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Re: Wireless Energy Transmission



In a message dated 5/21/99 11:21:08 PM Mountain Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

>  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
>  
Who in 1899 or 1900 could have been 300 miles away and known when Tesla was 
firing his coil?   I rather think that this effect was noticed 3 miles away, 
in Colorado Springs.  That would still be impressive to be able to draw a one 
inch arc from a grounded water pipe with nothing but a rod of metal in hand 
from that distance.  There are reports of him being able to light bulbs as 
far away as Cripple Creek (26 miles away), but I don't think those reports 
were substantiated.  It seems like I remember reading in Tesla's Colorado 
Springs notes that he could see light bulbs light up on Pike's Peak when he 
fired up his coil, but I read the notes years ago and could be mistaken in 
that.
Mike