The Tesla Files Season 1, Episodes 1, 2 and 3.

With that Discovery Channel scam of Cameron Prince, Aron Koscho and Jack Murphy still fresh in my memory it certainly was refreshing to see the work of Marc Seifer, Timothy Eaton, Travis Taylor and Jason Stapleton!

(in the last seconds of Ep. 3 you’ll see Marc browsing through a file that appears to describe a weapon. Closer examination reveals that it concerns a rail gun, which has nothing to do with Tesla’s work, other than that it also uses electricity. LOL)

Quality info
Not that I would have expected otherwise! Marc Seifer has a PhD in psychology and has studied the life and person of Nikola Tesla for decades. He has been a good source of information in numerous other documentaries about Tesla.
Timothy Eaton of the Tesla Science Foundation also has quite a good knowledge of Tesla. Unfortunately they both do not have a solid technical background.
I am not saying this to pick on them, I know them both and they both would readily admit their lack of technical understanding.
That is where Travis Taylor comes in. Travis has a Phd in astrophysics which provides the technical backbone for this project. It is a pity however that Travis has little Tesla knowledge and Marc and Tim can not talk Tesla-tech-stuff with Travis to bring him up to speed.
Jason Stapleton is investigative journalist and I assume he is hired for his investigation skills.

So the crew clearly has a problem when it comes to understanding Tesla’s work and this becomes painfully clear when they try to explain and demonstrate Tesla’s work. But that is really the only negative point I can make about the first 3 episodes (I haven’t seen the 4th, yet).

The good things about this documentary are (IMHO):

• The way they portray the Tesla Museum in Beograd. There is a superficial helpfulness but when you have a real or additional question the doors are slammed in your face. That matches my experience perfectly.
• The information (the non-tech stuff) is very good and I even got to see a number of things I had not seen before such as the inside of the New Yorker Hotel, including Tesla’s room (which was much smaller than I expected), the underground facilities of that hotel and a 3D model of whatever is below the location where once the Wardenclyffe Tower stood. (although I have some doubt concerning how this model was made)
• The first page of the contract that Tesla signed with Amtorg Trading Corporation in which Tesla sold the “Death Ray” to Russia, was shown. I have reconstructed its text here (two words I could not decipher):

I would rate this documentary (so far) at a 7 out of 10. Episode 3 raised this number from a 6 to a 7.

So, having said that, let’s clear up the technical mistakes made in the first 2 episodes.

They try to recreate Tesla’s wireless power transmission and this is how they proposed to do it:

This only works with very small amounts of power, very powerful transmitters and even then only at small distances. Tesla was working on sending power in industrial quantities worldwide. With this system that is hopeless.
A way to increase the performance is to add something of capacitance to the wire that acts as antenna. This is actually what they ended up doing, using their own body as capacitance:

Still, this will not do much more than a small lightbulb near the transmitter.
Another way to increase its effectiveness is as follows:

They actually tried something like this but failed to recognize that the distance between the electrodes (including the length of the connecting wires) has to be half a wave length. That way when one electrode picks up a maximum, the other picks up a minimum, and thus you have a voltage difference that you can use.

Another way again, is to use a second – receiver – coil that is tuned at the same frequency as the sender. That way an actual connection can be established in the so called “near field”. The problem here is that drawing power from the receiver will detune it and thus the sender needs to constantly re-adjust its frequency depending on the power drawn. This is one of the things that makes this method impractical.

But this is closest that they came to Tesla’s actual plan of wireless power transmission.
You need to solve this tuning issue (which can be done) and you need to get out of the “near field” to enable worldwide distribution. This last thing can be accomplished by using the Earth’s resonance frequency (NOT the Schumann frequency, which is something entirely different!!).
That way you can actually send industrial amounts worldwide.
But these people in this video still have a long way to go. Also I don’t think that a solid state Tesla coil can pull that off.

I did a video on Earth resonance, which can be seen here
And now I have oscilloscope traces showing the echo of a pulse that travelled to the other end of the Earth and came back in 84.8 ms exactly as Tesla said.
Pulse:

Echo:

I am looking forward to the final episode (4) of this season and hope there will be more seasons to come...