Re: Quarter Wavelength Frequency

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

 > One of Tesla's desired goals was to eliminate capacitance from his
 > extra coil entirely and in the Notes, one can read of the many
 > schemes he dreamt up to try and achieve this. Eventually, he resigned
 > himself to the fact that nature was placing limits on his endeavours.
 > Had he been successful, he would have ended up without a resonator as
 > it would have had no dynamic energy storage mechanism.
 >
 > Malcolm
 > <snip>

wouldn't that be "half a dynamic storage mechanism"... the inductance can
store energy as current, but without a capacitor to store energy as charge,
it wouldn't be much of a resonator.