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On 8/17/20 2:54 PM, Gary Lau wrote:
Folks,
Discussion of actual wireless power transmission, tangentially relevant to
the TCML focus on building TC's, is permissible if limited to real
physics. We're getting dangerously close to proposing unfounded mechanisms
to support Mr Tesla's claims and dreams of efficiently broadcasting
practical amounts of power with minimal losses. The moderators have a
diminishing tolerance for inventing physics to support the dreams of the
True Believers. Please don't test us.
Gary Lau, TCML Co-Moderator
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I'll add to this that nice rational discussions are great - There's
always a new way to look at the phenomena that might have good
conceptual value. You may come up with a way to describe a behavior
that fits the observed data, and that might be a decent model, or you
might have just got lucky (the 1/4 wavelength of wire on the
secondary<grin>)..
But by running it out to the list, you've got quite a population willing
to shoot at it and poke holes in a nice way (at least the moderators try
to keep the conversation "nice"). And quite frankly, most of us (if not
all) are willing to take the hit and go back and figure out how to
change it.
I think one of the most useful things that came out of the list was the
whole development of understanding the behavior of this list as a
combination of lumped components, with uneven electric fields.
And some real good experimental work to debunk some long held "truisms"
Modern modeling programs like JavaTC greatly benefit from this.
(and I confess, I still use a variant of Ed Sonderman's spreadsheet from
1997 for "rough and ready" planning)