| Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003
00:40:15 -0500
Dear Bob,
Yes, there is a well-known
high voltage between the electrosphere and the earth's surface.
It increases by some 200 to
300 volts per meter when you go up from the ground. One can easily erect
an elevated wire to get 1,000 or more volts.
During WW II, our troops in
the jungles of the pacific found that the trees show this voltage gain
with height. So they actually put the antenna connection wire into the
trees (up a ways) and used the trees as a sort of "high voltage
antenna".
Worked nicely, I'm told by
some of the old timers who were there. Probably could Google it off the
Web, because someone is almost certain to have written about it.
For a power system, there
isn't much current with the high voltage one gets from such an antenna.
However, it is possible to use circuits in an "inverted" manner, such
that (at least momentarily) the current is pinned and essentially zero.
By switching the high voltage onto pinned Drude electrons, one
potentializes them freely. In physics, gauge freedom guarantees that one
can change the potential and potential energy of a system freely and at
will., and changing the VOLTAGE ONLY is just asymmetrical regauging.
What one looks at is the capacitance of the circuit, but in "pinned
Drude charges" state momentarily. That way applying voltage is just pure
energy transfer; there is no "power" and no "work" because there is no
current.
Once the energy is
transferred, then the source (the hi voltage antenna) is switched away,
and the pinned system converted into the standard closed loop circuit.
One puts in diodes which force the direction of current only in the
direction desired. The system then discharges its free energy in the
load, power it for a bit. By reiterating the cycle, one powers the load
mostly by regauging, and taking free electrical energy from the
atmospheric potential between the ground and the electrosphere.
At least a few of the very
older inventors made systems such as that, back in the old days about
the turn of the century at 1900 or so. Then we got onto "modern
circuits" and all that was lost.
Best wishes,
Tom Bearden
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