According to one source, several million lightning strokes occur daily
from an estimated 2000 storms worldwide, and the Earth is struck 100
times a second by lightning.
These huge electrical discharges cause impulses that resonate in the
Schumann cavity, that space between the earth and the ionosphere.
It should be possible to get the lightning strikes to occur in an
orderly manner by pumping a high voltage pulse into the Schumann cavity
at the resonant frequency or harmonics of that. In other words, if there
are 100 strikes per second, then a harmonic close to 100Hz should be
capable of entraining the lightning into harmonic phase lock. This is
similar to the way a crystal can control the frequency of an oscillator
circuit and cause otherwise erratic oscillations to become orderly.
Obviously you need a generator capable of producing some extremly high
voltage pulses which is grounded at one end and reaches into the
atmosphere at the other end. Once the oscillations from the lightning
are harmonized it should take very little additional energy to keep it
resonating. It should be possible to tap energy then from this orderly
discharging lightning by placing grounded radio receivers and strategic
positions. Specifically they would be most effective at the same
location as the primary pulse generator and also at geometric nodal
points around the globe where the spherical resonance standing waves
peak.
Most of the natural Schumann cavity resonances are mainly excited by
atmospheric sources, specifically lightning activity in continental
thunderstorms ocurring in the tropical belt around the world.
http://www-star.stanford.edu/~mfuelle/eicr.html
So this would be the ideal placement for the system, so that the more
powerful harmonics near the fundamental frequency can be tapped.
Hmm.. this sounds familiar.
-Gerald O'