Re: Losses and work, was An intersting idea for ballast.

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Original poster: "Michael H Nolley by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <nolleym-at-willamette.edu>

> > However, one thing I always
> >  find ironic about the attempt to make a less lossy Tesla Coil is the fact
> >  that the Tesla Coil is not
> >  actually doing any work.  Its just making sparks.
> >              --Mike
> >
>
> Mike,
>
> I don't see any irony here.  Heating and ionizing air to form
> sparks is the work.  Less losses results in longer sparks for a
> given input power which is what most of us want I think.
>
> John Freau

    True.  I guess I wasn't taking into consideration the fact that for
every goal,
however apparently arbitrary (e.g. making long sparks) there is a legitimate
science directed towards the fulfillment of that goal.

        --Mike