RE: SSTC As a transmitter.

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Original poster: "John H. Couture by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <couturejh-at-mgte-dot-com>


Paul -

It is my understasnding that Tesla was trying to mimic the earth's
electrical system of which lightning is a part. This system does not use
hertzian waves and Tesla made a point of this fact. This system uses
currents that flow thru the ionosphere as one conductor and the earth as the
other. These two conductors are connected by currents flowing thru the
atmosphere during fair weather and by lightning strikes during storms.

The lightning strikes are a fantastic automatic voltage control method of
keeping the earth to ionosphere voltage at a certain level. When the voltage
is too high there are more lightning strikes and vise versa. Tesla said he
had worked out the details but never revealed what these details were.

John Couture

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Subject: Re: SSTC As a transmitter.


Original poster: "Paul Nicholson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<paul-at-abelian.demon.co.uk>

Ed wrote:
> since he proposed to transmit power by "non hertzian"

Was that idea down to Tesla?  I'd always just assumed that
particular bit of nonsense had been pinned on him by subsequent
generations of cranks.  Was Tesla claiming that some other
fundamental mechanism was at work here?  If so he must have been
further from reality than I thought.

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