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Re: Tcoils/ free energy. Yes a coil CAN power something.
Reinhart -
I am sorry that I misunderstood your post. When I saw you mention "free
energy from the ionosphere" I took this to mean you believed Tesla was
thinking of this type of source for his world electric system.
Your test with the incandescent lamp is similar to the typical coiler
flourescent lamp test for Tesla coils. Do you think the 12 inch wire was
"receiving" Hertzian waves (Hertz's discovery) or Induced currents
(Faraday's discovery) to light the lamp? I have never heard a coiler mention
these two possibilities before regarding this test. In the past there has
been some mention of electrostatic fields and tiny electrostatic motors but
these are different phenomena and do not have sufficient current to light
your lamp.
John Couture
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At 06:13 PM 2/12/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Original Poster: "Reinhard Walter Buchner" <rw.buchner-at-verbund-dot-net>
>
>Hello John, Martin, all
>
>
>>Original Poster: "John H. Couture" <COUTUREJH-at-worldnet.att-dot-net>
>
>
>>Sorry Reinhard, but your uderstanding of what Tesla had in mind for his
>>world electric system is not correct. Tesla was an engineer and knew
>very
>>well that Hertz's waves could not be used for powering electrical
>motors,
>>lighting, etc. only for communication. Only currents can be used to
>transmit
>>large amounts of electrical energy without excessive transmitting
>losses.
>>
>>Electric energy can only be transmitted in two ways, by currents or by
>>electromagnetic radiation (Hertzian waves). It is important for coilers
>to
>>know the differences between these two electrical transmission methods.
>>Tesla tried very hard to make the electrical people of his day
>understand
>>these two methods. Even today, there is confusion over what these two
>>systems can do. The Tesla coil has the capability of transmitting
>magawatts
>>of power at ultra high voltages using the ionosphere as the current
>>conductor with very low transmitting losses. This cannot be done with
>>electromagnetic radiation.
>
>I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say.
>
>I wrote:
>>>The way I understand the free energy theme (not saying it is possible
>or
>>>not) is that Tesla was saying you could tap the ionosphere and use
>this
>>>energy to power anything imaginable. There are rumours (?!?) that
>Tesla
>>>built a car which used this "free energy". It had a top speed of
>100mph.
>>>No one has been able to reconstruct this device or the car. I do not
>know
>>>where the original went to (or if it ever really exsisted).
>
>
>This is what I have READ. I cannot say if this even holds a grit
>of truth or not. As far as I understood this, it had absolutely nothing
>to do with Tesla coils. Tesla (well, let me say the authorīs
>interpretations) was thinking of using energy already present in the
>ionosphere to power devices. However, I never said this was
>practical or even possible.
>
>I also wrote:
>>>The other idea Mike mentioned (powering something via a Tesla Coil)
>DOES
>>>INDEED WORK. I have tried this myself. Using a 200W OBIT powered TC I
>was
>>>able to light a 25W 220V bulb to almost full brilliance. One wire from
>the
>>>bulb was connected to ground and the other was simply a 12" long piece
>of
>>>wire in free air (my "reciever"). The distance from the coil to the
>antenna was
>>> about a foot. ................"
>
>AND THEN I wrote
>>>In my case 200W in and 25W out is, of course, highly inefficient."
>
>
>So, it is very clear, it is not possible to EFFICIENTLY power something
>with a Tesla coil, but for simple (electrically speaking) things (a
>light bulb) it DOES work. Trying to power an RF sensitive device
>(like a PC for example) would be a unrealistic task and doomed
>from the beginning.
>
>Sorry for any confusion and I hope my statement is a little clearer now.
>
>Coiler greets from germany,
>Reinhard