Re: Wireless power transmission (fwd)

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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:47:40 -0700
From: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Wireless power transmission (fwd)

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>Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:08:58 -0500
>From: David Thomson <dwt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: 'Tesla list' <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: Wireless power transmission (fwd)
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>Hi Colin,
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>>Originally you were talking about longitudinal waves 
>>propagated by electrostatic repulsion between charged 
>>particles (ions) mechanically vibrating in the free air. 
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>I still am.
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>>You now seem to be talking about large scale varying 
>>electrostatic fields.
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>No, I'm not.  This is something you have brought intothis discussion, which
>I disagree with.
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>You don't move the air in a room when you talk.  The air remains, for all
>intents and purposes, perfectly still.  
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>It is true an electrostatic field will be damped, even air will damp sound
>waves.  But as we can see from longitudinal waves in air, there is quite a
>bit of room for sound wave propogation before the damping minimizes the
>longitudinal waves in the air molecules.
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>The same holds for electrostatic longitudinal waves.
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>The ion density gives the rigidity of the medium, the near field oscillation
>provides the source of the mechanical vibration.  With enough rigidity in
>the ion field and a strong enough amplitude mechanical oscillation, you can
>mechanically excite the ions for a relatively long distance (greater than
>inverse square law for EM radiation).  
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>>It's also the case that to 
>>generate a large scale varying electrostatic field you'll 
>>need to move about large amounts of charge to/from somewhere else.
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>There is no varying electrostatic field in the sense you are talking about.
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>Dave
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Dave:

    Can you propose an experiment which would differentiate conclusively 
between your concept of longitudinal waves and the conventional 
propagation phenomena with which the rest of us are familiar?

Ed