Comments on: Infrastructures falling apart! http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2007/07/19/infrastructures-falling-apart/ a gift to you and me accidently on purpose somewhere but mostly in the city Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:47:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Administrator http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2007/07/19/infrastructures-falling-apart/#comment-266 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:04:29 +0100 http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2007/07/19/infrastructures-falling-apart/#comment-266 That is the point! The public has very little say in the biggest expenses governments make that affect our environments, habitats and how we consume. In terms of Nuclear energy the public has been very vocal and few decision makers have listened. Imagine if the public were able to lobby to keep transit infrastructures at the turn of the 20th century in LA! Imagine if we did not kill the electric car! etc. Best I can see Tesla principles are at work in the following article which he is quoted as having been the first inventor of these principles - Friday, June 08, 2007 A Wirelessly Powered Lightbulb Researchers at MIT have created a revolutionary device that could remotely charge batteries and power household appliances. By Kate Greene http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/18836/ He was known as an eccentric, but also an immigrant with a very thick accent and suffered much exclusion as a result of quite anti foreigner sentiment at the time. Edison also greatly disliked him. So the historical references you are referring to may simply be reflecting the sentiment of biased reporters, historians referring to tesla contemporary biased reports, and Edison fans. But I would have to know what you are reading to know that. Finally those questions are for me! Can I actually answer them at this time with facts? Nope! Graham and Marvin have done a pretty good job though! Worth reading. That is the point! The public has very little say in the biggest expenses governments make that affect our environments, habitats and how we consume. In terms of Nuclear energy the public has been very vocal and few decision makers have listened. Imagine if the public were able to lobby to keep transit infrastructures at the turn of the 20th century in LA! Imagine if we did not kill the electric car! etc.

Best I can see Tesla principles are at work in the following article which he is quoted as having been the first inventor of these principles -

Friday, June 08, 2007
A Wirelessly Powered Lightbulb

Researchers at MIT have created a revolutionary device that could remotely charge batteries and power household appliances.

By Kate Greene
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/18836/

He was known as an eccentric, but also an immigrant with a very thick accent and suffered much exclusion as a result of quite anti foreigner sentiment at the time. Edison also greatly disliked him. So the historical references you are referring to may simply be reflecting the sentiment of biased reporters, historians referring to tesla contemporary biased reports, and Edison fans. But I would have to know what you are reading to know that.

Finally those questions are for me! Can I actually answer them at this time with facts? Nope! Graham and Marvin have done a pretty good job though! Worth reading.

]]> by: mtl3p http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2007/07/19/infrastructures-falling-apart/#comment-265 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:29:14 +0100 http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2007/07/19/infrastructures-falling-apart/#comment-265 Okay - it's just that it seems that you're suggesting the questions in your last paragraph seem to be happening. "What does it mean to urban civilizations when the infrastructure starts to crumble? When neglected infrastructures become dangerous? When we no longer know who the central authorities and centres of responsibility are? When infrastructures no longer serve local needs and only centres of power on a global scale? When infrastructures are no longer the cohesive physical structures to glue a nation together? What happens when the public no longer has a say…" All that stuff. I'm just not aware that the public has any less of a say now in infrastructure than they did. And Tesla never actually made wireless energy. Mostly people think that he was a crackpot vis-a-vis that. I thought. Okay - it’s just that it seems that you’re suggesting the questions in your last paragraph seem to be happening.
“What does it mean to urban civilizations when the infrastructure starts to crumble? When neglected infrastructures become dangerous? When we no longer know who the central authorities and centres of responsibility are? When infrastructures no longer serve local needs and only centres of power on a global scale? When infrastructures are no longer the cohesive physical structures to glue a nation together? What happens when the public no longer has a say…”

All that stuff. I’m just not aware that the public has any less of a say now in infrastructure than they did.

And Tesla never actually made wireless energy. Mostly people think that he was a crackpot vis-a-vis that. I thought.

]]> by: Administrator http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2007/07/19/infrastructures-falling-apart/#comment-264 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:37:19 +0100 http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2007/07/19/infrastructures-falling-apart/#comment-264 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070719.woverpasses0720/BNStory/National/?cid=al_gam_nletter_newsUp Quebec closes 135 overpasses to extra-heavy trucks TU THANH HA From Friday's Globe and Mail July 19, 2007 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070719.woverpasses0720/BNStory/National/?cid=algamnletter_newsUp

Quebec closes 135 overpasses to extra-heavy trucks

TU THANH HA

From Friday’s Globe and Mail

July 19, 2007

]]> by: Administrator http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2007/07/19/infrastructures-falling-apart/#comment-263 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:46:36 +0100 http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2007/07/19/infrastructures-falling-apart/#comment-263 I dunno who chicken little is? Reread the post, it is not a statement about the global neglect of infrastructures, it is about how we do not pay attention to infrastructures until something goes wrong. It is also about how reliant on them we are and why we should really pay a little more attention to them. Regarding Tesla - wireless energy. I dunno who chicken little is?

Reread the post, it is not a statement about the global neglect of infrastructures, it is about how we do not pay attention to infrastructures until something goes wrong. It is also about how reliant on them we are and why we should really pay a little more attention to them.

Regarding Tesla - wireless energy.

]]> by: mtl3p http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2007/07/19/infrastructures-falling-apart/#comment-262 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:33:44 +0100 http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2007/07/19/infrastructures-falling-apart/#comment-262 eh - great information, but there's a chicken little tone to it. I don't know if it's on purpose or just the result of asking 6 rhetorical questions in a row. ;-) I'm not sure that the increased media coverage of infrastructure problems actually corresponds to an increasing global neglect of them. You didn't mention anything to back that up. And what's the tesla model of power generation? I guess that he was working something before he died, but it wasn't acheived, was it? Because Tesla did end up wining the AC / DC battle against Edison. eh - great information, but there’s a chicken little tone to it. I don’t know if it’s on purpose or just the result of asking 6 rhetorical questions in a row. ;-)

I’m not sure that the increased media coverage of infrastructure problems actually corresponds to an increasing global neglect of them. You didn’t mention anything to back that up.

And what’s the tesla model of power generation? I guess that he was working something before he died, but it wasn’t acheived, was it? Because Tesla did end up wining the AC / DC battle against Edison.

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