In reply to John Berry's message of Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:34:57 +1200: Hi, [snip] >Look into Earl Ammann if your interested in distant transmission of >electrical energy. [snip] I did, and combined this with Tesla to come up with the following based on the MIT work. Most of the kinetic energy in the Solar wind is carried by protons. When these interact with the Earth's magnetic field they produce Synchrotron radiation. However because of the large mass of the protons and the weakness of the Earth's magnetic field the frequency generated is low. For a local magnetic field strength of 0.1 gauss, the frequency is about 150 Hz. This increases up to about 1 kHz at field strengths up to at most 0.65 gauss.
Now the wavelength of a 1 kHz wave is 300 km. For 150 Hz this is 2000 km. Since 2000 km is far enough (straight up) to encompass some of those trapped protons, any tuned receiver would be within 1 wavelength, and hence amenable to the MIT process. IOW the protons in the Solar wind supply the power, and we pick it up with a tank circuit tuned to the matching frequency. This may be what many free energy claims were based on, as well as some of Tesla's work. (This may coincidentally also be the source of purported free energy in Joseph Newman's motor, which contains a huge coil. He could be running on a sub-harmonic.) Regards, Robin van Spaandonk The shrub is a plant.
