Hey, I'm no Edison worshipper either.
I'd accept as plausible that Edison may have been able to fabricate outlandish claims that seem to have originated from Tesla in order to discredit him (or his memory), but if it really was Tesla claiming the things he appears to have done then he was somewhere between wrong and flat-out nuts at some stages of his life.
I don't even care is Tesla ripped off other people's ideas or inventions. If he developed them from impractical theories or prototypes into commercially viable products then he was a damn good engineer. However, credit where it is due and no more. If one man working out of a hotel room claims to have created a complete theory of gravity and a death ray and >80 years later the world's best minds have neither find any evidence of his having done so, nor managed to produce an equivalent, despite monstrous advantages in technology, resources and knowledge, then it becomes incredible unlikely the original claim was true. Just look at Fermat's Final Theorem. We just arbitrarily decide that at some point something is unlikely enough to be considered impossible.
I'd accept as plausible that Edison may have been able to fabricate outlandish claims that seem to have originated from Tesla in order to discredit him (or his memory), but if it really was Tesla claiming the things he appears to have done then he was somewhere between wrong and flat-out nuts at some stages of his life.
I don't even care is Tesla ripped off other people's ideas or inventions. If he developed them from impractical theories or prototypes into commercially viable products then he was a damn good engineer. However, credit where it is due and no more. If one man working out of a hotel room claims to have created a complete theory of gravity and a death ray and >80 years later the world's best minds have neither find any evidence of his having done so, nor managed to produce an equivalent, despite monstrous advantages in technology, resources and knowledge, then it becomes incredible unlikely the original claim was true. Just look at Fermat's Final Theorem. We just arbitrarily decide that at some point something is unlikely enough to be considered impossible.