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RE: Wireless Energy Transmission

> Original Poster: "chris morgan" <crmorgan-at-hotmail-dot-com> 
> 
> 
> 
> >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.

A comparison isn't that unreasonable given the statements in the 
original post. A Tesla Coil spark serves to equalize opposite charges 
too doesn't it? Tesla stated that he didn't want sparks for power 
transmission but he spent a lot of time making and photographing them 
and not a great deal transmitting power if his writings in the Notes 
are anything to go by.
    Has anyone stopped to consider the implications of what would 
happen if earth oscillations actually did build up? Compare the 
capacitance of the earth with the puny capacitance of the machine, 
large as it was.

Malcolm