Re: Wireless transmission of power,

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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>

"Any attempt at trying to analyze Tesla's work with modern RF theory is
in vain.  Tesla despised RF and minimized its radiation effects from
his circuits.  Tesla wanted all the electrons to stay within the Tesla
coil and use the energy to modulate the medium rather than shooting
electrons and photons all over the place.

Dave"

	Wrong as can be.  Modern (and not so modern) "RF theory" is perfectly
capable of determining the electrical parameters of Tesla's proposed
transmitting system and of the power and losses associated with
operating it as his patents describe.  That's just simple "Ohm's law"
and he described ALL of the pieces so it is easy to construct the
circuits and determine the consequences of energizing them.  Anything
built to those specifications would have to behave as analyzed.

	If there is any place for uncertainty (to those of us who are slaves to
"modern theory") it is as to the mode by which he hoped to use the
apparatus to transmit energy and deliver it to remote receivers.  It's
not necessary to consider that mechanism in order to analyze the
transmitter performance.

Ed