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I still think my favorite development in the Tesla saga was when a cartoonist (The Oatmeal) got the Internet and then Elon Musk to help him save Wardenclyff from the dozers.

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I live only a few miles from the site and drive past it regularly. It's been interesting to watch the progress from an abandoned and overgrown property entirely unrecognizable as the site of anything of interest morphing into a recognition of Tesla. It's not there yet, but it's a work n progress and definitely easy to see the progress.

It was a nice result, but I think the one-sided view that comic painted of Tesla as a misunderstood saint and of Edison as an evil thief (and that the internet largely went along with) is far removed from reality.

It's easier to put a narrative together if you choose to view the world in black and white.

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