Re: TC vs Electron Gun

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

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "John H. Couture by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <couturejh-at-mgte-dot-com>
> 
> Jim -
> 
> It is true that there is no extracting power from the ionosphere, however,
> the ionosphere is used as the return path for the tether  system. This
> system requires a method to obtain the current from the ionosphere and this
> is now done with an electron gun. I believe this job can be done more
> efficiently with the proper Tesla coil system.
> 
> John Couture

	It sure would be interesting to see what would happen if a large TC was
run in a vacuum!  However, I suspect no one would want to install one on
a spacecraft with all sorts of mission-critical semiconductor equipment.

Ed