The Search For Free Energy: A scientific tale of jealousy, genius and
electricity by Keith Tutt, with a Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke; Simon &
Schuster, £18.99, ISBN 0684866609
THE Croatian-American inventor Nikola Tesla was seriously weird. He soothed
his head with X-rays, attempted communication with Mars and proposed
broadcasting power by wireless. But however strange his approach, Tesla was also
the originator of the rotating magnetic field that led to the alternating
current (AC) electric motor and three-phase AC—key technologies that
shaped traditional electricity systems throughout the 20th century.
Compared to Tesla, most of the dramatis personae in Keith…
