RE: SSTC As a transmitter.

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Original poster: "John H. Couture by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <couturejh-at-mgte-dot-com>


Paul -

You bring up a good point. What does cause the currents in the ionosphere to
flow? Normally a current will flow in a conductor when there is a difference
in voltage in the conductror. This is easy to explain for a generator but
how is this difference in voltage created in the ionosphere? What is the
mechanism that creates the EM fields that creates the voltage which causes
the currents to flow? And these currents are Hertzian waves?

In the case of the generator the energy source is normally the fuel which is
converted into work to turn the generator which creates a voltage difference
in the conductor circuit that causes the current to flow. In the case of the
ionosphere the source of energy is the sun but how is this energy utilized
to create an EM field that creates a voltage difference in the ionosphere
and causes currents to flow? Did Tesla find that an ultra high voltage from
a Tesla coil could somehow be a part of this syatem?

John Couture

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Subject: Re: SSTC As a transmitter.


Original poster: "Paul Nicholson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<paul-at-abelian.demon.co.uk>

John wrote:
> This system does not use hertzian waves and Tesla made a point
> of this fact. This system uses currents that flow thru the
> ionosphere as one conductor and the earth as the other.

Ask yourself what makes those currents flow.  A field of course,
so it does use EM waves.  Hertzian?  There is no alternative for
the EM field.  I mentioned the importance of the integrity of
pronouncements by engineers. Here's a case in point where someone
has been led to believe two quite daft and useless things - that
currents can flow without a field to drive them, and that there
is another way to propagate energy through the field other than
by waving the field values up and down.  John, et al, should have
been able to trust Tesla's statements as a responsible engineer,
but he has been let down.  Wonder how many man-years this
particular double-whammy has wasted over the decades?

Paul Nicholson
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