Tesla’s plan to draw energy from our atmosphere involved generating many millions of volts. Now that we understand his theories, wouldn’t modern technology make it possible to do the same in a much more compact machine, perhaps even portable?
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More can be seen here but this man does not want his pictures copied...
Even without believing in all of Tesla’s theories, one can not deny the simple fact that many of its predictions are now accepted by modern science. They are explained in a different way, but still they are accepted scientific facts.
Tesla’s theories predict...
For example, Tesla’s theories predicted that the Earth would receive electromagnetic radiation from all directions. We have measured and mapped this radiation, but we call it cosmic background radiation (CBR) and believe it to be the remains of the “big bang”.
Tesla’s theories explained how the primary radiation (unknown to modern science) of the Sun cause radioactive decay and the internal heat of the Earth. Modern experiments have shown a certain correlation between the Sun’s activity and radioactive decay and the latter is also a major player in the explanation of the Earth’s internal heat.
We also know that atmospheric electricity exists. A wire suspended at some height collects this electricity at a rate depending on its height. A very slow rate, true, but it does.
So the only question remaining is: “can we increase this rate? And if so, how much?”
In my previous two posts (this one and this one) and also in some other earlier posts I have explained how Tesla thought that this could be done; how to “condense” electricity from the air around us. He believed it is a process that naturally occurs in lightning and so by copying this process we would gain access to a huge supply of energy.
Modern day lightning research has provided many interesting facts that we can not fully explain, but are easily explained with Tesla’s theories.
My research
My research of the last decade or so was not limited to studying Tesla’s writings and trying to understand what exactly he was saying. I also repeated many of his experiments so that I could see what he must have seen, and more than that, with the aid of modern equipment I could get more information out of these experiments. It is not trying to prove which theory is right, because Tesla’s theory can be wrong but his machine may still work. And that is the point on which my research focusses; did Nikola Tesla have a source of clean and abundant energy? And up until now everything points in the direction that he did.
blowing off some steem... ;)
Some time ago a campaign was started with the name “Let’s build a goddamn Tesla museum”. My question is WHY? Why should we build a museum for someone whose work we have buried and whose theories we do not want to hear? WHY?
The museum would only lock up his work even further, put it further into the past, put it on display as a misguided scientist, for now we all know better.
WHY not blow the dust off of his work and verify his points. There is so much to gain!
We should not build a goddamn Tesla museum! We should build a goddamn Tesla laboratory!
(enough cursing for now, let me take a deep breath….)
Back to our question…
Can we increase the rate at which we can collect atmospheric electricity? As mentioned earlier, all evidence points towards “yes”, but it is still uncertain if that would also mean an increase in energy. Of course it is only interesting if the machine would consume less power than it would make available.
In order to “condense” this electricity, to use Tesla’s terminology, a slow rise of pressure followed by a sharp drop should do the trick. During the rise the medium would get hotter, but by doing so slowly we give it time to radiate this heat away. The sharp drop will then cool the medium.
In my experiments both a positive and a negative high voltage behave like a compressed medium of some sort. Thus in an RF wave we have alternating compressed and uncompressed areas and the amplitude of the wave is a measure for this compression. So we need to slowly rise this amplitude and follow that with a sharp drop. That is called a saw-tooth amplitude modulation.
If we feed such a signal to a tesla coil an amazing thing happens. The streamers get much longer and sword like in shape. Streamers can easily get about 20 times longer than without this modulation.
This reminds me of lightning, the voltages we see in lightning would theoretically only suffice for 20 to 80 meter long discharges, but for some reason they get much longer than that.
So here we are, with a trick out of Tesla’s theories we manage to reproduce an unexplained feat of lightning. Could this be the key to downscaling Wardenclyffe?
Help?
By upvoting and sharing this post as far and wide as possible, you are helping me and my research. If you have the skills to build a tesla coil with a saw-tooth AM, I encourage you to do so and add the extras that would make it a miniature magnifying transmitter. I will publish the details on how to do so at a later date. Demand may prioritize my schedule… ;)