Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!nsc!chongo From: chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon Noll) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Tesla power stations Message-ID: <2518@nsc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 23:37:48 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.2518 Posted: Mon Mar 25 23:37:48 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Mar-85 03:50:33 EST Reply-To: chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon Noll) Organization: Rational Swamiconductor, Sanivale Lines: 17 In article <181@ihlpm.UUCP> snafu@ihlpm.UUCP (wallis) writes: >Actually, Tesla could and did braodcast power >through the air. He did it with a super-sized >Tesla coil... 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 freq... His transmitting station >was really just a radio antenna... What would the environmental impact of such a station be? What about health and safty? Such a system would have a much greater loss than our current system. That loss translates into the need for much more fuel/generating ability. That in turn implies more pollution... I would think that it would do wonders for radios. ;-) Comments? chongo /\ee/\ -- no comment is a comment.