Why Wardenclyffe Foundation?

Wardenclyffe Tower

It is a bit of an inside joke: The fictional Wardenclyffe Foundation Archive supplied all of the chapter heading quotes in my novel Schrodinger's Goat. The quotes were by various characters in the book, including actual quotes by Nicola Tesla and Mark Twain.

So why Wardenclyffe? Wardenclyffe Tower was Tesla's epic folly (perhaps). Its was a mysterious device meant to transmit transatlantic wireless communications -- this was conceived in 1898, mind you. But more than that, it was intended to transmit energy in the same fashion. And more than that, Tesla even hinted that he could harvest free energy, and then transmit it freely.

"Free" was the Tower's undoing. His investors saw no way to make money from the free transmission of energy and pulled out. There's a novel in there somewhere. Not mine... Mine takes place before all this. But I'm tempted. Oh yes. Very tempted.

So Wardenclyffe is/was a grand optimistic vision that might have changed the world much for the better.

If I ever set up my own publishing house (Yes, I might), it will bear the emblem of Wardenclyffe Tower. Grandiose visions are the only ones worth having.