Re: Tesla's Wireless Power Transmission ==> was Re: Non-techQuestion

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Tesla's Wireless Power Transmission ==> was Re: Non-techQuestion
From: "Dan Kunkel" <kunk77-at-juno-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 16:58:30 -0600
Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

Noah,

I believe the reason Tesla used such a large topload is a two fold
answer.

First...it lowered the resonant frequency of the coil down to the earth's
resonant frequency.

Second...he did not tune his "transmitting" coils for spark. He would put
a large topload capacitance on his coils so that no spark would be able
to break out (re-tuning the primary of course to the new freq). What this
did was force massive amounts of current into the ground. In fact, about
90% of the coils energy was pumped into the ground while only 10% was
radiated out into the atmosphere via the topload. When you tune for
spark, it is the opposite, 90% of the energy is used for the spark. These
figures are round, and are different for every coil.

What I want to know is, did he plan to use these resonant ground currents
in the earth AND excite the ionisphere (or the Schuman cavity as wer call
it today)?

Dan
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