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Re: How to build a Tesla Tower



Original poster: "Greg Leyh by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <lod-at-pacbell-dot-net>

How about the design where they wind a coil of sufficient girth,
and load it with enough capacitance to resonate at 60Hz?
According to reports, these seem to work best when situated
directly under high-current transmission lines.   ^_^


>Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>
>Hi Ron,
>Aside from picking up a few stray radio signals, you won't get much "free 
>energy" with a Tesla coil. In fact the consume pretty dramatic amounts of 
>energy from the wall outlet to run. Like 500 to 1500 watts! It mostly goes 
>into heat, noise, and sparks. All the energy is going "out" not "in".
>"Free energy" subjects are off our topic matter, but Tesla coils will not 
>do that trick. If you are interested in Tesla coils, see the many Tesla 
>coil sites at:
>http://j.webring-dot-com/hub?ring=teslaring&id=265&hub
>Cheers,
>Terry
>
>At 08:00 PM 6/1/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>I am a novice to knowing things about electricity, however I would like to
>build a testla tower to extract free energy from the air. Any sugguested
>learning resources?