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

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Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:30:13 +0800
From: Peter Terren <pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Tesla myths corrected - Best text? (fwd)

WHAT!  I am sorry, Gary, the 80 - 85kW was a joke to lighten the post.  It 
was misleading but not to someone understanding the post.
If you read the text of my post, you would see that the upper limit could 
not be estimated because it was just not feasible. The biggest Soviet Marx 
Generator can give a transient 9MV discharge. If this voltage was sustained 
you would just get the most massive 100 meter power arc that drained any 
number of gigawatts or terrawatts of power to ground in an effective short 
circuit. No solid insulator is going to hold that 9MV, let alone 100MV.  It 
is just not feasible any more than 1MV in your hand is. Let alone put it 
into the ionosphere, let alone cope with huge losses from lightning/sprites 
etc.
I am sorry (hush falls on the room) Tesla was WRONG. It's no big deal.  We 
have the benefit over 100 years of solid science since. Like we know about 
the ionosphere, lightning, cosmic rays, real HV over 1MV etc.

Peter


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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)
>
> 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.
>
>>>
>>> Thanks, I can live with that.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Gary