Re: Lightning Gun To Combat Terrorists - WHERE IS THE RETURN PATH???

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Original poster: Mddeming@xxxxxxx 

Hello Stork,

    Your example is irrelevant. As has been pointed out before, EM 
(Hertzian) WAVES do not require a return path. However, electrical 
discharge (current flow through ionized air) Does require one. The 
only weapon that uses EM Waves is the military's new riot control 
Microwave projector gun which "non-lethally" boils the water out of a 
protester's eyeballs.
    Not every patented weapon is worth producing. In the Jan. 1968 
issue of Science & Mechanics magazine there was reference to an 
acoustic cannon developed by Vladimir Gavreau (French patents Nos. 
437,460 and 131,551) which could "emulsify living tissue" at a range 
of 5 miles. It never went into production as "ricochet" was major problem.
     Likewise several saucer-shaped airplanes of the 1930s and 40s, 
and the "Spruce Goose". Many things are invented that have no real 
commercial/military value.

Matt D.

In a message dated 9/5/05 2:19:39 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:

Hello Ed,

My 9 vdc transistor radio is sitting on my wooden table happily
detecting passing EM wave energy and playing music from an AM station
transmitting 20 miles away.

Where is the return path?

Stork