Info On Tesla's Power Transmission Scheme

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz>

Hi all,
         I can provide some information on the attempts to put this 
into practice as alluded to on the list a month or two back. While I 
was staying in Wading River LI, I checked through the rather meagre 
vertical file in the local library for Tesla papers I hadn't read. I 
ended up copying two of interest.

*Aside* - I also got to see Tesla's Shoreham lab (all fenced off), 
Tesla St. and the house where Tesla lived on LI - *End Aside*.

      One paper deals with possible transmission modes for such a 
scheme. I forget who it is written by but have it handy at home if 
someone wants a reference.

      The second paper is written by our colleagues the Corums and it 
would appear that it is they who are in the process of doing the 
research mentioned by Bill Wysock (actually I found out several years 
ago from the horse's mouth so to speak). This knowledge is now public 
domain. I have in my possession a book which includes a paper written 
by Toby Grotz outlining the scheme in more detail. This book was 
kindly presented to me as a gift by Mark Barton who will be familiar 
to some early list members and who I was most priveledged to meet at 
LA while in transit.

      The research as outlined in Grotz's paper is to be done in four 
steps, each successive step depending on results garnered in 
implementing its predecessor. The fourth step is to investigate 
commercial feasibility of the scheme. The basic idea appears to be to 
charge an isolated capacitance (sphere and an extension of its 
capacitance by an ion cloud) and then to thump the earth with it a 
frequency of around 7-8Hz. Unless I am mistaken, this is a 
fundamental Schumann Cavity mode and I think was referred to in the 
paper. I recall (I will bring the paper in with me tomorrow to answer 
any questions which may arise) that round trip loss figures for a 
standing wave in this mode were claimed to be on the order of 6% 
(again I will have to re-check). I suspect that there may be more to 
this than is mentioned in the paper and I am going to hazard a 
personal guess that one of the aims *might* be to cohere and 
effectively make use of the energy flying around in this cavity due 
to natural lightning. This is just a guess on my part however. Tesla 
constantly talked about "free energy" available for use and this is 
an obvious source of it. An interesting part of the scheme is the 
method of charging the isolated sphere. It will apparently be done 
using a single electrode X-ray tube of Tesla's design to create a 
conductive channel and rectification to deliver charge from the Tesla 
Coil to the sphere.
  
     Another interesting detail mentioned by Grotz is that the 
researchers will be using Robert Golka's coil at power levels around 
600kW. It doesn't take much nous to figure out that this power level 
is hardly going to run a country - hence my (educated) guess that 
natural energy channeling might be a part of the scheme.

     Anyway, I will bring both papers in with me so I can refer to 
them if needs be. Pse note that I may have some of the details 
muddled. In fact I meant to generate this post a few days ago and 
forgot each day :(

     BTW - I thoroughly enjoyed my stay in the US and developed a 
great empathy with the country and people who lived in NY. I did have 
to field a lot of queries about "which part of Australia are you 
from?" though :) 
     And while I'm at it, I enjoyed a visit to Suzanne Gaeta's house 
to see her coiling work and also spent a fair portion of a day with 
John Freau who sent me packing with one of his home-spun toroids. My 
thanks to both and to those I managed to phone while in the States 
for making my stay a more memorable one.

Regards,
Malcolm