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Re: earth resonance
At 10:25 PM 8/30/96 -0600, you wrote:
>Tesla never produced any ULF at earth resonant frequencies in Colorado!
> (Lowest frequency he used at power was about 50Khz)
>This was a hypothesis he formed after receiving returns from advancing
>and receding thunderstorms. He hit the nail on the head about the
>frequency, though.
>R. Hull, TCBOR
>> [ If someone could clear up the question of earth resonance (how it was
>> produced), I would appreciate it. It would help me resolve the
>> question of whether it is tesla coil related or not. -- Chip ]
>
>Chip, Earth resonance has to do with electrically exciting the
>transmission line (or 1/4 wave line) which is a line linking the
>antipodes usually, but according to the Corums in July at the ITS
>gathering, it can be any cross sectional line through the earth. On
>the anitpodal resonance, Tesla was accurate to a fraction of a hertz on
>his original estimate!!
>
>A resonator can be a piece of wire, a coil, a stretch of even high
>resistance conductor (earth)! A signal injected into it (via the ground
>in the case of Tesla's original concept) will reflect and build at or
>near resonance by standing waves which can be altered by slight changes
>in the frequency. Nodes can be set up and power taken at any point. I
>am still on the fence about actual implimentation of the concept, but it
>is intellectually feasible.
>
>Richard Hull, TCBOR
Is there a difference between having a large inductance and a small
capacitance versus a small inductance and a large capacitance both tuned to
the same frequency?