Re: Again: Rotating magnetic field


"Benj" <bjacoby@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sep 22, 9:10 am, xray4abc <lemhen...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

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<snip brilliant exposition> Waiting to hear your ideas!

As for me being "reasonable", If you follow the threads here, you'd
know" I'm:
1. Stooopid.
2. Uneducated.
3. Slept through High School Physics.
4. Need to read a Freshman Physics text.
5. Earn a living mopping floors at Burger King.
6. Given to insane rants.
7. Wear a "tinfoil" helmet.
8. Stooopid.

But I appreciate the vote of confidence! :-)

Oh yeah, Jefimenko is a tenured professor "gone bad" and is a loon as
well. Books are self-published but easily available on Amazon.com.

Benj...

I THINK I may have figured out why Jefimenko has gotten the BAD RAP. It
seems that for a fair amount of time he was interested in the analytic and
experimental side of FREE ENERGY! <GASP!>

Actually, he seems to have been interested in a couple of nearly-ignored EM
areas. The first is electrets, and the second is the possiblilty of deriving
(and storing) energy from the Earth's charge.

DISCLOSURE: I have not (yet) read his book re electrets (I will soon.) but
have read a *bit* about his experiments.

Here's what I have kinda pieced together. We all know that a capacitor is a
geometrically defined item. So, a sphere -- with the opposite plate at
infinity will have a capacitance defined by the sphere's diameter. And we
all know that a capacitor can accumulate charge. That charge will appear on
the outside surafce.

The Earth is a sphere. It has a geometrically defined capacitance. It also
has -- it appears -- a charge. The potential associated with that charge
increases as you go up.

Ben Franklin understood that. (The thing with the kite, the key and the
Leyden Jar -- remember?) Well, in the late 1700s, Ben Franklin apparently
built a static-electricity powered motor that actually turned. Not very much
power and it tended to kill the operator in lightning storms. But it DID
generate run.

Jefimenko apparently wondered if it might be possible that 20th century
technology might be a *bit* more able to do things than that technology
available to Ben Franklin. Apparently he built quite a number of prototypes
that "worked." But it appears that nothing worked well enough to provide a
practical means for tapping a pretty significant source of energy.

I can imagine, however, that the sight of a full professor climbing up and
down hilltops with kites, electrets and Rube Goldberg devices just possibly
*might* have caused some of his students and faculty to think that he had a
spanner in his sprockets.

Sounds kinda like Tesla to me!

Bill Miller





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