On Wed, 9 May 2007, William Beaty wrote: Oops, a line got deleted:
> ionosphere is the power supply, the Runaway Breakdown spark is like a > FET switch, and the Tesla coil is the resonator. But how much energy > could be extracted in this way? It might be feeble. However, if the > POWER BEING RECEIVED FROM THE IONOSPHERIC CAPACITOR EXCEEDED > that needed to drive the Tesla coil, then the Tesla coil secondary would > begin to self-oscillate, and it would continue to do so even if the > primary coil was entirely removed. Also, here's something odd: Wardenclyffe as an FE device: "No instruments have been installed as yet in the transmitter, nor has Mr. Tesla vouchsafed any description of what they will be like. But in his article he announces that he will transmit from the tower an electric wave of a total maximum activity of ten million horse power. This, he says, will be possible with a plant of but 100 horse power, by the use of a magnifying transmitter of his own invention and certain artifices which he promises to make known in due course." "Cloudborn Electric WaveletsTo Encircle the Globe" New York Times, 27 March 1904. If "certain artifices" were large vacuum globes creating an upwards- directed beam, then Wardenclyffe was not so much a 'transmitter' but instead was more like a 'giant FET' which periodically shorts out the Earth/ionosphere voltage, chopping it at high frequency to convert its natural DC into an AC output. (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 425-222-5066 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
