Preserving Teslas Wardenclyf

[David Morris]

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/03/preserving-teslas-wardenclyf.html

Spider Robinson writes in with an account of a visit to Wardenclyffe,
Nikola Tesla's facility at Shoreham, NY, near the north shore of Long
Island: "I stood, gobsmacked, within a couple of hundred meters of the
base of the tower with which, some of us believe, Tesla accidentally
caused the Tunguska Event. The same tower whose admitted purpose was
to beam free electricity to the entire world. I wanted, badly, to get
closer, to climb the barbed wire fence (at 63!) and stand at the base
of that tower of power. But I didn't dare. Today it's a hazardous
waste Superfund Cleanup Site, thanks to its most recent owners
Peerless Photo Products and the Agfa Corporation, who both polluted it
with photographic chemicals. A group called Tesla Wardenclyffe Project
(and I've heard there are other groups, too) is trying to honour and
preserve Tesla's memory--get the site cleaned up, get it declared a
historical landmark, somehow find the money to buy it, maybe turn it
into a Tesla museum and scientific tourist attraction--and they could
use a shout-out."