In reply to William Beaty's message of Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:08:24 -0700 (PDT): Hi, [snip] >On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, [email protected] wrote: > >> BTW while we are on the topic, consider that it might be possible to use the >> lower Van Allen belt as the transmitter, allowing reception of free power. >> >> (The belt itself is of course powered by the solar wind). >> >> There should be a point where the strength of the Earth's magnetic field >> results >> in a cyclotron frequency that has a wavelength long enough to reach the >> Earth's >> surface, ensuring that we are within 1 wavelength of the "transmitter". >> I have for some time suspected that this concept may lie behind some of the >> stranger free energy devices. > >But that would be high-power RF which for some reason doesn't show up >on detectors built for that freq range.
No, the lower Van Allen belt contains protons, which are heavy and slow, and the Earth's field is pretty weak, so the frequency is actually in the neighborhood of hundreds of Hz, not high frequency RF. > >On the other hand, if the phenomenon produced a natural amplifer and not >an ionospheric oscillator, then N. Tesla's "World System" might supply far >more energy than was being broadcast by his transmitters. ...in fact 60 Hz is not out of the question as a cyclotron frequency. BTW the upper Van Allen belt contains primarily electrons, so the frequency is commensurately higher (however this makes the wavelength much shorter, which means that the distance from source to surface is many wavelengths, putting us in the "far field" rather than the "near field"). BTW2 Most of the energy is carried by the protons anyway, since both electrons and protons travel from the Sun at about the same speed (a cloud of protons leaving the Sun drags electrons along with it ensuring a neutral plasma). Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
