Re: Fwd: Primary and copper (fwd)

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• Subject: Re: Fwd: Primary and copper (fwd)
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• Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 14:21:09 -0700 (MST)
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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 14:52:51 -0500
From: Keith Nagel <knagel-at-cnct-dot-com>
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Primary and copper (fwd)

Great idea, but you'd have to pay that Tesla guy a royalty;
he patented this idea somewhere around the turn of the century

:^)

KPN

>As an off the wall aside, if you were to cool the tubing with dry ice or
>liquid nitrogen, the conductivity increases by a substantial amount (3
>times for LN2?), which would greatly reduce resistive losses in the
>primary, increasing the output of the coil (for a given input power). You
>could also cool the secondary, as well. Now wouldn't that look interesting,
>the fog from the LN2 boiloff combined with the sparks from the top?

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