Re: Don Smith video

RON BRENNEN ( B25B@LCIA.COM )
Sat, 10 Jul 1999 23:54:44 -0400

Jerry W. Decker wrote:
>
> Hi Ron!
>
> Don Smith video eh? The working device eh?....save your money....unless
> he's made a breakthrough in the past couple of months, you won't get any
> 'secrets'...you know, Don is really a nice fellow but his set of coils
> wouldn't even light up a flourescent tube when we saw it and worked on
> it years ago.
>
> He still says his circuit works and one of his demos involved a $60
> inverter from Radio Shack, connected to 12 volt battery to run an
> oscillating fan...he said that is free energy....later demos involved
> some setup in a briefcase that lit a bulb but it was dimmer than normal.
>
> He said on stage, that if he tuned his coils to the same frequency as
> the 50,000 watt TV station in Denver (we were in Colorado Springs) he
> could completely swamp their signal...so how come it won't even light a
> fluorescent tube or an LED?
>
> Don said when he got back home to Houston, that he found a crimp that
> was loose and when he recrimped it, boom, he got power again....hmmm...
>
> I will give him this, he has some interesting ideas, claiming his coil
> circuit taps into the Van Allen belts.
> ------------
> excellent page with great images of the Van Allen belts;
>
> http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/earth/magnetic.html
> ------------
> http://lasp.colorado.edu/strv/vanallen_strv.html
>
> "The Earth's Van Allen Belts consists of highly energetic ionized
> paticles trapped in the Earth's geomagnetic fields. On the sunward side
> of the Earth, the geomagnetic fields are compressed by the Solar Wind
> while on the opposite side of the Earth, the geomagnetic fields extend
> to three Earth Radii.
>
> As a result, the geomagnetic field form an elongated cavity, known as
> the Chapman-Ferraro Cavity, around the Earth. Within this cavity, reside
> the Van Allen Radiation Belts. These radiation belts are composed of
> electrons with thousand eV energies, and protons with million eV
> energies."
> -----------
> http://ispec.scibernet.com/student-pages/magnetosphere/van_allen.text.html
>
> "Two distinct donut shaped belts were discovered that coincided with the
> inner magnetic field lines of the earth. The inner belt was found to be
> made up of high energy protons and the outer belt conatained high energy
> electrons.
>
> The inner belt of protons is produced when cosmic rays strike particles
> in the upper atmosphere. The outer belt is populated with electrons
> produced by cosmic rays and magnetospheric accelleration processes.
>
> The charged particles contained in the Van allen belts remain trapped
> along field lines of the earth. The particles bounce and drift in a
> spiral motion along the earth's magnetic field lines. As the particles
> approach the converging field lines near the poles they are reflected
> back towards the opposite pole. "
> ------------
> http://www.earthpulse.com/haarp/background.html
>
> "The Van Allen belts capture charged particles (protons, electrons and
> alpha particles) and these spiral along the magnetic force lines toward
> the polar regions where the force lines converge. They are reflected
> back and forth between the magnetic force lines near the poles.
>
> The lower Van Allen Belt is about 7700 km above the earth's surface, and
> the outer Van Allen Belt is about 51,500 km above the surface. According
> to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Van Allen belts are most intense
> along the equator, and effectively absent over the poles.
>
> They dip to 400 km over the South Atlantic Ocean, and are about 1,000 km
> high over the Central Pacific Ocean. In the lower Van Allen Belt, the
> proton intensity is about 20,000 particles with energy above 30 MeV per
> second per square centimeter.
>
> Electrons reach a maximum energy of 1 MeV, and their intensity has a
> maximum of 100 million per second per square centimeter. In the outer
> Belt, proton energy averages only 1 MeV. For compar-ison, most charged
> particles discharged in a nuclear explosion range between 0.3 and 3 MeV,
> while diagnostic medical X-ray has peak voltage around 0.5 MeV."
> ------------
> At the lecture he gave, he showed USGS topological maps with color
> enhanced high and low areas on the ground, the idea being to hook up an
> antenna power line on the highest areas (mountains/hills), run it down
> the side of a mountain and connect to the lowest points, which would let
> you tap the electrical gradient of the atmosphere. Tesla and others
> also have long ago written about tapping this gradient for practical
> power.
>
> Geez, I should whup up some videos....could probably make a fortune at
> it...<g>....there are some interesting tricks that appear to produce
> power but really don't....how do I know, because they won't power
> themselves or any load UNLESS they have an outside source such as AC or
> a battery.
>
> Too bad, Don means well but he just won't give up on his claims....his
> machines were $2,000 but I hear they are much more now...still don't
> work....that's why you don't hear about them in operation
> everywhere....and you can believe with all the people now on the Net who
> keep abreast of this stuff, such info would spread like wildfire as well
> as be written up in all the alt science magazines. Its your money so
> good luck!

Thanks a lot Jerry for the info. I guess I am mixed up. I thought
Don's video was about the Roswell engine
Regards,
Ron

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