Re: Ionosphere (etc) Re: Ion Motors / Electrostatic Pendulum

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi,

A month or two ago, we pondered what it would take to get Tesla's idea to
work today.  Getting electrodes from the coil high enough to get to the
really conductive ionosphere layers was a serious problem...

Cheers,

Terry


At 10:43 PM 7/21/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Tesla list wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>