Re: Lightning Gun To Combat Terrorists - WHERE IS THE RETURN PATH???

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Original poster: stork <stork@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Tesla list wrote:
> Original poster: "GEORGE STEIN" <afa2fg@xxxxxxx>
> Several years ago, while running my small 4 inch TC, one of those 
> big, hard shelled black bugs flew close to the top terminal and was 
> struck by a streamer. The sound of the streamer increased noticably 
> and the bug went down. There was smoke or steam if'n I remember 
> correctly. All the streamers were to air and not a "grounded" target.
> George Stein

CORRECT

Although there is charge consevation in the Universe, this is an open 
system and charge distribution is not required to be uniform.  There 
is no law that demands an electric current equalize charge in a return path.







> > From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: Lightning Gun To Combat Terrorists - WHERE IS THE RETURN
> > PATH???
> > Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 15:26:18 -0600
> >
> > Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > "Original poster: "Mercurus2000" <mercurus2000@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > If there is a return path when a tesla coil streamer strikes a object in
> > mid
> > air, connected to nothing, for the sake of argument, the only return
> > path
> > would be within the ionized air of the streamer itself or capacitively
> > thro
> > the air, correct?
> > Adam"
> >
> >         The return path would be via the capacitance of the object to the
> > surroundings and then to the bottom of the TC.
> >
> > Ed
>
>
> .