Re: TC & Lightning

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Original poster: "mercurus2000" <mercurus2000-at-cox-dot-net> 

Don't worry about the craze, Storms and lighting do have many AC components,
10 mhz is one frequency that occurs during the entire lightning strike.
Adam

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Subject: Re: TC & Lightning


 > Original poster: "Christoph Bohr" <cb-at-luebke-lands.de>
 >
 > Hello All.
 >
 > One thing I did not yet understand about this phenomenon ( or overread it
 > ? )
 > Is the energy static, is this a DC field? Or is this something with AC
 > properties? The latter one yould be fetched up with a tuned / matched
 > antenna and fed to the base of a free resonator coil which is designed to
 > meet the currents frequency.
 > I am not trying to join the "free energy" craze, but maybe there is some
 > energy you can pic up and use. I guess it could be feasible to draw small
 > amounts of energy to power a low power device, like a remote weather
station
 > or GPS stuff. The kite yould be repalced with a helium balloon. Just
 > dreaming and not too tesla-coil related, so I sill stop this here ;-)
 >
 > best regards
 >
 > Christoph Bohr
 >
 >
 > ----- Original Message -----
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 > Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 3:19 PM
 > Subject: Re: TC & Lightning
 >
 >
 >  > Original poster: Matthew Smith <matt-at-kbc-dot-net.au>
 >  >
 >  > Tesla list wrote:
 >  > >Original poster: "mercurus2000" <mercurus2000-at-cox-dot-net>
 >  > >Hmm, how high up were you able to fly the kite? I have a 50 feet
length
 > of
 >  > >insulated wire running parallel to the ground at a elevation of 10
feet.
 >  > >With it I can only get about 10 volts max on a voltmeter while the
 > storm's
 >  > >overhead.
 >  >
 >  > Could it be that all the charge is draining through the voltmeter?  I'd
 >  > have thought that you'd need something with a HUGE input impedance for
 > this.
 >  >
 >  >
 >  > --
 >  > Matthew Smith
 >  > Kadina Business Consultancy
 >  > South Australia
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