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RE: Wireless Energy Transmission
The figure I recall for the outlieing effects
was more on the order of twenty miles and was
probably less for the really spectacular stuff like
local farmers seeing St. Elmo's Fire dancing around
their lightning rods at twilight.
One account that sticks in my mind was
of someone seeing sparks glittering between sand
particles in the ground.
For the effects to be as pronounced as a 1"
spark drawn off something 300 miles away Tesla
would have had to do something more than just
slag the local area generator.
As far as I know no one really knows if
his power transmission scheme would have worked.
There's lots of theory that tends to say no. But,
theory is modified by experience, not the other way
around and no one, to my knowledge, has actually
taken the time and effort to precisely duplicate
Tesla's experiments and see what the results are.
As an example, gravity control was thought
to be just science fiction until just recently. A couple
of fellows in Finland were tinkering with a rotating
disk of superconductor and found that things above
the disc loose as much as 2% of their weight.
So NASA is now funding serious research
into the effect.
So much for theory...
The numbers and equations might say no,
but reality continues to surprise.
John W.
>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
>