Re: TC vs Electron Gun

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

Tesla list wrote:

> 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>


>>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.
	Electron guns are well understood (cf the CRT most of us use

	to read this...  8)>>)

 
> 	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.
	Put one on the outside, add some filtering on the antennas.

	The pressure hull is a dandy Faraday Cage...

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