RE: Wireless Energy Transmission

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: RE: Wireless Energy Transmission
From: "Malcolm Watts" <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 06:26:25 -0600
Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
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Hi Andy,

> Original Poster: "Andy Cleary" <gemware2-at-dreamscape-dot-com> 
> 
> Just a small note that I figured I would add.  On a previous post I followed
> a link to Tesla Coil sites (from a search engine I believe) and that brought
> me to an archive of Tesla pictures.  As a caption to the picture, it said
> that Tesla's largest coil put such high voltages into the ground that a 1"
> spark could be drawn from a drain pipe 300 miles away.  If that was indeed
> true, then perhaps this idea would be feasible.  Although I have not taken a
> physics course yet in school, making my knowledge greatly lacking, I thought
> that I might add that promising point.
> 
> -Andy

Does this happen with the vastly greater energy of a lightning strike?
What voltage could a coil 10' high really stand? What about an 
insulator 10' long?

Malcolm