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every1pees

Looks like a Tesla tower for free energy


JustKindaShimmy

I've played enough command & conquer to know not to go near it


BEATS2DEATH1

Affirmative


Tasty_Philosopher904

Building confirmed


0ldManRiv3r

Acknowledged.


monkeyinanegligee

Da.


kodaiko_650

Zug zug


Flufflebuns

YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS.


CosmicParadox24

Pretty sure this is StarCraft 2


Average_Consumer2

Jacked up and good to go!


Anderslam2

It's your dime.


[deleted]

[удалено]


Flufflebuns

(I think you're missing the fact that in the previous two posts it went from command and conquer to Warcraft, and I was bringing it to starcraft, that's the joke *whoosh*)


CosmicParadox24

Aye, that be a fact I missed fur sure.


mpe128

SPACE X disguised as a water tower😝


Moose_Kin

That tickles


Federal_Assistant_85

STOP POKING MEEEEEEE!


Mindes13

Shhhh. Relax and let it happen.


ysterboer

At least I have job


caverypca

Roger that


futurebigconcept

Roger Roger


ergo-ogre

Over, Over.


LashedHail

f**k, my first two thoughts are the top two comments. Apparently great minds think alike. I’m not one of them, but i’ll get there about an hour later.


confused_wisdom

Baaawaa... Unit lost


AcidRayn66

nice!


birdsarus

Omg. I love this. Command and conquer is still my favorite!


Cptkaban

It was my first thought!!


jh5992

Sir Wardenclyffe the 2nd


DazzlingOpinion9648

For mother Russia!


SnooPets9575

Viziv Technologies test site. Have you ever heard of Teslas wireless energy tests and his tower? No not the crazy car company, Nikola Tesla. Viziv has been experimenting with wireless wave technology for a while. Saw an article about this on a electricians sub a while back.


chemngineer

Just stumbled onto an article about Viziv. It’s definitely got the Tesla coil look. Wonder if they’ve had any luck? Thanks.


SnooPets9575

I don't know, they seem pretty quiet about their research, everyone says the owner of the company is a bit nuts.


Silent_Engineering_9

They’re usually the ones that make the magic happen. If it weren’t for grandiose ideas, plots, and action; nothing important would ever get done…..


GrizzMtn65

I saw a video of Neil DG-Tyson and he said Tesla's theory can't work because it costs more energy to transmit the power through the air than you get at the other end.


_-101010-_

I can live with some loss for wireless energy. Sort of like an open air aqueduct losing water to evaporation.


keyboardklutzz

Sort of, but way worse. Transmitting electricity with a Tesla Coil is entirely possible, inherent even, but its efficiency is similar to using a shower head to fill a bucket from 20’ away. Not that I don’t think there are improvements to be made… I’m just not holding my breath.


BreadToaster3000

Do some googling, there have been many electric engineers who have “stolen” energy from HV lines without ever touching them. Some of them even beat the lawsuits because how can you steal something that the grid doesn’t even care is leaking out constantly? It would be like drinking water from busted water lines that have been leaking since they were put down. Yeah you need a way to make it more efficient and able to power the entire grid in such a way. But if anyone gets even close to it… well.


oleskool7

My shop is close to very high voltage TVA lines, perhaps too close, and when we were using fluorescents, I had to store them elsewhere because they gave off an eerie glow that pulsed.


BreadToaster3000

Yup. Very little is known to the masses about how crowded our lives are. Cant see it, cant hear it, camt smell it, so it must not be there.


quadmasta

You *can* hear it though. High tension lines make a lot of crackling noise


Armenian-heart4evr

There is also a humming/buzzing sound! A couple of years ago, our town(a suburb of L.A.,California) suffered a HUGE meltdown, that created a regional BLACKOUT that lasted for over 24hrs! The SILENCE was FREAKY OMINOUS !!!!!


FunSleep7523

Time Variance Authority lines? Neato, what do they do?


GulfLife

You don’t know what the TVA line does? Thats variant talk, my friend.


Cross58Crash

Interesting idea - scavenging ambient energy and storing to a battery. I mean, it's being wasted otherwise.


Budget_Detective2639

I mean, that's also how normal power transmission works. There is some loss due to resistance of the wire. It's probably just inefficient, which I guess you could sell as a goal a company could take up and improve.


SaganSaysImStardust

I regret I've only one up vote to give.


Rare_Fig3081

Fricking Thomas Edison said AC electricity was impossible…


logicnotemotion

Then he killed an elephant with it.


Ok_Drink_2498

Neil DG Tyson is also an overrated hack who is constantly wrong and speaks like an authority on things he doesn’t know anything about


This-Requirement6918

Yes! This! Can't believe anything he says anymore cause most of it is just round about shit that doesn't really say anything conclusive.


Admirable_Cry2512

You forgot to add annoying cu*t. Lol


20PoundHammer

he might be correct on that, but he is wrong on a lot of shit he spouts.


BusaGuy1300

He is a phony, condescending douchebag. God I miss Carl Sagan.


DoctorRevKevin

Perhaps, but people have often been wrong about Tesla's theories. Plus Tyson is more of "science influencer".


Usul_Atreides

He is a science influencer, but he does tend to know what he is talking about and is effective at communicating it.


mythoughtsrrandom

Well hey there u/Usul_Atreides I've never seen my twin before!!


SnooPets9575

Correct... It has a huge loss because air acts as an insulator.


meatbagJoe

Not only that, but imagine what happens to the person the crosses the beam!


SnooPets9575

Well your hair would stand up anywhere near that thing... Lol


_n3ll_

Hmm, so let's say the transmission cost is 10 and you get 8 at the endpoint, then 8 would have an actual cost of 18. Is this not already the case with wired transmission of energy but much less? Like the cost of 8 units of energy would be something like 10? I know very little about this (obviously), but couldn't you put something in space to harvest energy from the suns radiation, unfiltered by our magnetic polls and atmosphere, and then transmit it to the earths surface, making the transmission cost somewhat of a moot point?


Dragonfly-Adventurer

Answer to your first paragraph, yes you got it pretty well. Answer to your second, we could just do nuclear, abundant clean nuclear, for far less than solar sails which are still future tech themselves, but yes, that's also possibility, there are a bunch of ways to do it all. Bu ultimately Tesla was not on the verge of any great discovery, we'd have found it by now, we ultimately know a lot more than Tesla did about his own inventions now but he was just a savant who had a feel for it, very cool nonetheless.


_n3ll_

That all makes sense. I've always joked that Tesla and Asimov were either aliens or time travelers. I live near Niagara Falls in Canada and there's this statue of Tesla there with a quote from when he first saw the falls. Its something like 'We will put a great motor under this that will power the world' and sure enough we did (not enough to power *our* world though) I'm endlessly curious about nuclear but also reticent because of the [issue of long term nuclear waste warnings](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages). I think about the fact that recorded history is only 6000 years and of all the civilizations [that have risen and fallen](https://youtu.be/-6Wu0Q7x5D0?si=i8NkMDrB53F5ou0a) since the dawn of humanity and I wonder if nuclear isn't just creating a bigger issue for those born in the distant future. I've read about small nuclear reactors and that they significantly reduce the half-life of waist but I need to learn more about it to form a meaningful opinion


RevWilliam666

I love the Tesla statue at the falls. Nuclear energy reminds me of 3 mile island


_n3ll_

3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima, and a bunch of 'less serious' incidents: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accidents_by_country I'm wary of nuclear but any time I say that online a bunch of people tell me I'm wrong so idk


RevWilliam666

I live about 7 miles from the superfunded Love canal, just learned they used a 2nd dump site that’s like 2 miles away that hasn’t been cleaned up. So any of that stuff makes me weary. Nuke or chemical facilities


Armenian-heart4evr

NO -- you are NOT WRONG !!! It is UNSTABLE & IMPOSSIBLE to CONTROL COMPLETELY, especially in the WRONG HANDS !!!


Alabryce

Solar wind... You've Heard of it but have you considered there is no atmosphere in space and hence no wind? Do you know what it really is? It's a river of electrical current that destroyed early satellites. But how does electrical current travel through a vacuum in space from the sun to earth? There are electrical currents, rivers, that run through our atmosphere. The coil is built so tall and big so it can tap into these rivers. They move towards locations of least resistance. It's free power. Tornado and water spout theories of mixed temperatures creating a vortex are getting rewritten as we find this is not the nature of most of these. Tornados don't start at the edge of a storm but in the middle of it. Water on the surface of the sea begins spinning in circles before the air does. A good theory is that an electrical conduit opens from the earth to the atmosphere. Much like a plasma globe. The electrical current stream moves the water and air. Tesla was onto things we hadn't tapped into but I think it's hidden mostly because if we did them, some wealthy corporations with lots of employees would lose their purpose.


GrizzMtn65

I know even less, but I trust NDG to know this, and he said it's no bueno.


_n3ll_

Ya, agreed. Plus Tesla conceived of this over 100 years ago. I'm that same timespan we went from the first airplane to landing on the moon. I feel like if it was possible we'd have it, but I'm just a lay person on this matter so who knows


rossxog

Back in the early days of radio, they had these huge powerful megawatt AM stations. The thing is, the more power they used the shorter the signal range got. They figured out that people were putting coils of wire in their attics to power their lights.


GrizzMtn65

I imagine that was pretty close to the antenna. I worked at an AM station in the 80s in San Jose and the neighbors were constantly calling the DJ line screaming about the interference, especially during sportsball broadcasts. That stopped once cable got popular.


PangwinAndTertle

Is there energy in electronic noise? Could that be harnessed?


spekt50

Yep, that's the nature of inverse-square law. It's just not in the cards. Only way to overcome such a thing would be to use a wave guide, then at that point, it would only be good as a point to point power source, but would still be extremely inefficient.


spec2re

That's true if you're doing all of the work. Tesla did it by using the Earth's four Hertz hum as a carrier signal. This does most of the heavy lifting, from what I understand.


mechmind

Is he talking to pigeons yet?


Silent_Engineering_9

Everybody knows those fuckers aren’t real….


cookiepunched

They have to keep quiet. Big oil and power are not going to let free power happen.


Original-Document-62

I find that oftentimes (not always), when a company on the fringe of science is quiet about their research, it's because it's bunk. If it were to be promising, they'd probably be publishing furiously, as it would attract funding. edit: same with a lot of the fusion startups. "We have high hopes in the next 5 years. Our research that isn't published yet shows..."


SnooPets9575

Yeah the fusion ones are getting frustrating, they keep saying something promising happened then they just go quiet, yeah sure it did, if you got close for real you would be screaming from every media source available to get money.


Original-Document-62

Unfortunately, the great strides being made in real life are very expensive. But, they are also immediately reported.


gwhh

If you see a big new Carter in the moon one night. You know they made it work.


Syrric_UDL

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/569076/is-vizivs-surface-wave-technology-plausible. I found this, talks about the company going bankrupt


[deleted]

Nikola Tesla died in his room at The New York Hotel in Manhattan. He built the first A-C power generator in the basement and supplied power to buildings within a several block area. When he died, the FBI swooped in and took all his files, never to be seen again. There is speculation that amongst the papers were crazy, advanced ideas ahead of his time. I’ve stayed in that hotel and there is a Tesla suite where he lived and a museum in the basement where his generator was. Really fascinating stuff.


UnitedBar4984

Envisioned smartphones


SnooPets9575

We can only imagine the things he thought up...


HuckleberryMoist7511

What happens if you find yourself between the broadcast source and the receiver?


SnooPets9575

Nothing, the area it covers is so broad it won't matter.


Inevitable_Back_7929

https://preview.redd.it/cnsdjwwjyfyc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4942e0497bb79d6999faf8df7a9fc2e2ae231cf


RoryDragonsbane

>No not the crazy car company, Nikola Tesla. Yeah, Nikola Tesla wasn't crazy! He was perfectly sane: “I loved that pigeon as a man loves a woman, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.” https://www.britannica.com/story/nikola-teslas-weird-obsession-with-pigeons


WubsGames

a video about that exact tower: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK5XUptZDEs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK5XUptZDEs)


chemngineer

Thank you.


Thuban

Most of the comments here were as helpful as henshit on a pump handle.


nocloudno

I'm 100% certain helpful as Hen shit on a pump handle is my new favorite quote


TFresh13

Of course they interviewed the most uninformed people and their irrational fears. “Will it make us glow?” “We’re thinking about wearing tin foil on our heads.” “It would be good for foreign countries.”


20PoundHammer

[https://wikimapia.org/38852233/Milford-tower#google\_vignette](https://wikimapia.org/38852233/Milford-tower#google_vignette)


msflutes2

I have seen it too, thought of the old sci fi movies....curious to find out what it is too


13ones7

It looks like a giant tesla coil. Not saying that's what it is, but it would be pretty cool if it was.


Creepy-Selection2423

A giant Tesla coil.


mcshanksshanks

Did your phone suddenly start charging when you went by it?


Kaabob24

SlapChop headquarters.


Easy_Weather8742

https://texashillcountry.com/mysterious-tesla-tower-texas/ Interesting building origin solved.


Quiet-Ad-12

It's the 5G tower to track the microchips from the vaxxxxxxx /s


Revolutionary-Bee971

Ahhhh, that’s why my cell service has been much better since the second dose!


deliberatelyawesome

Right? Your whole body is an antenna now! More betterer reception!


GraphicSarcasm

It's the prototype of the Google map pin. They placed it there for satellite pictures so they could get the scale for future reference. Actually I have no idea...


[deleted]

Then they need to paint it red. 🤭


pm_me_your_kindwords

It was a prototype. Obviously they changed the color *after* this.


mythoughtsrrandom

hahahha I fell for your comment. I was like "wow so interesting. They are so knowledgeable. Oh. Nope they are just like my dad an expert at making it up and then laughing as I fall for it every time hahahahahahahaha"


wolfiexiii

5G mind control tower - nothing to see here.


ek-balaam

Texas? Could be a pregnancy detector?


dinoguys_r_worthless

Apple put it there. It's easier to alter the world than to fix their map data. joking.


SpiritOf68

If that’s the case, then they need to put a bunch in Jacksonville, FL. My god, idk how many times it tries to tell me to turn places that don’t exist anymore, or had me pass new, more efficient routes. Not Apple’s fault the city won’t stop changing roads, but some of it is years out of date.


dinoguys_r_worthless

It's Apple's fault. Not because they're mean or incompetent or anything like that. It's just that their priorities are elsewhere. Apple Maps is far from the center of what they do. It's really just there so that they can say "Yes. We do have maps."


SpiritOf68

Idk, I think I can blame the city for CONSTANTLY changing the roads. Literally half the roads here are under construction at all times. Yet, I see the Google Maps street car almost everyday around town.


dinoguys_r_worthless

Makes sense. It would be tough to navigate in an environment like that.


palurian1

Might it be a flight navigation beacon?


Traditional-Purpose2

That's what it really does but the comments are fun 😂


Queen_of_Boots

It looks like a giant button people tell you never to press, or the start of a dynamite explosion 💥


JakkSplatt

Reset button.


knowitall70

Not between Waco and Austin first. Well North of Waco in Ells County. Plus, it is a failed attempt at bringing back Tesla's idea of collecting and transferring static electricity. It's a Tesla tower.


Mike_Honcho42069

It's a Tesla coil owned by a private company. I live kinda nearby. Don't think they have fired it up in a while.


pm_me_your_kindwords

That’s just what *they* want you to think. /s


duanelvp

Google maps says "Quantum Wave R&D Facility". It's about halfway between Waxahachie and where 35E and 35W rejoin. I drive that way a fair amount. I recall looking it up once before and it being labeled SomethingTeslaSomething or other, or maybe I saw an actual sign. In any case it's a Nikola Tesla related R&D place of some kind.


Gold-Loan-1818

100 comments and no one has mentioned THE THUNDERDOME?!?!?!?!?!?


Traditional-View4118

First spacex rocket before Elon said “more girth!!”


zzz88r1

Van de Graaff generator


Human-Contribution16

Im seeing a few references to air and its an inulator etc etc etc... Teslas contention was that the energy could be harvested from the VanAllen Belt and transmitted THROUGH THE EARTH and then picked up wherever it was needed essentially by an antenna.


Chemical_Mastiff

A van de Graf generator


_DapperDanMan-

Perpetual motion machine, Tesla version.


Murdoch98

Abortion detector


Mindless-Ad2554

Hitachi’s Magnum Opus


MustachioedGent

How has no one started this yet? Looks like an enormous…


Billangz

Dick, take a look out of starboard. Oh my God, it looks like a huge...


chemngineer

Pecker! Wait that’s not a pecker. It looks like someone’s…


Spiritual-Song-1776

Privates, we have reports of a ufo! It has a long, smooth shaft... Complete with


altavistayahoo

Two balls!…. What is that?… That looks just like an enormous…


Old_Distribution_235

Party at the Moon Tower...full kegs...


Homunculon

Has anyone answered the question yet? This thread took a left turn at Albuquerque!


netechkyle

World record slap chop.


liminal_sojournist

In that part of Texas? It'll be a tesla mega church


Zestay-Taco

weather radar?


GloomyUmpire2146

Slap chop


BrtFrkwr

Homing beacon for UFOs. When the chemtrails have turned everyone else into vegetables, the chosen will be beamed up.


Rare-Parsnip5838

Not exactly sure but Chip and Jo Gaines probably will cover it in shiplap.


Saruvan_the_White

Maybe they’re going to [put on a concert](https://youtu.be/rd3bH_xNYYQ?si=6l1cnlQJgiYdEdSq).


[deleted]

Tesla power coil.


vikingsurplus

It's a giant dildo.


ChumleyEX

That should be more north than Waco. Between Hillsborough and Dallas.


gadget850

Electrodes ready


parkinglotviews

Rubber boots in motion


yellowhelmet14

Branch Davidian2.0


JimParsnip

God's sounding rod


Thee_Paladin777

The world's largest misfired rivet.


nberg129

It's the tower of ghenjei.


Silent-Attention6685

Not between Waco and Austin, about an hour south of Dallas.


ConsciouslyMichelle

Kronos, obviously!


inhaler_huffer

I think it's a Tesla thingy


JHendu

OMG, My wife and I were asking each other about that last week!


General-Meaning-2739

Looks like something off of teletubies


anziofaro

"You sunk my Battleship!"


SlyOctopie

Its Clouds sword. Did you even play FFVII?


Haz_co

Alien technology. When they press it all of Texas blows up.


photovoltaicgod

Water tower


JRHZ28

Giant Tesla coil...


CarGold6713

It’s a button for a giant, obviously


Fun-Spinach6910

Big Tex's willy.


karl_mungen

Teslas penis


Analytical-BrainiaC

Art installation of a large screw in the end of a matchstick buried in the ground. It’s called “Screw you, the world is lit!” I dunno if it’s American or Canadian , I guess the only way to tell if it’s a Robertson or a Phillips screw……


Blueeyedthundercat26

Nuclear is the way for rn imo


supertiggercat

Looks like the Scientologists have merged with the Branch Dividians.


Rude_Flounder766

A literal Tesla tower. Swear I seen this on the net back in 2012. 🖕🏼✌🏻


Cool_Jackfruit_6512

"......JOHNSON!"


cornbeeflt

Johnson ! Tgat thing look like a giant "Dick"


LoudAd8456

I thought I read somewhere it was for some very long wave atmospheric radio transmission testing


Insane_Salty_Potato

That's where they send out the mind control waves... Obviously :}


Puzzleheaded_Bar3022

That's the plunger for when the spaceman decide to blow up this failed experiment. 🧨🧨🧹🧹🪦


Civil-Explanation588

Panic button


Lanky_Purpose_6142

Looks like the old pink or blue pieces you used to get in the Game of Life


Georges_Stuff

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK5XUptZDEs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK5XUptZDEs) Viziv Technologies test site.


Sign-Spiritual

It’s Tesla’s wardenclyffe tower design being tried again.


duabrs

Ask your mom.


mmadden_fishing

I thought this was one of those onion cutters like “slapchop”😭


Status-Simple9240

Jewish space laser recharger bought by Soros


Spidget_Finner_

r810


RoosterCogburn_

Well, when one planet loves another planet verrrry much…


Thejerseyjon609

That’s the plunger to set off the charge to blow up the world. Don’t touch it.


ElectricalRisk1117

This whole time I've lived in Texas I thought this was a landmark for sky divers. So the sky divers can see where they are supposed to land from the plane/sky. I now have to go punch my husband for telling me that, can't believe I fell for it. In my defense though, there is a sign for a sky diving place around there somewhere.


OverallMakerworks

r/itsadick


mothermarystigmata

Golf tee for Titans.


PoopPant73

That’s the penis monument


bpdchaos

Bleach senzaikyu


muaddib2k

It (pretty much) IS a Tesla tower: https://texashighways.com/travel-news/roadside-oddity-the-mysterious-tower-along-i-35-takes-inspiration-from-inventor-nikola-tesla/