Re: 7.1Hz, Could Tesla have succeeded?

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Original poster: William Beaty <billb@xxxxxxxxxx>

On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Tesla list wrote:

> 	True.  However, he repeatedly states that he proposed using a
> "conducting layer which was kept ionized by his transmitter and served
> as a CONDUCTING transmission line, with the earth as a return path.  The
> consequences of creating that conducting layer at any altitude you might
> choose are easy enough to calculate and are completely discouraging.  He
> appears to have grossly underestimated the resistance of either
> conductor.  When he ran experiments conducting power via an evacuated
> tube he apparently had no way of measuring the impedance of the path and
> seems to have assumed it was zero.  The presence of millions of neon and
> similar signs is evidence to the contrary.

Since Tesla was also a Geissler-tube lightning expert (with fluorescent
lamp lighting installed in his NY lab, and a lightning display at the
world's fair) it doesn't make sense that he'd be ignorant.

Lots of things don't make sense.  Colorado Springs coil frequency was way
too high to drive the high-Q earth resonances, and from his writings Tesla
was well aware of this.  Rather than assuming that Tesla failed, instead
we should ask how he could have used tesla coils to pump energy into the
earth resonances.  That's the topic of this thread.

The guy wasn't an idiot, yet people here seem to assume that he was stupid
enough to drive the Earth with too high a frequency, and was stupid enough
to go forward with building Wardenclyffe without having verified possible
operation by performing long distance tests at Colorado Springs.  We have
only second hand stories that such tests were performed.

Also: do we assume that we have all of his notes?  ...so that anything not
written down ...didn't happen?  Perhaps we know the whole story, so
obviously Tesla around 1900 was totally incompetent as an engineer.  But
instead I suspect that Tesla encountered and solved the various problems
we're discussing.  I suspect that the published Tesla writings only
include a tiny fragment of his accomplishments, and this leads people to
arrogantly assume that their own understanding of all these issues is far
ahead of Teslas.   (The alternative is to decide that perhaps Tesla was
MORE advanced than our "totally understood" 2005 VLF engineering.   We
can't have that!  )

:)

THe key point is...  if Tesla was competent, and it's in fact possible to
do all that Tesla claimed, then any of us stands a chance of figuring out
the same tricks.

A bit of science philosophy:

  http://amasci.com/freenrg/wbelief1.html#a6


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