On Sat, 12 May 2007, Robin van Spaandonk wrote: > Everything I've read on Tesla
Please point out where Tesla gives all the details behind this diagram: http://amasci.com/graphics/tes_radpat3.gif You won't find any. My speculations are based on the assumption that Tesla was very secretive during his Colorado Springs period, so we have to look for clues, rather than just assuming that Tesla put his key secrets in articles for competitors to take. > suggests that he achieved long distance energy > transmission by resonating the Earth. It's been tested and doesn't work. Something is missing. The scientific community assumes that Tesla was crazy, and his scheme couldn't work in theory. I on the other hand assume that Tesla was paranoid follwing the Marconi stuff, and so held back some key bits of technology. Have you read about the large glass spheres associated with the Wardenclyffe tower? Or the "instruments" Tesla was planning on installing in the top? He only drops hints to the reporters, but doesn't give details. The missing pieces of the puzzle could be the large single-electrode tubes described in Colorado Springs Notes. What was their purpose? Why was Tesla trying to operate these "x-ray tubes" at extreme high power, while trying to use metal toroid shields to solve the problem of their destruction by glass perforation? In hindsight there is a simple possibility: the tubes provided seeds in the form of relativistic electrons, and allowed the creation of sparks KMs long. With such sparks to produce regions of conductive plasma it becomes possible to create an immensely tall "virtual antenna tower." Without such a tower, Tesla coils don't emit much energy. (If they did, the FCC would ban them!) > Think of it as a one wire transmission > line, terminated by resonant cavities where the Earth itself is the > transmission > line. Go see my article http://amasci.com/tesla/tmistk.html > In short he used the ground as a conductor, so his energy transmission > was not wireless, it was a "wired" transmission, which explains why it > was reasonably efficient. > > The towers were simply large "doorknob" capacitors which provided the > capacitance in the tank circuit on the transmitting end. They had to be on > towers because the voltage was so high, and he wanted to avoid a short to > ground > (around the generator that stood on the transmitting end between the resonant > cavity and the ground connection into which the power was fed). Hobbyists have built tens of large TCs (perhaps hundreds), and nobody has duplicated any of Tesla's long distance wireless transmission claims. Why? I say it's because of a key element that Tesla patented separately but carefully avoided discussing. (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (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
