Re: 7.1Hz, how the heck did Tesla succeed?

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Original poster: William Beaty <billb@xxxxxxxxxx>

On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> We seem to be able to run Tesla coils today, all over the Earth, without
> any big problem ;-)))


But if you forget to place your main terminal up on top of a 187ft tower
covered with xray tubes or ultraviolet spotlights, you'll have trouble
"getting out."  :)


Ouch!  Another idea just hit me.   :)

Since the UV spotlights or x-ray tubes could be connected to put out
radiation beams during either the positive half-cycle or the negative,
what's the diff?  Big diff!  Since the clear-weather vertical e-field is
negative-earth, positive,ionosphere, then if the Tesla Tower emits
positive ions, they will move downwards.  But if it emits negative ions,
they will move upwards.

What does this do?  Well, a cloud of ions can be moved by AC e-fields, so
a cloud of ions is a high-ohms conductor.  A Tesla Tower which is ionizing
the air with constant UV would be creating an invisible conductor; an
antenna made from air, BUT ...this ion-conductor would contain both
positive and negative ions, and it would only extend out along the short
UV beams.  On the other hand, if the Tesla tower was putting out UV pulses
during the negative voltage excursions, it would be emitting more negative
ions than positive, and a "plume" of negative ions would sail upwards out
of the UV beam.  This ion cloud would act as a conductive antenna, so a
huge "invisible antenna" would extend skyward over many minutes.

This could cause the "world system" transmitter to work better and better
the longer it was in operation.   (I think Tesla noted just this effect.)

But how fast does the negative ion-cloud move?  IT would be like smoke
from a factory chimney, or perhaps more like hydrogen.  If it drifted
slowly out of the main terminal (or out of the UV beams,) then the wind
would blow it downstream, and it would lay horizontally above the
landscape.  But if it moved fast, or if there was little wind, it would
rise vertically.  And if there was a thunderstorm anywhere in the area, it
would behave oddly.

Perhaps this would be a variation to be eliminated, rather than an
"invisible ten mile antenna tower" which improved the system performance.


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