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.
> > 



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.  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. By 1919 the highest altitude yet achieved by anyone
was about 6.5 miles. 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 (or in danger of falling in with those who say
Nostradamus predicted traffic jams in NY, etc.) Ironically, the ionosphere HAS
been very useful in making global transmission of signals by Hertzian waves
very practical. 
Matt D.