Re: TC & Lightning

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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


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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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