Re: Tesla Statement
Bill McMurtry ( weber@powerup.com.au )
Wed, 18 Feb 1998 19:37:17 +1000
At 22:27 17/02/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Folks!
>
>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.
>----------------------------------------
>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???
>--
> Jerry W. Decker / jdecker@keelynet.com
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Hi Jerry and all,
Tesla sure was an interesting fellow, hey. Tesla is commenting on the
effect of storing energy, relatively slowly over time, and then releasing
this stored energy in a very short period of time.
This is what makes high voltage, high value capacitors so dangerous. A
trickle charge over a long period of time can be disruptively discharged
very quickly, with potentially explosive (and heart stopping) results. The
"horsepower" of the trickle charger can be very small while the
"horsepower" of the short duration discharge of this stored energy can be
huge.
Likewise, Tesla comments on taking energy out of engines in the same
manner, using the inertial capacity of the engine to deliver short duration
pulses of energy well above the average energy rating of the engine.
Tesla rightly comments that "undamped waves" (like mains 50/60 Hz) do not
provide this feature and that extracting energy from a device by way of
"undamped waves" will never allow access to energy levels more that the
maximum rating of the device. This is not the case with capacitive
discharge systems.
It does sound exciting when Tesla comments that a machine of 1 KW capacity
can deliver 2 or more KW of "activity". Of course Tesla does not mean that
the machine is running at over unity :)
Bill.