RE: real life applications, steered back on topic

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Original poster: "Jim Mora" <jmora@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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> If I not mistaken he was admired by Einstein.
     I'd be interested in a cite.

Try the Tesla Society.
http://www.teslasociety.com/einsteinletter.jpg

Can someone translate this to English please.

 > I have faith and much evidence that he was a genius.
     concur, however even geniuses are not always right.
     cf Einstein, for one.

 > The mere fact that he considered Edison's DC as folly is noticed by me
 > every time I look out the window or drive down the road studying the
 > grid.
    Varies depending on where on the grid one is.
    I routinely drive under a +/-500KV _DC_ international power
    line, calmly moving megwatts, likely including some of those
    that power this message.

Maybe so but it comes through the transformer out on the pole that has been
there 50 years.

Yes one runs down the Sacramento- San Joaquin Valley PG&E from Diablo
Nuclear Plant I think and Lake Shasta.

Have you hooked this to your service entrance yet? :-^)

> To this day aren't Tesla coils used to study aircraft's lightning
 > effects on the skin and the "hardening" of the electronics?
    and all manner of other surge generatos, Marx banks, etc.

    best
     dwp

Regards and Truce,

Jim Mora