Ionosphere (etc) Re: Ion Motors / Electrostatic Pendulum

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

Tesla list wrote:
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> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com>

	.....

> Hi Mike, Ben, All,
>       Since Lightning is a phenomenon of the troposphere BELOW the
> tropopause (below 50,000ft ~15-18 km) and since the ionosphere begins ABOVE
> the mesopause (above 260,000ft ~80-85 km) what is the transport mechanism for
> the forty or so miles ~60-65 km) in between the two?

	Tesla likely was unaware, as they've been discovered only in the
	last decade or so, but 'sprites' and 're jets', both odd
	discharges in the atmsophere, invisible from the ground, not
	noticed until the Shuttle crews spotted them.

>       (The existance of the ionosphere had not even been established until a
> decade after Wardenclyffe was demolished; highly unlikely that Tesla was
> going to utilize it.)

	Wells.
	The presence of 'something conducting' could be (and was)
	inferred by Tesla and others.  Estimates of the 8.mumble
	freq (now called the Schumann resonance) appear in the
	literature from 1890 or thereabouts.

	best
	dwp
	
	
> Matt D.