Tesla Tech
| Founder | Steven R Elswick |
|---|---|
| Type | Privately held company; conference organizer and publisher |
| Purpose | Supporting and encouraging independent inventors through publications and conferences |
| Headquarters | Queen Valley, Arizona, United States |
Publisher and conference organizer | Steven R Elswick |
| Publication | ExtraOrdinary Technology (later ExtraOrdinary Science & Technology) |
| Website | www.teslatech.info |
TeslaTech (also written Tesla Tech, and trading as TeslaTech, LLC) is an American organization founded by the electrical engineer Steven R Elswick that is dedicated to the study, publication and demonstration of Tesla technology and related unconventional science. It states its mission as supporting and encouraging independent inventors through its publications and its conferences, and it presents itself as an outlet for research that its participants regard as neglected or actively suppressed by mainstream institutions. Its two principal activities are the annual ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference, held for most of its run in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the magazine ExtraOrdinary Technology.
Background and founding
TeslaTech grew directly out of two earlier ventures led by Elswick.
The first was the International Tesla Society, established in the early 1980s in Colorado Springs by Dale Pond, Toby Grotz and Elswick. The Society held its first International Tesla Symposium in 1984, marking the centennial of Nikola Tesla's arrival in the United States, and continued to hold symposia in even-numbered years through 1998; from 1989 it also ran the more informal, engineering-oriented Extraordinary Science conferences in odd-numbered years. Elswick served as an officer and director of the Society from 1984 to 1995, edited the symposium proceedings, and edited and produced its periodicals, including Tesla magazine and Extraordinary Science magazine. He was named the Society's Man of the Year in 1990. The International Tesla Society filed for bankruptcy late in 1998 following internal disputes.
The second was Exotic Research, under which Elswick published the Exotic Research Report and organized the Exotic Research Conferences around the turn of the millennium; TeslaTech's own archive retains complete conference sets from 2000 and 2001 alongside back issues of the report.
TeslaTech was formed to carry this work forward. Writing in ExtraOrdinary Technology in early 2005, Elswick described the organization as championing "radical new technologies that defy many of the precepts held sacred by orthodox physics," and framed its purpose as giving independent researchers — typically working with little or no institutional funding — a platform on which to publish and demonstrate their results. The organization has long been associated with Elswick's base at Queen Valley, Arizona; more recently its published order and mailing address has been in Cal-Nev-Ari, Nevada.
The ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference
The mainstay of the organization is its annual ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference, organized by Elswick.
The first conference under that name was held in 2004, from 29 July to 1 August, and unusually was not held in a hotel: it took place at the Miller Free Enterprise Center on the Salt Lake Community College campus in Sandy, Utah. Later editions settled in Albuquerque, New Mexico, latterly at the Crowne Plaza Albuquerque, and the conference is now normally held there over five days in early or mid August. The 2025 conference ran 6–10 August in Albuquerque, and the 2026 conference was scheduled for 12–16 August at the same venue. TeslaTech bills the 2026 event as the 33rd annual conference — a count that reaches back through the Exotic Research and International Tesla Society series rather than to the 2004 ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference alone, and the organization describes the lineage as the longest-running conference of its kind.
A typical programme runs several parallel tracks over five days; the 2026 programme was organized into six tracks — Health, AntiGravity, Water, Energy, Concepts and Physics — with more than thirty presenters, and offered livestream as well as in-person attendance. The conference places heavy emphasis on working hardware and on direct contact between attendees and inventors, with demonstrations and an exhibit hall alongside the talks, and it has historically been accompanied by a vendor expo. Michael D Riversong, who had served as master of ceremonies for the International Tesla Society conferences from 1984 to 1998, has emceed every ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference since the first one in 2004.
Recordings of the conference presentations are sold and, in part, published on the organization's YouTube channel, and programme booklets for many years are archived on the TeslaTech site.
ExtraOrdinary Technology magazine
ExtraOrdinary Technology is the organization's periodical, published for TeslaTech members and others interested in its subject matter, with Elswick as publisher and editor. It carries the strapline "Bridging the Gap... Between Conventional ... and ExtraOrdinary!" Issues appear in quarterly volumes — Volume 3, Number 1, for example, covers January/February/March 2005 — and the magazine was offered in the mid-2000s as a benefit of a US$30 annual membership. In later years the title has also appeared as ExtraOrdinary Science & Technology, reflecting its descent from the International Tesla Society's earlier Extraordinary Science.
The magazine publishes construction articles, experimental reports, theory papers and conference write-ups across the organization's full subject range, and functions as a de facto journal of record for the conference community. Back issues, with tables of contents, are hosted on the TeslaTech website.
Subject range
TeslaTech's conferences and magazine cover a consistent set of themes drawn from the New Energy and Tesla-research communities. Contributors generally hold that conventional electrical theory and orthodox physics describe only part of the available phenomena, and much of the material concerns claimed effects — over-unity energy output, antigravity or gravity modification, and energetic healing — which are asserted by their proponents and are not accepted by mainstream physics or medicine. The organization presents this work on its contributors' own terms.
The recurring subjects include:
- Tesla technology, including Tesla coils and Tesla turbines
- Magnetic motors and magnetic propulsion
- Zero-point energy and vacuum-energy devices
- Energy waving devices
- Cosmic and radiant energy
- Brown's gas and HHO
- Low-temperature plasma
- GEET (fuel-reformation) systems
- Electrogravitation and antigravity
- Cold fusion and "extreme physics"
- Water technologies
- Electro-medicine and magnetic healing
Connections with this wiki's community
A number of researchers documented on this wiki have been associated with TeslaTech, its conferences, or its predecessor organizations:
- Steven R Elswick — founder of TeslaTech, publisher and editor of ExtraOrdinary Technology, and organizer of the conference
- Michael D Riversong — master of ceremonies at every ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference since 2004, and at the International Tesla Society conferences before that
- Toby Grotz — co-founder of the International Tesla Society and a long-standing figure in Tesla and wireless-power research
- Eric P Dollard — known for reproducing Tesla's radiant-energy and wireless-transmission experiments, a recurring name in this research community
- Peter Graneau — electrodynamics and water-arc-explosion researcher active in the same New Energy milieu
Links
- http://www.teslatech.info - Official homepage
- Extraordinary Technology Back issues