Re: Non-Radiative Evanescent Waves are back in the news, Political (fwd)

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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:07:37 -0700
From: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Non-Radiative Evanescent Waves are back in the news,
     Political (fwd)

Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:16:55 EDT
From: ashumate3@xxxxxxx
To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Non-Radiative Evanescent Waves are back in the news,
     Political (fwd)

Seems to me that many saw radio the same way. Low efficiency, unreliable,  to 
costly and telegraph is more reliable. Other than some Ham radio operators  
and  radio operators on ships who uses Morse Code.
 
People seem to get caught in a trap of not thinking outside the box. I am  
sure Tesla saw the problems of his wireless power, but from what I have  read 
about him he did not give up, just let the ideal and approaches to solving  
technical issues work out in his mind.
 
If your attitude going in is it can't be done, you've been defeated before  
you began. But if you take the approach this is what Tesla did to get to this  
point what can be done to improve efficiency. I go back to my original  
statement, Nikola did not have materials available to him that is out there  today. 
You have to remember that when he died the only solid state device in use  
then were rectifiers.
 
If the mountain looks to you like its insurmountable you will  never be able 
to climb it.
 
Al Shumate"

Al:

	I admire your optimistic outlook but you don't give enough credit to some of us; have you read the discussions here over the last several years?  Have you read Tesla's Colorado Springs Notes which describe his experiments and their results?  Tesla didn't give up but neither did he succeed or claim to have succeeded.  Many of us have taken the approach of trying to assume that Tesla's hardware was built and used as he proposed in his patents and find that there are many practical design problems which transcend any inferior materials he nay have used.  The limitations aren't in materials but in the basic concept itself and no amount of wishful thinking or optimism can defeat the laws of mother nature.  Those who have attempted to replicate his results [his patents spell out in detail how to build the equipment] have failed to come within orders of magnitudes of the efficiencies he claimed.  David Thompson was working hard on a demonstration setup a few months ago but apparently either ran out of resources or wasn't able to get the results he expected.  That's happened to everyone else too.

Ed