RE: Wireless Energy Transmission

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• Subject: RE: Wireless Energy Transmission
• From: "chris morgan" <crmorgan-at-hotmail-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 06:51:23 -0600
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>From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: RE: Wireless Energy Transmission
>Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 06:26:25 -0600
>
>Original Poster: "Malcolm Watts" <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
>
>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
>
>
I don't think you can compare lightning and a tesla coil.  A bolt of 
lightning serves to equalize oppisite charges.  This isn't what a tesla coil 
would do in a wireles transmission system.


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