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

Hi Fr Tom,

> Original Poster: "Thomas McGahee" <tom_mcgahee-at-sigmais-dot-com> 
> 
> My response to Bill Wysock is:
> RIGHT ON!
> 
> For those who do not agree, please take the time to read Tesla's
> OWN account of what he was trying to achieve. It can be found in
> the book "Nikola Tesla On His Work With Alternating Currents and
> Their Application to Wireless Telegraphy, Telephony, and
> Transmission Of Power" Edited by Leland I. Anderson, published
> by Sun Publishing, Denver Colorado. I purchased my copy from the
> Tesla Book Company, PO Box 121873 Chula Vista, CA  91912 phone number
> 1-800-393-2056. The book was published in 1992 and is about 200 pages
> long.
> 
> This book is not ABOUT Tesla: It is a TRANSCRIPT of a pre-hearing
> interview between Tesla and his legal counsel in 1916. Read it and you
> will see that Tesla was ADAMANT about his method of power transmission
> NOT being based on Hertzian waves.
> 
> The astute student of Tesla's notes and writings and articles and
> patents will see that Tesla was absolutely convinced that he had
> discovered something of great value that would allow him to transmit
> large quantities of power with little loss. 

Being convinced about something and proving it are two different 
things. I expect proof will be forthcoming if he was correct. 

> Tesla's giant tower at Wardenclyffe was NOT designed to hurl
> lightning. In fact he went to a great deal of trouble to make sure
> he could generate tremendous electrical pressures WITHOUT having
> streamers. The topload on the coil was designed to suppress streamers
> and allow him to build up very high electrical pressures. Take a look
> at his ground system! He put as much work into the ground system
> as he did into the topload. It was humongous! The ground system
> was his great FOOTHOLD so that with the giant topload he could
> create a mighty PUSH into the atmosphere. Look at his patents on
> conducting immense currents using rarified gas as the conductor.
> Look at his patents on the system of 4 tuned circuits. Read what
> he himself said. When you read Anderson's book you are struck by the
> fact that Tesla considered radio transmissions mere child's play.
> Time and again he harks on the fact that engineers have greatly
> misunderstood what it is he was really trying to do, and how he was
> going to do it.

I read about conduction in gases etc. in Tesla's notes. But there 
seem to be two ideas here; one is to use the earth as a resonator of 
sorts and the other is to use the upper atmosphere. It seems to be 
something of a contradiction to be talking about suppressing sparks 
while speaking of conducting gases in the same breath.
         I agree he was not talking about radiated power - his 
equipment would have been the worse possible design for that mode 
of transmission (but the best for his planned mode).
  
> It is a shame that he was never allowed to give his ideas on power
> transmission a full-scale test. As a result many people dismiss
> his ideas on this subject as the futile ravings of a man who was
> very smart about many things, but totally wrong about power
> transmission.
> 
> Recently some scientists have been re-discovering
> some of the bits and pieces of this particular puzzle. I believe
> that in the end Tesla will be vindicated in his hunch that he had
> discovered something of great utility and importance. I just
> hope that he gets the proper credit for having discovered it all
> first, at the turn of the last century...

I've no doubt he will if his ideas prove to be correct.

Regards,
Malcolm