Re: dead grass around our coil

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Hollmike-at-aol-dot-com>

Well, I read that article(reproduced in a ham radio club newsletter 
'booklet').  It had data showing a significant increase in the size of the 
vegetables in the patch with the tesla coil.  The power was not too high 
though - maybe 500W.  Perhaps there is a power range where the high frequency 
influence helps.  Perhaps there is a range of frequencies that are 'good' for 
plants.  None of this was studied in any detail, from what I can tell.   An 
18kVA coil might operate at a low enough frequency that it would be harmful, 
but maybe above some threshold, improvement might be had.  The article showed 
that the experimenter was quite thorough in eliminating other factors that 
might influence the plant growth, but did not do a study of growth rate vs. 
frequency, power level, or anything like that.   
Mike 



>
> Hi All, 
>
> I remember running across some old printed material where people were 
> experimenting with using a Tesla coil to make the plants grow faster and 
> healthier. I guess we can file that old yarn into the same folder along with 
> the radium cures of the good old days! 
>
> My ferns don't seem to mind the ozone and nitrous acid but they have never 
> suffered any direct hits from streamers. 
>
> Sue