Re: Re:MY Tesla Coil:Star Wars: (fwd)

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Original poster: "Albert Hassick" <uncadoc-at-juno-dot-com> 

Hi John, All. 
 When my nephew (whom is an E.E.) gave me this picture I asked him the
same thing!  Where is the rest of the article?!  But he said the trade
magazine has since been discarded, and that he cut out the photo of the
"Big Tesla" for me to see, since we were working on some high voltage
stuff in the basement.  I did not attempt to mislead anyone with these
photos.  But I thought that the list would enjoy seeing some real big
high voltage stuff.  But nonetheless, the flip side of text of the
article that is available on the .jpg I submitted to the list does indeed
state:  "a needle in the sky".  This is what intrigued me since I had
read about Teslas anti-warfare ideas in a book that I have.    And this
is indeed a "Star Wars" land based interception medium that utilizes
lightening on demand to create an pulse of high energy for the laser beam
for the purpose of destroying an incoming warhead.  Yes, it is a Star
Wars intercept device and not a bit of fantasy on my part!     AL.

On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 11:49:56 -0700 (MST) "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
writes:
> Original poster: Tesla List Moderator <mod1-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
> 
> This was definitely a lightning supression system.  I read an 
> article on
> it in Scientific American several years ago.
> -- Chip
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 10:36:22 -0800
> From: John Williams <jwilliams-at-edm-dot-net>
> To: Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Subject: Re: MY Tesla Coil:Star Wars:
> 
> Nice diagram, also nice the way the edges of the page are missing so
> we can't go look up the source and find out what the article
> was about or where it came from.
> 
> Like others have said, it looks much more like an experiment in
> laser lightning arresting than a weapon system.
> 
> There are a couple of problems with it as a weapon system.  One
> being that there is a well known problem with using a laser
> to punch through anything that has any significan thickness,
> like a block of stone or several miles of atmosphere.
> 
> Once you create a plasma it likes to sit there an go right on 
> soaking
> up energy.  It doesn't transmit that energy efficiently to the 
> matter
> behind it.  That is why laser mining/tunnel boring devices never
> came to be.  That is also why there has never been a large scale
> laser lightning suppression systems installed.  I believe the power
> required to ionize a path with a single laser grows exponentially
> with the length of path to be ionized.  There was a group working
> to bypass this problem by using two lasers that would reach
> ionization energy where the beams crossed.  The idea being to
> scan a "hole" in the sky, but I haven't heard anything much about
> it since the original article, and at any rate, at some point to 
> maintain
> the desired ionization energy where the beams cross you have to
> jack up the power of the scanning beams to overcome atmospheric
> attenuation.  At some point you reach ionization energy in the
> two source beams and you are back to where you started.
> 
> The other little problem is that if your laser has enough energy to
> ionize the air and you fire it passed a high voltage source, like
> a really poweful tesla coil, the path to ground is not up into the
> sky into an ever more insulated environment but back in the
> direction of the laser system and ground plane.
> 
> I add my vote to the "Nice fantasy" crowd.
> 
> See ya...
> 
> 	John
> 
> >Original poster: "Albert Hassick" <uncadoc-at-juno-dot-com>
> >
> > Ok, list members, A long time ago in a galaxy far away! Here is 
> what My
> >Tesla Coil is being used for.  It is one of our government projects 
> (do
> >we still have a government?), and it is a monster of a coil. 
> Seething
> >with power and channelled to a big laser and focused with a giant
> >telescope lens.  Yes, it is Tesla's Needle in the Sky!  Used for
> >destroying incoming warheads or whatever!  One thing for sure, and 
> that
> >is that whatever this high powered needle hits is a goner for sure! 
> Tesla
> >was wwwwaaaayyyyyy ahead of his time.  I think the feds are using 
> Tesla's
> >lost Colorado Springs notebook to help them envision how to build 
> and use
> >this weapon of defense (offense).  Is this neat or what!   Just 
> think of
> >the possibilities the next time you throw that big knife switch to
> >energize your coil!    AL.
> >
> >http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/Temp/teslapic1.jpg
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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