From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Holy Crap!
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 19:02:44 -0600
Original poster: Vardan <vardan01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Jim,
So they might mean an actual "porous clay" thing
that, when all wet, allows current to pass
through but would still be physically like a
little "pressure canon". That might be very
similar to the situation where a lightning
strike hits the ground and drills a hole Earthwards.
I don't have anything like a clay tube. So a
power drill with a small bit :-))) I can't
think of any common items from the hardware
store that could be "utilized" right
off... Most modern clay electrical ceramics are very water proof...
The time function given is about right but I
wonder if the current is very high at first and
decreases dramatically during the event. They
might have just done a simple average RC time
thing to get the odd very low 60 amp
number... I bet it is more of a high initial
pulse current to get the explosion of plasma
going and just all inertia driven after that.
Cheers,
Terry
At 06:27 PM 6/9/2006, you wrote:
At 04:13 PM 6/9/2006, you wrote:
Original poster: Vardan <vardan01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi,
The problem is - what in the world is
a ""Clay/tone"" ???? It really means
'nothing' in English.. A number of net
translator engines get "small" out of it
too... The original key word, with the little
spots and all lost, is "Tonröhrchen"...
ö = oe
die Roehre is a tube (either as in a pipe, or as in a "valve" in electronics)
roehrchen is a small tube
Tonroehr would be a resonant tube/organ pipe/etc.
The clay-pipe reference probably refers more to
a Tonpfeife.. a flute made of clay, as opposed to wood/etc.
So, there's some sort of tube insulating the electrode from the water.
It says that the current flows through the
water for 0.15 seconds at up to 60 Amps (einflussen is the verb, here)
The next sentence is talks about "via the
Ueberschlag (overturning, dissociation?)of the
water of the current (Strom) through the tiny
tube .. the contained water evaporates.
After the current impulse (Stromimpuls) a
glowing plasmoid is (shown) from ionized water molecules.
I think zeigen, here, means "created" as
opposed to the usual meaning of pointing or showing.
I think this is one of those terms only
locals that really speak the language all the
time understand. So we need some German person to translate it for "sure" ;-))
There is a city named Clayton, but I don't think it would fit in the tank...
Cheers,
Terry