Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Sunday, August 9, 2015

Tesla Energies and Undiscovered Repercussions of Free Energy

Greetings Freewill,

Some of your readers may find this paper interesting about Tesla and his early scientific experiments previously not published.

Best regards, UFP

http://urantiafreepress.blogspot.ca/2015/08/tesla-energies-undiscovered.html

Sunday, July 12, 2015

The QEG is a Switched Reluctance Generator. A study that helps de-mystify how the QEG works.


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We wanted to show that the technology behind the QEG is a very real, very practical mechanism. The only reason why it is not well known is because it has been suppressed and underutilized. However, with changing times and the increasing need for alternative forms of energy, the QEG technology is already being employed in major motor manufacturing companies and is still slated to dominate the renewable energy industry in the future despite newer technologies that are coming out. This is because of its simple construction and low manufacturing costs.
The following is the first full chapter of our QEG eBook published here in its entirety written by Dijon Rios (AKA Tivon Rivers). We wanted to publish this freely to provide a reference source to help bridge the gap in the further development and distribution of this alternative form of energy creation.
THE LEGACY
A brief history of the reluctance generator
By Dijon Rios, Space Visuals Seaside Engineer
The generator build in this course is of the ‘reluctance’ type, and can also be defined as a variant of the following: variable induction generator and flux alternator. To better understand why this class of generator is slated to still dominate the clean tech sector (in spite of new technologies), we must first recap the development of this technology.
An electric motor is an electrical machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy. Electric motors produce either linear or rotary force (torque), and are found in the following applications: industrial fans, pumps, machine tools, household appliances, power tools, and disk
drives. They can be powered by either direct current sources (i.e batteries, motor vehicles or rectifiers), or by alternating current sources (such as from the power grid, inverters or generators). General-purpose motors with highly standardized dimensions and characteristics provide convenient mechanical power for industrial use. The largest of electric motors are used for ship propulsion, pipeline compression and pump applications with ratings approaching 100 megawatts. Electric motors are classified by electric power source type, internal construction,
application, type of motion output, and so on.
Generators are motors operated in reverse, whereby it is an electrical machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy. Hence, to understand the origin of the reluctance generator, we must delve into the 125 year history of the reluctance motor and why this technology is anticipated to still dominate the renewable energy market in the 21st century.
In the 1880s, many inventors were trying to develop workable AC motors because of AC’s advantages in long distance high voltage transmission. In 1888, Nikola Tesla presented his paper ‘A New System for Alternating Current Motors and Transformers’ to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) and described three patented two-phase four-stator-pole motor types: one with a four-pole rotor forming a non-self-starting reluctance motor, another with a wound rotor forming a self-starting induction motor, and a third truly synchronous motor with separately excited DC supply to rotor winding.
Switched reluctance motors have a rotor that has no magnets or windings. It is a salient piece of iron. The salient stator has a simple construction.srg pic 1
The design for the reluctance motor was first cited in patent 381,968 May 1, 1888 by the inventor Nikola Tesla. He conceived of an embodiment of a variable inductance motor with no magnets, and where the iron rotor contained no windings. The modern day Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM) remains true to Tesla’s patent, as it contains no brushes or permanent magnets, and the rotor has no electric currents. Instead, torque comes from a slight misalignment of poles on the rotor with poles on the stator. The rotor aligns itself with the magnetic field of the stator,
while the stator field stator windings are sequentially energized to rotate the stator field. The magnetic flux created by the field windings follows the path of least magnetic reluctance, meaning, the flux will flow through poles of the rotor that are closest to the energized poles of the stator, thereby magnetizing those poles of the rotor and creating torque. As the rotor turns, different windings will be energized, keeping the rotor turning.
Clean technology is a contemporary issue, and the international community has accepted the environmental dangers of false economies and the toxification of the environment. Renewable energy is one of the hot topics when it comes to a viable solution, and both wind and solar generation are but a few of the renewable energy power sources that help.
In recent decades, reluctance machines have become an important alternative in various applications in both the industrial and domestic markets. They have good mechanical reliability, high torque-volume ratio, high efficiency, plus low cost. Although the technology is less evangelized as a generator, there are a few studies of its application in the aeronautical industry and in wind based energy applications.
Although the synchronous and induction machines dominate the market of wind energy applications, the reluctance machines are the subject of current investigation and are a valid alternative for this field. Compared with the classical solutions of machines integrated in wind applications, its simplified construction associated with the in existence of permanent magnets or conductors in the rotor results in lower manufacturing costs; in addition both the machine and the power converter are robust. The low inertia of the rotor also allows the machine to respond to rapid variations in the load.
Associated with these characteristics, reluctance machines may now employ electronic control systems that enable rapid changes in machine function such that its performance is optimized (making them Switched Reluctance Machines or ‘SRM’). The structure of reluctance technology is not as stiff as their synchronous counterparts, and due to its flexible control system; is capable of absorbing transient conditions, thus supplying more resilience to the mechanical system.
The machine has an inherent fault tolerance, especially when under an open-coil fault (in the windings) and in the power converter (external faults). Under normal operation, each phase of Switched Reluctance Generator (SRG) is electrically and magnetically independent from others.
Reluctance technology is generally felt to be louder than conventional machines, but this can be remediated with adequate mechanical design, which can do a lot to improve these figures. In addition, all reluctance generators have the following advantages:
-simple construction, low manufacturing cost, low inertia,
-fault tolerance and the ability to operate in a high temperature environment
-present R&D for drives in power source applications that include hybrid electric vehicles, aerospace power systems and wind engines.
The aerospace and automotive applications are characterized by high-speed operation. Constant mechanical power is provided over a wide speed range, while the wind energy applications are characterized by low-speed and high-torque operation.srg pic 2
If 80% efficiency isn’t enough, know that companies are embracing this technology to position themselves in the renewables sector. For example HEVT has developed their switched reluctance motor technologies and are poised to empower the next generation of electric motors, making performance leaps with unmatched reliability and reduced cost volatility due to the use of zero rare earth minerals. They emphasize environmental benefits of having technologies that do not require the use of neodymium magnets in their statement:
“To date, most motors are manufactured in China because rare earth mining and refining capacity is concentrated in China. Mining and refining rare earth metals is a process that causes air, land and water pollution because these metals are typically located in bands of ore that include radioactive thorium. Not only do our technologies enable electric motors free of rare earth metals – thereby reducing environmental and public health impact – but the manufacturing process is disruptively elegant – we can scale production of our motors quickly and globally, creating local jobs in the process. Finally, our motors are highly reliable and efficient, high-performing and less costly: we reduce the initial and lifetime cost of ownership – a critical building block to enabling adoption of renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainable transportation technologies in the U.S. and throughout the world.” – HEVT
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You’ll learn how to build your own efficient reluctance generator.

Finally, by building the generator in this ebook you will be well positioned to participate in ongoing experiments in power regeneration research being undertaken worldwide. You will invariably test many configurations to get a better understanding of the methods other developers are using to recycle excess energy from the environment. There are generator builds that focus solely on the radiant techniques employed in countless Tesla patents, while others are using stored inertia in flywheels, gearing, and pendulums as an intermediary between the motor and generator as a means of an self-contained energy regeneration system (i.e. patents US 20080143302 A1 and ES2119690).srg 4

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Breaking News: QEG Phase 3 Complete

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The long awaited QEG Phase 3 Completion was announced today by Hope Girl of the Fix the World Organization.  In her public statement on Youtube Hope states: “We are happy to announce, that we have cleared the last major hurdle to making the QEG self-sustain while providing additional power.  After months of intensive work, under very difficult conditions, we have just now open sourced the final piece of information that QEG builders around the world will need to finish the machine.”
The last document of information for the QEG can be found on the Fix the World and Be-do.com website under title: “QEG Tuning & Technical Update Parts 1,2 and 3, and QEG Theory of Operation”
This is to be used in conjunction with the third edition manual that was released earlier in June.
This information is a step-by step detailed procedure for tuning the machine to enable the QEG to self-sustain with additional power output.  There are as many as 70 (or more) QEG teams that are located around the world, and many more that wish to build that have been waiting for this final piece of information.  QEG teams that are building were given this document last week prior to the public announcement to give them an opportunity to get started on the completion of their devices.
“The innovations that can be applied to this prototype going forward are numerous” explains Hope.  “In staying with the true co-development nature of this endeavor, we are leaving these further innovations up to the creative expression of the engineers and inventors that are working on the QEG.”
The QEG project started in September of 2013 with the first crowdfunding campaign to build the initial QEG prototype, which is a “Free Energy” device based on a Public Domain design of Nikola Tesla. The QEG is scaled large enough to power an average sized home.
The plans for building the prototype were opensourced on March 25th of 2014 which quickly went viral, and the QEG family traveled to build five different QEG’s in four countries in the later part of 2014. However, further development was needed to complete the project, and over the last year and a half, the QEG family has worked tirelessly in order to produce this final piece.
The Phase 3 Completion Documents along with the Third Edition Manual is open sourced  and given freely given as a gift to the world. The project was made possible through the crowdfunding contributions of 1,212 people over the course of the last two years.
“We have also done tremendous work to set up the proper infrastructure for automated additional learning and distribution through our QEG eBook and a 10 week online video course,” Hope explains.  “In addition, we have been raising funds to get all of this material translated into 10 different languages.” (That campaign can be seen at https://www.gofundme.com/qegrosettastone)
”To the best of our ability, and with great personal difficulty of our own, we have been able to deliver that which we set out to do. With this final piece we are now closing the PUBLIC PROJECT aspect of the QEG. As far as the FTW/QEG family team is concerned, any further innovations for the QEG and its development will be conducted in a privatized manner.”
The Fix the World Organization is now working on a revised business plan and seeking philanthropic benefactors to raise capital needs for a proper lab to further the development of the QEG and its numerous applications, and other technology devices meant to help people in need. The plan is to implement global projects from their headquarters in Morocco.
“We have been applying a wide variety of entrepreneurial strategies in order to provide valuable products to people in order to raise the funds necessary for our greater purpose of a full-on humanitarian projects organization.  We want to be ready for the financial shifts that are occurring in our world, so that we can present a detailed plan of implementation to any of the humanitarian projects funding that we’ve been hearing about through various channels.”
“I can tell you that the last 2 years have been a real challenge for us and we have faced many great pains, losses and betrayals.” Explains Hope, “One thing I am forever grateful for is the obvious protection our family has received.  For the people who believed in us, supported us, and were unwavering in their faith and dedication to this breakthrough: TODAY IS YOUR DAY.  I give thanks to God that we have made it through, and that we still have each other and our integrity. Many people have died doing what we have done, and we are all still alive.”
To learn more about the QEG, please visit the following links:
Free Open Source QEG Manual
QEG Questions and Answers
QEG For Beginners Summary of Links
QEG eBook
The Underbelly of the QEG Project
QEG Consultations and Build Requests
FREE QEG Webinar Register July 20 2015
QEG Rosetta Stone Campaign
Fix the World Start up Campaign
FTW Memberships
FTW Business Plan and Benefactors
FTW/QEG Donations
Contact HopeGirl / FTW / QEG Team

Saturday, July 4, 2015

Sunday, May 3, 2015

Unraveling Nikola Tesla’s Greatest Secret: Radiant Energy

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Unraveling Nikola Tesla’s Greatest Secret: Radiant Energy
by Ken Adachi
If all the great inventions and discoveries of Nikola Tesla, nothing stood out with greater potential benefit to the whole of humanity than his discovery of Radiant Energy in 1889. The series of observations that led to the discovery of Radiant energy initially grew out of experiments that Tesla had conducted in an attempt to duplicate the results that Heinrich Hertz had claimed to achieve in affirming the existence of electromagnetic waves, the discovery of which Hertz announced in 1887. While replicating Hertz’s experiments, Tesla experimented with violently abrupt DC electrical discharges and discovered a new force in the process. Only after conducting exhaustive experimental trials for the next three years, did Tesla announce this stupendous discovery in a paper published in December, 1892, entitled “The Dissipation of Electricity”. Incredibly, most academicians of the day completely missed the mark in understanding the true significance of his paper. Noted scientists such as Sir Oliver Lodge, mistakenly thought that Tesla was referring to high frequency AC electricity in the operation of the Tesla Transformer, a huge blunder that remains to this day in the misnaming and misinterpretation of the Tesla Coil. The transformer that Tesla referred to in the 1892 paper did not operate on magnetic/electric field induction created by alternating currents. It operated in an entirely new domain of physics based on abrupt discharges of electrostatic potentials and the subsequent release of kinetic Radiant Energy from the omnipresent ether. Tesla was now operating under entirely new rules which he referred to as “dynamic” electro-static forces and had, by now, completely abandoned any further interest in the AC waveform. The genesis of the Lodge misunderstanding, however, began a few years earlier with the publication of certainmathematical formulas by a brilliant Scotsman named James Clerk Maxwell.

Maxwell’s Equations

Using mathematical models, James Clerk Maxwell had earlier suggested that two different types of electrical disturbances could possibly exist in Nature. One type was a longitudinal electric wave which required alternating concentrations of densified and rarefied pulsations of electrostatic fields that moved along a single vector (today, we refer to these as standing waves or scalar waves). Maxwell ultimately rejected this idea because he was convinced that this type of wave propagation was impossible to achieve, but his assumption was erroneous and would later portend formidable consequences for Tesla and the world at large.
Maxwell’s second wave postulation was that of a transverse electromagnetic wave that exhibited a rapid alternation of electric fields along a fixed axis that radiated away from its point of origin at the speed of light and was detectable at great distances. Maxwell had more faith in the existence of this type of wave and encouraged experimenters to look in this direction. It was the discovery of this type of wave that Hertz had laid claim to, but Tesla was meticulous and fastidious in replicating Hertz’s experimental parameters and he could not obtain the results claimed by Hertz.
Tesla discovered a fundamental flaw in Hertz’s experiment: Hertz had failed to take into account he presence of air in his experiments. Hertz had mistakenly identified electrostatic inductions or electrified shockwaves as true electromagnetic waves. Tesla was saddened to bring this news to the distinguished academician, but felt scientific honesty was paramount if progress was to be achieved. Tesla visited Hertz in Germany and personally demonstrated the experimental error to him. Hertz agreed with Tesla and had planned to withdraw his claim, but reputations, political agendas, national pride, and above all, powerful financial interests, intervened in that decision and set the stage for a major rift in the ‘accepted’ theories that soon became transformed into the fundamental “laws” of the electric sciences that have held sway in industry and the halls of academia to the present day.
Tesla’s introduction to the phenomena of Radiant Energy began with early observations by linesmen working for Thomas Edison, Tesla’s former employer

DC Anomalies

Before Tesla’s invention of the Polyphase AC generator became the industry standard and overtook Thomas Edison’s use of DC generators, the DC electrical system was the only system available to deliver electricity to America’s homes and factories. Due to the resistance offered by long transmission lines, Edison had to produce very high DC voltages from his generators in order to deliver enough voltage and current to its final destination. He also had to provide additional ‘pumping’ stations along the way to boost the sagging voltage which dwindled from line losses. A curious anomaly occurred in the very first instant of throwing the power switch at the generating station: Purple/blue colored spikes radiated in all directions along the axis of the power lines for just a moment. In addition, a stinging, ray-like shocking sensation was felt by those who stood near the transmission lines. In some cases, when very large DC voltages surged from the generators, the “stinging” sensation was so great that occasionally a blue spike jumped from the line and grounded itself through a workman, killing him in the process.
Tesla realized almost immediately that electrons were not responsible for such a phenomena because The blue spike phenomena ceased as soon as the current stated flowing in the lines. Something else was happening just before the electrons had a chance to move along the wire. At the time, no one seemed to be very interested in discovering why these dramatic elevations in static electrical potential were taking place, but rather, engineering design efforts were focused on eliminating and quenching this strange anomaly which was considered by everyone to be a nuisance-except Tesla. Tesla viewed it as a powerful, yet unknown form of energy which needed to be understood and harnessed if possible. The phenomena only exhibited itself in the first moment of switch closure, before the electrons could begin moving. There seemed to be a “bunching” or  “choking” effect at play, but only briefly. Once the electrons began their movement within the wire, all would return to normal. What was this strange energy that was trying to liberate itself so forcefully at the moment of switch closure? .

Tesla, Genius Out of Time

In the later quarter of the 19th century, Tesla was alone in his opposition to the fundamental views of the nature of electrical forces as described by three of the biggest names in electric science: James Clerk Maxwell, Herman Von Helmholtz, and Heinrich Hertz. Tesla possessed a broader vision of the cosmos because his keen sense of awareness and especially his natural intuitive insights gave him a deeper understanding of the role that the ether (or aether) played in the  manifestations of all electrical phenomena while his contemporaries focused their attention exclusively on the electromagnetic component (assuming that no other component could be involved). This lack of etheric insight by his contemporaries (with the exception of Sir William Crookes)  and the heated controversy that the mere mention of the ether had engendered was to cause Tesla ridicule and sarcasm from men of inferior intellect for decades. The ether controversy largely dissipated in the academic arena after the publication of Eienstein’s Theory of Relativity (1905) and the Michaelson-Morley Experiment which essentially declared that the ether ‘theory’ was dead, but Tesla’s insights and deductions concerning the role of the ether were correct all along.
The ether existed then and it exists now, despite the lock step denials by mainstream science, past or present. Rudolf Steiner, another man of genius, affirmed that the ether was composed of four fractions which he described as 1) the Light Ether, 2) the Warmth Ether, 3) the Chemical Ether, and 4) the Life Ether, a combination of the first three. Tesla’s New York and Colorado experiments confirmed for him that Radiant energy was bound up within the elusive ether, but could be made manifest by the creation of an abrupt disruption in the equilibrium of the ether fractions using one way, high magnitude pulses of short duration.
This was the key that unlocked Radiant Energy.

“See the excitement coming!”

These were the words that Tesla used at the end of his pivotal 1892 December lecture, “The Dissipation of Electricity”. He was brimming over with buoyancy and optimism for the future  In the 1890’s, Tesla conducted a large number of experiments which confirmed his theory and refined his understanding of the special conditions required for Radiant energy to express itself. He later expanded his New York work with the large scale experimental trials conducted at Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1899. Tesla, the humanitarian, wanted more than anything to share this enormous discovery with his fellow man. Tesla spoke of practical applications of radiant energy that were so wide reaching that they could have created a profound and immense leap into the future for all of mankind in  practically every sector of daily life:
Unlimited electricity could be made available anywhere and at any time, by merely pushing a rod into the ground and turning on the electrical appliance. Homes, farms, offices, factories, villages, libraries, museums, street lights, etc., could have all their lighting needs met by merely hanging ordinary light bulbs or fluorescent tubes anywhere desired- without the need for wiring -and produce brilliant white light 24 hours a day. Motor energy for any imagined use such as  industrial applications, transportation, tractors, trucks, trains, boats, automobiles, air ships or planes could be powered freely-anywhere on the planet from a single Magnifying Transmitter. This new form of energy even had the ability to elevate human consciousness to levels of vastly improved comprehension and mental clarity. Undreamed of therapeutic applications to improve human health and to eliminate disease conditions could have been achieved fully 100 years ago had Tesla been allowed to complete his commercial development of Radiant Energy. But powerful barons of industry, chiefly in the person of John Pierpont Morgan, colluded to deny him the financial backing he needed and in doing so, effectively denied mankind one of Nature’s most abundant and inexhaustible gifts of free energy.

The Magnifying Transmitter

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The closest Tesla came to a world wide industrial application of his Radiant Energy dream was the construction of his huge Magnifying Transmitter at Shoreham, Long Island, a site which he named Wardenclyffe. Following his return to New York City from Colorado Springs in 1899, Tesla was jubilant and full of enthusiasm to implement his plan for the commercial application of Radiant energy. He turned to JP Morgan for a substantial portion of the funding to finance the huge project at Wardenclyffe. Morgan was chiefly concerned with turning a profit from overseas radio transmissions since Marconi was fast locking up the market and Morgan, ever the aggressor, wanted a share of the market. When Tesla told him that the transmitter could transmit “intelligence” to the world, Morgan assumed that he meant ordinary radio communications, but Tesla was not referring to ordinary radio transmissions. He was talking about something much bigger, but avoided revealing all to Morgan during this early phase of the Wardenclyffe project. Some considerable time later, Tesla eventually felt compelled  to tell Morgan the larger possibilities offered by the Magnifying Transmitter when he needed more funding to complete the project. Tesla thought that Morgan would be overwhelmed by his expanded explanation of the true capacities of the transmitter and would be anxious to complete the work, but Tesla’s assumption had backfired and Morgan refused to lay out any more money for the transmitter. Sadly, the enormous benefits that could have been made available to society by Tesla’s Magnifying Transmitter project, died then and there.

Morgan & Westinghouse

Morgan had already orchestrated circumstances in Tesla’s life in order to force Tesla to be dependent on him for financial backing. During an earlier period, when Tesla himself had millions from his Polyphase AC generator royalty payments and other earnings, Morgan wanted to woo Tesla with a deal that effectively gave Morgan majority control over his patent rights and projects, but Tesla turned him down, telling Morgan that he had enough money of his own to fund his projects.  While returning to his hotel from that very meeting with Morgan, however, Tesla was told that his laboratory had been burned to the ground. It represented a tremendous loss to Tesla and it shook him deeply. Everyone, of course, felt convinced that Morgan was behind the arson. In order to save face, Morgan was embarrassed by Tesla into putting up the money to pay for the rebuilding of a new lab as an act of “philanthropy”. From that time forward, however, other financial backers were not to be found. Morgan was powerful enough to black list Tesla among the Eastern Establishment elites that previously had hobnobbed and feted with Tesla as if he was one of their own. Black listing and ostracization by officialdom and financiers lifted somewhat after Morgan’s death, but generally continued to haunt Tesla for the rest of his life.
Before the turn of the century, Tesla also willingly gave up millions, perhaps billions, in royalty earnings to George Westinghouse in an unprecedented act of friendship. Westinghouse had believed in the superiority of Tesla’s AC system and provided the money to build Tesla’s big AC  generators at Niagra Falls, NY. Tesla was paid millions up front for his patents, but was also due to receive royalty earnings for every kilowatt of power produced. When Westinghouse ran into financial difficulties at a later date, Tesla tore up his royalty contract in order to save Westinghouse from financial ruin. Had he not done that, Tesla would have had enough money from royalties to keep him ensconced in great wealth for the rest of his life.
The story is frequently told that when Morgan found out from Tesla that the true purpose of the Wardenclyffe transmitter was to provide free electricity to the world, he abruptly pulled the funding. That’s not completely accurate. The economic conditions were recessionary at the time and the stock market had taken a considerable dip that year. Morgan wasn’t interested in risking any more capital in perilous times on a project he couldn’t fully fathom and wasn’t completely convinced of. Tesla held land ownership of the Wardenclyffe site and tower, but no further work was done after 1910. In 1914, Tesla was deeply in debt and signed over the deed of Wardenclyffe Station to pay off years of back rent due to the owners of the New Yorker Hotel where he was living (he occupied two penthouse suites in the hotel). In 1917, the hotel owners had the tower demolished and its parts sold for salvage. Despite the loss of Wardenclyffe, Tesla continued to refine his understanding of Radiant Energy and miniaturize the equipment needed to produce it. He eventually was able to reduce the equipment down to the size of a suit case.

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Tesla Announces The Release Of A Battery That Can Power Your Home!

The wait is over! On April 30th, at its design studio in Hawthorne, California, Tesla Motors Inc. will unveil its new product line, and it’s not a car.  In an email sent out to investors and analysts on Tuesday, it was reported that Tesla would be announcing a home battery and utility-scale battery.
Khobi Brooklyn, a Tesla spokeswoman, said thatwe’ll share more information next week.”
We had gotten rumor of this new battery back in February when Elon Musk discussed it during an earnings call, but no additional details were made available at that time.  In just under a week, we will finally be able get those details. How much will they cost? What hardware will be used and supported? Will these build upon the concepts in existing home batteries? Are they rechargeable? If not are they recyclable?
Tesla announced last September its plans to build a new Gigafactory in Reno, Nevada, 62 million has been spent so far. When all is said and done an estimated $5 billion will be spent on this project. Tesla plans to begin building lithium-ion batteries at this facility in 2017.  The lithium-ion battery technology is being positioned to be the front runner in emerging energy storage that also provides supplementary electricity.  Could this technology ultimately threaten our traditional electric grid? These new batteries when combined with the rapidly expanding residential solar market present exciting new opportunity’s for off the grid living.
Tesla Gigafactory Production
Tesla has teamed up with SolarCity, a company chaired by Musk and ran by his cousin Lyndon Rive.  Founded in 2006, the company has over 160,000 customers and controls almost 40% of the residential market.  Solarcity installs panels for both commercial and residential applications and leases them for less than what you pay on your energy bill, and they sell surplus energy back to local utility’s.  This model has proven to be extremely successful for SolarCity. They have begun installing Tesla batteries mostly in commercial buildings at this time.  The batteries allow them to store excess energy for use during peak hours.  This has shown to shave off 20-30 percent of energy bills.  Solar City is currently running a pilot program with around 500 homes in California.  The project is using 10-killowatt-hour battery packs that supply homes with about 2 days of power in the event of an outage.
Solar Storage Market size
Electric cars, space exploration, low-cost wireless internet for anyone, and now home batteries.  Tesla Motors Inc has shown us that they are not just car makers, it begs to question what does Tesla have in store for the future?
Source: http://www.trueactivist.com/tesla-announces-the-release-of-a-battery-that-can-power-your-home/