Re: TC & Lightning

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Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net> 

At 05:24 PM 7/24/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>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

DC field, and yes, you can extract it to run small electronic 
devices.  Scientific American's Amateur Scientist had an electrostatic 
motor that ran off a kite/balloon suspended wire.