Re: Electrical Oscillators in Space

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi,

Just like in a high voltage vacuum tube or vacuum capacitor, a vacuum as a
very high dielectric breakdown voltage like (1000kV/mil).  A Tesla coil in
such a high vacuum could never breakout or make streamers.  All the power
would go into heating the gaps or the coils up.

Cheers,

	Terry


At 05:10 PM 8/6/2002 -0500, you wrote:
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>I've done no extensive searches, nor have I seen any sort of reference to
>such a device as I'm about to pose as a possibility.  Is the nature of
>Tesla Coil  streamers characterized to the extent that we may be able to
>design elements to accelerate them.  For example, with proper phasing of
>opposite voltage transitions in some sort of velocity dependent
>synchronization to the streamer(s), could the streamers be accelerated in
>open air? (Some sort of plasma gun?)Or, as I'm afraid, are the streamers
>interacted with the environment along their paths to the extent their
>nature has been changed or randomized so that no synchronization could be
>developed, hence no acceleration?  Just some thoughts for the experts to
>ponder.
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>Toroid, Breakout point, phased/sync'd elements, etc.
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>Dwight Crider
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