Re: Tesla myths corrected - Best text? (fwd)

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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:01:48 -0600
From: Gary Peterson <g.peterson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Tesla myths corrected - Best text? (fwd)

> Rather than quote Tesla why don't you give us your own calculations

God willing, my mathematical analysis of the Tesla system will begin at some 
point in the near future; I'm presently tooling up.  In the meantime you 
should be satisfied with Peter Terren's calculations that have resulted in a 
global transmission line loss figure of approximately 80 - 85 kW, a mere 10% 
or so larger than that cited by Tesla.

As for providing a design for the transmitter (resonator diameter, length, 
wire size, Q, insulation to withstand the high voltage, also elevated 
terminal, ground terminal, master oscillator, HV power supply, etc.) there 
are other people on and off this list who are more qualified than I am for 
that job.

Errata: A paragraph from a previous post should read,

"The Tesla coil RF transmitter described in the above patent constituted a 
departure from the earlier transmitter planned for the Wardenclyffe facility 
(see www.teslaradio.com/images/image014.gif ).  Rather than strictly an 
earth resonance transmitter, the new design was of the type in which a 
second conducting path would be established in the upper half-space between 
plant's elevated terminal and that of the distant receiving facility.  It is 
possible the 1902 transmitter could also be used to excite an earth 
resonance mode."

> From: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Tesla myths corrected - Best text? (fwd)
>
>> The 75 kW is derived from Tesla's statement,
>>
>>    "I have, in fact, worked out a plant of 10,000 horse-power which would 
>> operate with no bigger loss than 1 percent of the whole power applied; 
>> that is, with the exception of the frictional energy that is consumed in 
>> the rotation of the engines and the heating of the conductors, I would 
>> not lose more than 1 percent.  In other words, if I have a 10,000 
>> horsepower plant, it would take only 100 horsepower to keep the earth 
>> vibrating so long as there is no energy taken out at any other place." --  
>> Nikola Tesla, 1916
>>
>>> I think [amount of power required to resonate the earth, i.e., the 
>>> global transmission line loss] is nearer 80 - 85kW myself.
>>
>> Thanks, I can live with that.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Gary
>
> "Rather than quote Tesla why don't you give us your own calculations and 
> the assumptions on which they're based?  I'll be glad to send my version 
> to for critique to anyone who is interested and they disagree by many 
> orders of magnitude.  Surely you've made your own calculations rather than 
> rely on sensational statements made a century ago?????
>
> "Ed"