Nikola Tesla is my hero!

[Klaus]

I was just reading in "The Economist" about a return to using Tesla's design for AC motors. I think if it weren't for the disinformation campaign of Thomas Edison and General Electric, more schools would be named for him rather than Edison.

I often wonder what Tesla would have produced, if he had not torn up his contract with Westinghouse, and were he funded as well as his ex-boss Edison.

I'm not sure what you mean by "return to". Induction motors are used all over the place. Most stationary woodworking tools run on them ("benchtop" tools mostly use universal motors). Most industrial electric motors are induction (big machines driven by 3-phase motors). Even the whirling disc in your electric meter is an induction motor.

The trend towards permanent magnet motors has been primarily because they are smaller and lighter. The main reason benchtop woodworking tools don't use induction motors is because they're heavy.