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Subject: Is it possible to transfer power through Electrostatic conduction ?

Date: Mon Feb 1 10:26:31 2010
Posted by Sharon
Grade level: 10-12 School: Benjamin Franklin High School
City: New Orleans State/Province: Louisiana Country: USA
Area of science: Physics
ID: 1265045191.Ph
Message:

Dear Sir,

I am intrested in the wirless power transmmsion concept of Nikola Tesla, Earth 
batteries and Electrostatic generators. If we analyse his Patent, number 
645.576: System of Transmission of Electrical Energy, you may also check it 
here please :
http://www.keelynet.com/tesla/00645576.pdf . We can see many differences with 
today’s radio techniques. Tesla believed that radio was conduction, not 
radiation, his radio was grounded rather than aerial. Rather than a radiating 
antenna, he employed an aerial capacity.
According the scientist the earth (ground) is the positive plate of a 
capacitor where the ionosphere the positive layer builds. So, there are 
negative charges which are ions and electrons in the ground, they are free. 
Tesla may used these “free charges” in his wireless power transmission. If so, 
can we assume the ground as a kind of “cold plasma” which contains ions ? Can 
the ground be assumed as a “charge pool” ? Why ?
Of course, the same principle should be also valid for the cold iosnosphere 
plasma.

2- Nikola Tesla used a flat spiral coil in his secondary circuit, this coil is 
activated by the primary coil. The primary circuit is represented in the 
drawing by the generator symbol. The first circuit is working according the 
rules of electrodynamics, a potential difference creates an electron flow in 
the primary coil, the magnetic field induced by the electrons in the primary 
coil, activates (oscillate) the free charges between the aearial capacity and 
ground (Secondary circuit). Is that possible, while the secondary circuit 
which is grounded seems to be an electrostatic system, while the free charges 
which are not bound of the ground plasma are flowing at the surface of the 
coil, which seems not to be electrodynamic in its nature ?
Did Nikola Tesla use the principles of Electrostatic induction during his 
signal transmission ?

Many thanks,
Sharon


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