Re: Tesla's World Electrical System (was Field Mill Voltmeter)

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
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> Original poster: "John H. Couture by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net>
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> To All -
> 
> If you go to this site you will find the basics for Tesla's world electrical
> system. Quoted from the site "Standing on a hilltop, you would see a forest
> of electric-field lines shooting out of the ground everywhere, stretching up
> to the ionosphere". These are currents circulating between the ionosphere
> and earth with billions of kilowatt hours a day.
> 
> This electrical energy powers the weather, etc, on earth. The source of this
> energy is the sun. Tesla wanted to use this system except with electrical
> sources on earth. He said he had solved the earth to ionosphere path problem
> but never revealed the details. In other words the circuitry is already
> available, only implementation is required. The system would use currents
> not Hertzian waves.
> 
> John Couture

	Have to look up the exact numbers, but the equivalent voltage of the
ionosphere with respect to earth is of the order of 400 kV, and the
average current flowing (due to lightning bolts) is of the order of 1000
to 2000 amperes.  The product of those two is only about 400 to 800
megawatts at best.  It's true that energy comes from the some, but the
charging of the ionosphere is a rather inefficient mechanism.  There is
a lot more energy available from strategically-located windmills.

Ed