Re: without wires?

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net> 

"Pressure in a tube is not the same as air pressure at a great altitude,
the
voltage and amperage is already there, Tesla didnt need to provide great
mega wattages.

Theres a very nice patent which was issued in brazil, cant remember much
about it, but the basis was running a wire a mile long supported a fair
way
up from the ground which gave a nice few free bucks of wattage, if its
true
or not I have no idea, though it didnt make the headlines for a while.
harnessing the wattages from the capacitance of the earth is not
uncommon,
Tesla simply took this one stage further.

  > I'm sure Terry's tired of this subject but go to one of the free
energy
  > lists and the conversation goes on and on, as it has since the
internet
  > was started.

...... and you would think it could be solved in practice rather than
speculation by now ;-)

Chris"

	There are plenty of radar systems mounted on balloons operating up to
more than 20,00 feet and connected to the ground by both tether cables
and leads to bring power up.  No significant currents have been observed
due to any atmospheric phenonemon.  If the guys running them even
suspect the possibility of lightning in the vicinity they get them down
as fast as possible.

Ed