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From: snafu@ihlpm.UUCP (wallis)
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Subject: Re: perpetual motion
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Date: Wed, 20-Mar-85 17:45:11 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 20 17:45:11 1985
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> All these stories about miracle inventions being suppressed are usually
> just so much rot.  I've heard the same story for years about broadcast
> power and Tesla.  I have yet to see any evidence that it is other than
> a fairy tale.
> 
> --Lauren--

Actually, Tesla could and did braodcast power
through the air. He did it with a super-sized
Tesla coil, which when operating would send
lightening-like arcs for many feet.  The power
could be received miles away by a receiving
antenna.  What most people don't realize is that a
Tesla coil operates at radio frequeuency.  His
transmitting station was really just a radio
antenna - the arcs were caused by the fact that it
was not tuned to the proper frequency, along with
the tremendous power the coil generated.
Telsa could have gotten much higer efficiency with
tuned antennas, but the overall efficiency and
practicality of such a power distribution system
is much less than for conventional power distribution.




                              Dave Wallis
                           ihnp4!ihlpm!snafu
                       AT&T Network Systems, Inc.
                            (312) 510-6238