Re: SSTC As a transmitter.

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Original poster: "boris petkovic by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <petkovic7-at-yahoo-dot-com>


> 
> 	If he HAD worked out the details he would have
> discovered that the
> maximum voltage difference between the ionosphere
> and ground is only of
> the order of 400 kV, very much less than the 25 MV
> he talks about in his
> writings.  Even if the ionosphere were the almost
> perfect conductor he
> envisioned (of course it isn't, as known from direct
> measurements) the
> lightning bolts would create a low-resistance path
> to ground which would
> have absorbed most of the power he proposed to
> transmit, illustrating
> yet another fallacy in his scheme.
> 
> Ed
> 
Ed,
I don't think he had worked all the details of his
scheme out.Even in 1920's ,when much more was known of
EM theory than in early 1900's ,he wasn't giving up of
his ideas.Seems that his ideas were not just exploring
power transmission utilazing natural media resonances
(as he used to call them),but changing climate
conditions in a certain range of system  location.
Direct witness who was aware of Tesla's work in that
field was dr.Milan Vidmar,his friend (and latter chief
of Yugoslav Energy department in post second World War
era.)They used to meet in 20's.
John Couture is right to some degree when he said
Tesla wanted to use some properties of natural circuit
(but which ones?).Same was explained to Vidmar by
Tesla himself,but Tesla admited he hadn't full control
yet.To get information and see possibilities he had to
perform large scale experiment.For a large scale
experiment he had to raise (equally) large sum of
money .
His statements of some 10 000 continious horse power
needed ( 7 MW+!) for tower like Long Island one were
nightmare money wise for Morgan or anybody else at
time .Thus,one is led to beleive that LI was intended
to be a research station as well.
I belive Tesla had Telegraphy system of Long Island
station worked out to detail,but not a system of
Energy transmission.However,he continued to claim and
claim up to his death,he knew principles of such,and
that significant long range energy effects were
possible in his system.Many will say that any attempt
of transmitting significant amount of power are
inevitably conected with enormous losess of power.And
they are right.But,imagine the situation when someone
is possible with source of (only!) 7 MW power to
control the flow of waste amout of potential power in
atmosphere (that would be nothing else than 
energy of Sun converted).Who would care than about
losess.Vidmar said that Tesla was thinking in that
direction.Mad man or genious (or both).Who knows.

regards,
Boris