Re: SSTC As a transmitter

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



In a message dated 8/1/02 7:38:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes:


>
> > This system uses
> > currents that flow thru the ionosphere as one
> > conductor and the earth as the
> > other. These two conductors are connected by
> > currents flowing thru the
> > atmosphere during fair weather and by lightning
> > strikes during storms.
> > 


Hi All,
Problem here is that Lightning is a tropospheric phenomenon. The layers of the
atmosphere that produce lightning strikes to earth and that Tesla wanted to
send his "terminals" into, end at least THIRTY MILES BELOW  the beginning of
the ionosphere. Not on his worst later day would he have considered a
fifty-mile high antenna practical. The pressures described by Tesla as
appropriate to his "conduction layer" (75-150 mmHg) are many times higher than
that in the densest portion of the ionosphere.  It seems obvious therefore,
that anyone claiming that Tesla was planning to use the ionosphere for
transmission of power by non-Hertzian means are mistaken. Just as Jules Verne
wrote of a submarine powered by a (Voltaic) pile (battery) in 1870, which the
Disney Studio writers mistook for an (Atomic) pile (nuclear reactor) in the
1950s adaptation of his book, it is an easy error to project later discoveries
back onto earlier authors. Ironically, the ionosphere HAS been very u! seful in
making global transmission of signals by Hertzian waves very practical. This is
because of its reflectivity, not its conductivity.  

Matt D.