In reply to William Beaty's message of Wed, 9 May 2007 14:25:28 -0700 (PDT): Hi, [snip] >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.
This may not have been necessary. Since he was creating a resonance in the Earth-ionosphere cavity anyway, he may have discovered that the resonance was naturally fed by the energy already stored there. IOW, the cavity resonated at the natural frequency, and provided energy at that frequency to a resonant load (an electric motor would run nicely at the Schumann resonance frequency :- 400-500 rpm). Regards, Robin van Spaandonk The shrub is a plant.
