Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> At 06:20 PM 3/17/2007, Tesla list wrote:
Original poster: "Jon Danniken" <danniken@xxxxxxxxxxx>-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Science in the News From: inthenews:The teacher was testing whether a 1.5-million-volt Tesla coil could shoot a spark across the room. In the process, he cut off all police radio communications for miles.This is exactly the kind of press we don't need, especially in the post three numbers world.
And, from a technical standpoint, the report isn't credible. "cutting of police communications for miles" would require a heck of a lot more RF power than even a BIG tesla coil (we're talking 13M scale here) would put out.
Jon