Re: Ion Motors / Electrostatic Pendulum

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Original poster: "Metlicka Marc by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <mystuffs-at-orwell-dot-net>

rww, all
i read a paper from tesla where he talked about his generated "waves" of
energy traversing through the globe, bouncing off the opposite, and at a
resonance this wave was "kicked" as it rebounded with a added pulse.
this resulted in a "building" of the energy in the wave to "great
potentials". all this was happening at Colorado springs, this energy was
resulting in coronal discharges of items setting on the ground. it was
stated that if continued, greater and greater buildup could supply huge
potentials.
so, WAS his idea to be using the atmosphere as the power conductor or
was it to be the return path for that which would come out of the earth?
if the earth was to be a charged plate of a capacitor, so to speak, and
the ionosphere the other and the air was to be the dielectric, then as
the plates are charged higher and higher, wouldn't the task of
"punching" the dielectric become easier and easier?
was tesla actually planing on "using" the energy in the schumann cavity,
or was he thinking that if the cavity could be resonated by the act of
lightning and these resonance's were mostly continuos, than maybe a man
made resonance could be pulsed and "kicked" at these frequencies and
caused to rise in magnitude, propagating across, through and all around
the globe?
just some thoughts on this in need of comments.
marc m.
geek #1055
(PI GEEK)


Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Richard Wayne Wall by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rwall-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com>
> 
> Tesla was not as impressed by big sparks as we are.  However, he did use them
> for promotion with the public and his sponsors.  He enjoyed his showmanship.
> Over all though, he considered sparks a great waste of energy for his
main goal
> of wireless energy propagation.  Wardenclyff was not designed to be a huge
> spark generator.
> 
> His patents state repeatedly that wireless propagation of energy was through
> the "medium" and earth.  Interestingly his patent states the propagation was
> not by "radiant" means (he mentions Hertzian radio waves and excludes them),
> but by actual conduction of the medium.  There are several overlapping
patents
> on this topic and they are very interesting reading.  Tesla was impressed by
> Crookes vacuum tubes and he noted as a higher vacuum was approached they
became
> conductive.  This is the crux of his idea and is noted in the patent.  He
> believed the evacuated "medium" behaved as a true conductor.
> 
> So Mike, your thread is right on target.
> 
> RWW
> >
> >