Getting back to something that might lead to experiment...
I bought a copy of a book about Nikola Tesla by Anderson...it is
discussions between Tesla's lawyer and the 60 year old Tesla. Andrew
Michrowski brought it to my attention as providing a wealth of info that
is not generally known.
On page 62 is the following comment by Tesla;
Lawyer : Speaking of your not having perfectly undamped waves at that
time, you were referring to that character of circuit?
Tesla : Yes, but with another kind of circuit I could; of course. The
advantage of this apparatus was the delivering of energy AT SHORT
INTERVALS whereby one could increase activity, and with the scheme I was
able to perform all of those wonderful experiments which have been
reprinted from time to time in the technical papers. I would take energy
out of a circuit at rates of hundreds or thousands of horsepower. In
Colorado, I reached 18 million horsepower activities, but that was always
by this device: Energy stored in the condenser and discharged in an
INCONCEIVABLY SMALL INTERVAL OF TIME. You could not produce that
activity WITH an undamped wave. The DAMPED WAVE is of advantage because
it gives you, with a generator of 1 kilowatt, an activity of 2,000,
3,000, 4,000 or 5,000 kilowatts; whereas, if you have a continuous or
undamped wave, 1 kilowatt GIVES YOU ONLY WAVE ENERGY at the rate of 1
kilowatt AND NOTHING MORE. That is the reason why the system with a
quenched gap has become popular........I have refined this so that I have
been able to take energy OUT of engines by DRAWING ON THEIR MOMENTUM.
For instance, if the engine is of 200 horsepower, I take the energy out
for a MINUTE INTERVAL of time, at a rate of 5,000 or 6,000 horsepower,
then I STORE IT IN A CONDENSER and DISCHARGE the same at the rate of
several million horsepower. That is how these wonderful effects are
produced. The condenser is the most wonderful instrument, as I have
stated in my writings, because it ENABLES US TO ATTAIN GREATER ACTIVITIES
THAN ARE PRACTICAL WITH EXPLOSIVES. THERE IS NO LIMIT to the energy
which you can develop with a condenser. There IS A LIMIT to the energy
which you can develop with an explosive.
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This reminds me of a statement made by one of my electronics teachers,
that you can compress power by speeding up the collapse time of a square
wave. He had an interesting circuit, can't recall the details but when
you put in 1 volt into a 10:100 transformer, you got something like 1000
volts out...no one could figure out how it worked at which he explained
it. So these DAMPED waves produce phenomena...I want to read this as
overunity, but I don't think that's what he is saying....
Any comments???
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