars), thus cementing its competitive disadvantage. Others, such as the EU and Korea, are prepared to make marginally more self-damaging commitments out to 2040 (at US$43 and US$44 respectively), but these levels nowhere near approach that allegedly required by the beyond-fantasy “Sustainable Development Scenario,” which, for developed countries, is US$63 in 2025 and US$140 in 2040. In fact, those figures, like most of the IEA’s projections, are not worth a solar fig.The Sustainable Development Scenario not only solves the climate issue, but also takes care of universal access to modern energy and air pollution, too. Even more amazing, it achieves all this via imposing swathes of expensive and unreliable energy, but without the slightest impact on economic growth. How? By simply assuming so.The report’s solution to policy mayhem is inevitably to call for more — and more complex — policy. “Can an integrated approach spur faster action?” it asks. Since governments have screwed up so badly, might they screw up less if they try to do much more?At least they are assured of firm support from the IEACOMMENT‪James Grant Matkin‪The failure of wind and solar is the failure of storage technology. If the lack of breakthrough here is a problem of physics not invention then what? CAMILLE PAGLIA, a geologist and famous liberal intellectual upbraids her colleagues for weak thinking on climate change.‪"The simplest facts about geology seem to be missing from the mental equipment of many highly educated people these days. There is far too much credulity placed in fancy-pants, speculative computer modeling about future climate change. Furthermore, hand-wringing media reports about hotter temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere are rarely balanced by acknowledgment of the recent cold waves in South Africa and Australia, the most severe in 30 years.‪Where are the intellectuals in this massive attack of groupthink? Inert, passive and cowardly, the lot of them. True intellectuals would be alarmed and repelled by the heavy fog of dogma that now hangs over the debate about climate change."‪https://www.salon.com/2007/10/10/britney/https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/peter-foster-another-report-reluctantly-admits-that-green-energy-is-a-disastrous-flop#Lawrence Solomon: Trudeau standsalone as Canada — and the world — abandons green energyWind and solar have become the fossils of the energy industry; oil, gas and coal remain the fuels of the futureELECTRICY PRICES ARE SKY HIGH FOR COUNTRIES WITH THE MOST INVESTMENT IN RENEWABLES!Boondoggle: How Ontario's pursuit of renewable energy broke the province's electricity systemThe Ontario green electricity regime is a monumental failure. The costs to consumers are prohibitive and damaging the economyBack in 2010, deep green environmentalist Rick Smith, then head of Environmental Defence Canada, hailed Ontario’s Green Energy and Green Economy Act regime as a cost-free operation that would catapult the province into the big leagues of renewable energy. Through fat subsidies and high prices offered to wind, solar and other renewable industry players, jobs and growth would boom and Ontario would be free of its dirty coal plants. It was the End of Coal, the government said. The birth of a renewable miracle.Asked whether the plan might lead to higher prices for consumers, “No,” said Dr. Smith — he likes to be called doctor in recognition of his PhD in biology. “No. Not at all.”Smith was absolutely sure that Ontario’s campaign to become the North American leader in renewable energy would not be a burden on consumers. He had the facts, the study, and the numbers. Renewable is doable. “We’ve done some modelling on this and we’re talking a penny’s increase to your average person’s electricity bill,” he said. “Ontarians won’t even notice any impact on their electricity rates.”The penny that nobody would notice on their bills has morphed into hundreds of dollars a year, in some cases a month, to the point where the premier of the province can’t mention the word “hydro” without getting booed. The government also shocked observers last month when it suspended plans to buy more wind and solar power. Polls suggest voters are furious over electricity rates.The doubling of electricity prices since 2005 is big politically, but it is just the top-line item on a long list of problems, misconceptions and outright fabrications that lurk within the Liberal government’s decade-long pursuit of radical greenism.Instead of being a worthy model for other nations and states, the province’s green energy megaproject stands as a cautionary tale. Alberta’s NDP government, also under the spell of green activists, should look twice before following its plan to kill coal and turn green.For all the costs of going green — estimated by Ontario’s auditor general to total $170 billion over 30 years—none of the alleged economic and social benefits have materialized. [EMPHASIS ADDED] Claims by former premier Dalton McGuinty and current leader Kathleen Wynne, repeated in a recent speech from the throne, that closing coal plants dramatically reduced smog and saved $4.4 billion in health care and other costs are demonstrably untrue.The promise of maybe hundreds of thousands of renewable energy jobs was also a fantasy; today, nobody can say where the jobs are, mainly because few new permanent jobs exist.Instead of boosting Ontario’s economy and the health of its citizens, the province has created an incoherent electricity industry that many say threatens the viability of key industries.Veterans of Ontario electricity policymaking call the current Ontario electricity structure “badly broken,” a “fiasco,” a “train wreck in slow motion,” and in need of a complete overhaul.“Structurally, we’re not even close” to having a regime in place to return policy to some form of rational governance, said Jan Carr, former head of the Ontario Power Authority.Carr said cancelling new wind projects shows the government is “finally waking up to Ontario’s electricity carnage.” But it won’t be enough. “Price increases are baked in for years to come due to the long-term contracts already in place, to say nothing of the implicit promise of returns based on global norms to the public pension funds who bought into Hydro One (the transmission company now being privatized to raise cash for the government).”…https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/boondoggle-how-ontarios-pursuit-of-renewable-energy-broke-the-provinces-electricity-systemWHEN GRID ELECTRICITY RISES TOO MUCH FROM RENEWABLES THE DAMAGE HURTS THE POOR THE MOST.Studies show more die from heat poverty from 50% electricity price increases to subsidize renewables than from road accidents in the UK.

These are the most amazing and interesting facts about Tesla and why he is called as a genius.!Nikola Tesla was a Croatian-American Inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. He is the man who harnessed lightning, a true genius, he envisioned new technologies far before their time and claimed to have had contact withextraterrestrial beings.Nikola Tesla is considered one of the most innovative and mysterious men who ever lived. If Teslahadn’t invented and researched everything he did in his time, our technology today would be considerably worse. but is there something more to Tesla? Did he in fact have contact with Aliens as he publicly proclaimed? He is one of the most amazing inventors our civilization has ever known his knowledge and ideas went far and beyond what was known and accepted in his lifetime.Nikola Teslas life was truly dramatic but at an early age, Nikola Tesla showed a superior mind, inventing things as a child, showing tremendous potential. As a child, Tesla was fascinated with Thunderstorms and lightning, maybe due to the fact that at the day he was born, in modern day Croatia, a thunderstorm raged chaos across the land. Tesla became fascinated with electricity he was determined that one day he would harness the power of the Universe in benefit of all living creatures.At the age of 28, Nikola Tesla moved to the United States and started working for Thomas Edison.Edison and Tesla became quickly rivals with different ideas, Edison was experimenting with direct current and Tesla with alternating current, competing to win the right to harness Niagara Falls and whoever controlled Niagara Falls practically controlled the power to the entire Northeast.In Edison’s direct current distribution system, the steady stream of electricity would lose potency as it traveled down the line, requiring power plants every half a mile, but Edison’s current distribution system could only supply enough power to light bulbs. Tesla on the other hand was working with a far more sophisticated system, utilizing alternating current, which could easily be manipulated along the way, allowing for not only light bulbs to be powered, but also other electric devices. Using Niagara Falls as a hydroelectric power source Tesla’s alternating current could illuminate the entire Northeast.Tesla’s inventions went far beyond electricity. He made groundbreaking discoveries such as wireless radio communications, turbine engines, helicopters (although it was Da Vinci who first had the idea), fluorescent and neon lights, torpedoes and the X-ray among others. By the time of his death, Tesla held nearly 700 worldwide patents.Nikola Tesla said: “There is a difference between progress and technology, progress benefits mankind. Technology does not necessarily do that.”For decades, the forward-thinking inventor has fascinated scholars and researchers. Tesla was born at a time which, coincidentally, coincides with an ancientZoharic prophecy that speaks about the opening of the gates of wisdom upon the earth. (Here we include Albert Einstein as well).Many researchers worldwide believe Tesla was a special human being, Tesla himself claimed he had contact with ET’s and that he (or better said his brain) was a receiver.My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which “We” obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but i know it exists. – Nikola TeslaIs it possible then that Nikola Tesla was influenced by extraterrestrial beings as some researchers claim? (The ancient alien theory backs this up)Tesla and wireless power-:(1904 image of Wardenclyffe Tower located in Shoreham, Long Island, New York. The 94 by 94 ft (29 m) brick building was designed by architect Stanford White.)It has been suggested that the Great Pyramid was originally built to be an active power plant. That the primary base-line dimension of the structure is harmonically integrated to the earth via a 1/14400 ratio, and that the latitude placement has been shown to possess a most decisive association to the Earth tropical year frequency.The Wardenclyffe tower was 187 feet to the top and 120 feet into the ground. It was a giant wireless transmitter. Tesla had envisioned receiving stations, which would look just like theWardenclyffe Tower at different nodal points around the Earth. He would “jump energy” by means of wireless from station to station. But Tesla did not stop there, he claimed that with his project, using the same system practically, he could eventually jump power to different planets across the galaxy.One night, when he was alone in the laboratory, Tesla observed what he cautiously referred to as electrical actions which definitely appeared to be intelligent signals. The changes were taking place periodically and with such a clear suggestion of number and order that they could not be traced to any cause then known to him.This incident was the first of many in which Tesla intercepted what he felt were intelligent signals from space. At the time, it was surmised by prominent scientists that Mars would be a likely haven for intelligent life in our solar system, and Tesla at first thought these signals may be originating from the red planet.But free energy isn’t what mayor corporations wanted back then, and even today its the same mentality. Tesla’s dream of creating a efficient broadcast of wireless energy was cut short when its funder, J.P. Morgan discovered Tesla’s true intentions to provide free power to every soul on the planet and thus, in 1908 the project and Tesla’s dream were abandoned, shortly after that the tower was demolished.In 2007, M.I.T. researchers were able to safely transmit power wirelessly seven feet across a room.Tesla managed this at much greater distances over hundred years ago. But just how was Tesla able to transmit electricity wirelessly for several miles when modern scientists can only manage seven feet? Is there something more to Tesla and his inventions?Tesla described experiencing intense flashes of light, which were followed by moments of intense creativity and clarity. Basically Tesla was able to imagine and see an invention in his mind during this “moment of clarity” almost in holographic detail, Tesla claimed that he could even rotate these visions taking them apart piece by piece and he knew exactly how he was going to build these inventions based on his visionary experiences. Something like what we see in movies today (Ironman) Where Tony Stark, using his computer can see in full details his inventions, rotating them, adding and removing pieces…One of his greatest creations is the rotating magnetic field, and that came in a flash of intuition, in that special spark of creativity and innovation. He felt that we were receivers, that all impulses came from the outside, and that we worked on these impulses. Tesla did not believe that these came from dreams or inner visions. Could these flashes of intuition, clarity and creativity be proof that Tesla was indeed being contacted by extraterrestrial beings who were in a sense feeding him information? when we look back into our history, practicallyprophets of the past received information the same way.Throughout Egypt we can find many depictions on Temples and Obelisks that look suspiciously like modern-day light bulbs andTesla coils. Perhaps these giant Temples, Pyramids and other constructions found worldwide were all part of some extraterrestrial energy grid.In 1899 While testing a magnifying transmitter he built to track storms, Nikola Tesla claimed he received some sort of transmission from an unknown source. Tesla was tracking thunderstorms 600 miles away and all of a sudden he heard three beats in sequence and it didn’t make any sense. He thought about these signals and thought they might have originated somewhere in space. Did he find an extraterrestrial signal originating somewhere within our solar system? Tesla’s transmitter most likely was sensitive enough to receive radio waves and he interpreted the received signals as Extraterrestrial – not from this Earth.Tesla believed it’s absurd to think we’re the only intelligent beings in the universe and if there are indeed intelligent beings, wouldn’t they want to communicate with other “civilized” beings? Tesla reported this otherworldly communication and proclaimed his belief in extraterrestrials in February of 1901, in an article for Collier’s Weekly:“As I was improving my machines for the production of intense electrical actions, I was also perfecting the means for observing feeble efforts. One of the most interesting results and also one of great practical importance, was the development of certain contrivances for indicating at a distance of many hundred miles an approaching storm, its direction, speed and distance traveled.“It was in carrying on this work that for the first time I discovered those mysterious effects which have elicited such unusual interest. I had perfected the apparatus referred to so far that from my laboratory in the Colorado mountains I could feel the pulse of the lobe, as it were, noting every electrical change that occurred within a radius of eleven hundred miles.“I can never forget the first sensations I experienced when it dawned upon me that I had observed something possibly of incalculable consequences to mankind. I felt as though I were present at the birth of a new knowledge or the revelation of a great truth. My first observations positively terrified me as there was present in them something mysterious, not to say supernatural, and I was alone in my laboratory at night; but at that time the idea of these disturbances being intelligently controlled signals did not yet present itself to me.““The changes I noted were taking place periodically and with such a clear suggestion of number and order that they were not traceable to any cause known to me. I was familiar, of course, with such electrical disturbances as are produced by the sun, Aurora Borealis, and earth currents, and I was as sure as I could be of any fact that these variations were due to none of these causes.““The nature of my experiments precluded the possibility of the changes being produced by atmospheric disturbances, as has been rashly asserted by some. It was sometime afterward when the thought flashed upon my mind that the disturbances I had observed might be due to an intelligent control.“Although I could not at the time decipher their meaning, it was impossible for me to think of them as having been entirely accidental. The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another. A purpose was behind these electrical signals.”Nikola Tesla became in some way obsessed with received other radio signals from other planets and based on the transmission he received he developed a theory that there has been extraterrestrial presence on earth and that the universe, somewhere harbors intelligent extraterrestrial lifeforms. Did Tesla have direct contact with ET’s? And is it possible that through this communication he was able to obtain the necessary knowledge to develop some of the mayor inventions like wireless energy transmission or rotating magnetic field way ahead of his time?Tesla talked about atoms working like solar systems, and that light could work as a wave and a particle. Einstein got a Nobel Prize for saying light worked like a particle, and Bohr and Rutherford got a Nobel Prize for saying that atoms were like little solar systems. Tesla was close to winning the Nobel Prize in the early 1900’s, but mysteriously he never did. Why was Tesla removed from the “nucleus” of quantum physics when he was practically one of it’s “fathers”.In 1934 Tesla made headlines with his most controversial invention, “the death beam” which according to Tesla, could generate enough energy to bring down a fleet of 10,000 airplanes at a distance of 250 miles away. Tesla discovered that he could direct a beam of plasma with solid particles for long distances through the air like a lightning bolt.Tesla, UFO’s and flying machinesAccording to historians, Tesla began work on his flying machine in 1910, focusing on the use of field propulsion, or anti-gravity Tesla had discovered that high amounts of electricity could actually create lift in an object. Tesla talked aboutanti-gravity ships that could derive power from his Wardenclyffe Towers that were broadcasting energy. Tesla’s models did not include wings nor fuel they were completely electric flying machines.If Tesla did in fact work on anti-gravity flying machines, is there any proof? Well… there actually is, you only have to look at the depictions of flying machines in ancient Hindu texts like theMahabharata that could really prove that Tesla had otherworldly knowledge and help to design anti-gravity spaceships. The list of technologies that can be traced back to the drawing board of Nikola Tesla is endless: Modern humanoid robotics, solar and wind power, weather manipulation, drones and even planetary exploration vehicles. But Tesla’s interests went beyond inventions and technology.Nikola Tesla was obsessed with the number three and he was very interested in numerology to the point he had to circle a building three times before entering it, you could say that he was a very superstitious man. He had calculated nodal points around the planet and they were probably linked to the numbers three, six and nine and Tesla claimed that these numbers were extremely important.If you knew the magnificence of the three, six and nine, you would have a key to the universe. – Nikola TeslaThe number “three”If we go to the Great Pyramid of Giza, not only are there the three larger pyramids at Giza, all side by side, mirroring the positions of the stars in Orion’s Belt, but we also see a group of three smaller pyramids immediately away from the three larger pyramids. We find lots of evidence that nature uses threefold and sixfold symmetry, including the hexagonal tile shape of the common honeycomb. These shapes are in nature, and the ancients emulated these shapes in the building of their sacred architecture. Is it possible that there is something special about the mysterious number three? is it possible that Tesla uncovered this profound secret and used this knowledge to push the boundaries of science and technology?Earlier in his career, while conducting research with one of his transformer coils, Nikola Tesla had a near-death experience when he came in contact with a resonating electromagnetic charge of three and a half million volts. Tesla was working with 60-foot lightning bolts and he made a mistake where he almost got electrocuted.He barely escaped with his life, and because of the shock that he had, he claimed to have had a revelation where he entered a state of timelessness where he could see the past, the future and the present all at once in this mystic vision, but he was paralyzed and he couldn’t do anything about it. He claimed that he was moved through time and spaceThe Philadelphia ExperimentJust before his death,Nikola Tesla was working with another genius, Albert Einstein on a project for theUnited States Navy at the Philadelphia Naval Yard where they were trying to create an electromagnetically charged invisibility cloak for the USS Eldridge. The experiment was allegedly based on an aspect of the unified field theory, a term coined by Albert Einstein. The Unified Field Theory aims to describe mathematically and physically the interrelated nature of the forces that comprise electromagnetic radiation and gravity, although to date, no single theory has successfully expressed these relationships in viable mathematical or physical terms.Basically they were trying to create a stealth technology. they mounted a large number of Tesla coils to create a plasma field around the ship, which makes the ship “invisible” to radar, but something unexpected occurred during the process.The ship didn’t just disappear from radar, according to reports the USS Eldridge disappeared completely and reappeared with some of the crew “embedded” into the metal of the ship. Mainstream scientists believe the so-called Philadelphia Experiment is a just hoax, but some insist the account is authentic. Leaked testimony from classified levels of secrecy in the U.S. government the Philadelphia Experiment was real, that the soldiers on that ship got disoriented, and they ended up walking into the hull. After the ship “reappeared” their bodies melded into the metal of the hull.“Tesla was once quoted as saying… The present is theirs, but the future for which I have really worked is mine.”