Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower - no CC

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Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was an important inventor, most known for his work on alternating current.
One of Tesla’s projects, was the tower at his Wardenclyffe facility. This project was the beginning of the “World Wireless System,” which Tesla explained to make “possible not only the instantaneous and precise wireless transmission of any kind of signals, messages or characters, to all parts of the world, but also the inter-connection of the existing telegraph, telephone, and other signal stations without any change in their present equipment”. Had his work been completed, Tesla could possibly have provided everyone with free clean energy. This goal made finding funding for his project difficult, and as a result, the tower was never completed.
This mod employs a counterfactual historical perspective by posing a 'What-if?' type question: "What if Wardenclyffe had been fully operational?" The infrastructure and politics of energy are a genuine obstacle towards the development of renewable energy sources. Exploring Wardenclyffe as an alternative demonetized wireless and meterless system helps us to question the ways in which we conceive of our current electrical grid. It rejects capitalism’s desire for infinite profit and highlights that we need to look at the infrastructure of energy itself when considering sustainable alternatives.
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Included in this mod are:
- A player home made to look like the facility (30x20)
- A sim that roughly looks and acts like Nikola Tesla
- A script mod that reduces all energy costs to 0
Several content packs have been used to provide clothing and interior decorations, but this mod can be used without them.
This mod has been created as part of a research master project. For more background, analysis, and design choices, see:
Tara Huisman. Greening the System: Exploring the Impact of Ecocritical Modding of The Sims 4 on our Sustainable Imaginaries. Master’s Thesis. Utrecht University. 2022. UU Theses Repository (10347).
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Sources:
Samuel McCready. “Playing the Past and Alternative Futures: Counterfactual History in Fallout 4.” Loading 12, no 20 (2019).
Sean Cubitt. “Ecomedia Futures.” International Journal of Media and Culture Politics 10, no. 2 (June 2014).
Nikola Tesla. My Inventions and Other Writings. New York: Penguin Books, 2011.
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Note from the Creator:
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Install Instructions
1. Download: Click the File tab to see the download link. Click the link to save the .rar or .zip file(s) to your computer.
Read the upload description for installation instructions. If nothing else is specified, do the following:
2. Extract: Use WinRAR (Windows) to extract the .package file(s) (if included, ts4script as well) from the .rar or .zip file(s).
3. Cut and paste the .package file(s) (if included, ts4script as well) into your Mods folder
- Windows XP: Documents and Settings\(Current User Account)\My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Mods\
- Windows Vista/7/8/8.1: Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Mods\
Need more information?
- Anyone can use both .rar and .zip files easily! On Windows, use WinRAR.
- If you don't have a Mods folder, just make one.
- Mod still not working? Make sure you have script mods enabled
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Updated: 1st Jun 2023 at 11:55 AM
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About Me
The climate crisis affects the entire planet. This human-caused crisis is irreversible on a timescale of a single lifetime, and will still worsen. Combatting this crisis will require social change driven by new socialtechnological imaginaries. Not only do we need to develop new societal goals, we need to design new societal, economic, and cultural structures. The climate crisis arose from a network of interwoven issues from processes such as capitalism, classism, and colonialism. Fighting the climate crisis is thus inherently a political act.
Video games can help facilitate combatting this crisis through the communication (meta)practices they make possible. They help us question the way we live, and then let us propose new alternatives. Using this angle, The Sims can be an ecocritical tool to consider new imaginaries.
Tara
Open to requests!
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Sources:
Ghosh, Amitav. “Amitav Ghosh: where is the fiction about climate change?” The Guardian, October 28, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/28/amitav-ghosh-where-is-the-fiction-about-climate-change-.
López, Antonio. Ecomedia Literacy: Integrating Ecology into Media Education (New York, London: Routledge,
2021).
Huber, Matt T. “Ecological Politics for the Working Class,” Catalyst 3, no. 1 (Spring 2019). https://catalystjournal.com/2019/07/ecological-politics-for-the-working-class.
Werning, Stefan. “Understanding and Communicating the Climate Crisis through Ecomodding.” Communication +1 8, no. 1 (October 2021).
NASA. “The Effects of Climate Change.” Accessed January 11, 2022, https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/.