Plauson's converter

[nix85]

i googled and seen this guy has not been mentioned here

strangely, he's got a wiki, very uncommon for OU inventors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Plauson

i heard about him in great and recommended book in case you
didn't stumble upon it suppressed and incredible inventions.

quote from the book

"In the 1920's Henri Plauson of the Traum Research Laboratory in Hamburg. Germany devised a scheme for harnessing atmospheric electricity with tethered balloons, the metal surfaces of which were covered with spikes to collect pOSitive electric charges. Metal cables conducted the ions to earth. where special transformers converted the electrostatic energy into electromagnetic power. In 1922 he tested two balloons at a height of 1000 feet, and claimed to have obtained power equal to 81 kilowatthours per day . Plauson obtained USP # 1,540,998 for his invention in June, 1925."

81 kilowatthours per day, that's almost 4kw, not bad

from wiki

Hermann Plauson was an Estonian professor, engineer and inventor. Plauson investigated, among other things, the production of power based on atmospheric electricity.

Plauson was the director of the Fischer-Tropsch "Otto Traun Research Laboratories" in Hamburg, Germany during the Weimar Republic of the 1920s. He built on Nikola Tesla's idea for connecting machinery to the "wheelwork of nature". Plauson's patent no. 1540998 describe methods to convert alternating radiant static electricity into rectified continuous current pulses. His systems mainly involved needle & radium- coated electricity conducting balloons or aerostats which were connected to complex converting systems consisting of coils, capacitors, spark gaps etc. He developed an electrostatic generator called Plauson's converter. In 1920, Plauson published a research journal on the subject, titled "Production and Utilization of the Atmospheric Electricity" (Gr., Gewinnung und Verwertung der Atmosphärischen Elektrizität). A second, expanded edition of his journal was published later the same year. A copy of that edition is in the British Library at shelf mark 8754.b.36. A copy is also available in PDF-format, complete with Optical Character Recognition, through the books2ebooks service, here.

It is believed that Plauson was related to Gertrud Plauson (the exact relationship is unknown; she may have been his wife).

more here also http://www.rexresearch.com/plauson/plauson.htm

[lancaIV]

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?DB=EPODOC&II=0&ND=3&adjacent=true&locale=en_EP&FT=D&date=20101004&CC=PT&NR=104492A&KC=A

mosaics : https://servicosonline.inpi.justica.gov.pt/pesquisas/main/patentes.jsp?lang=PT


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https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?DB=EPODOC&II=1&ND=3&adjacent=true&locale=en_EP&FT=D&date=20101004&CC=PT&NR=104491A&KC=A

mosaics : https://servicosonline.inpi.justica.gov.pt/pesquisas/main/patentes.jsp?lang=PT




               Modalidade*:                                 Número do Processo*:

               national patent                              104491





as application and  improvement from Plauson his work = enrolled bifilar Tesla coils = capacitive windings


https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?DB=EPODOC&II=67&ND=3&adjacent=true&locale=en_EP&FT=D&date=19220710&CC=GB&NR=157263A&KC=A


and


https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?DB=EPODOC&II=68&ND=3&adjacent=true&locale=en_EP&FT=D&date=19220710&CC=GB&NR=157262A&KC=A

[nix85]

this is even more impressive, these guys suspended a "coarsely woven net" held by 2000 feet of iron wire 250 feet above a valley in alp mountains.

you can see the 4+ meter spark discharge below which is 2 megavolt each second
for 30min they say

[lancaIV]

Yes and makes part from such modern ideas : https://airhes.com/


or some decades back by Alvin Marks :


https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?DB=EPODOC&II=6&ND=3&adjacent=true&locale=en_EP&FT=D&date=19800603&CC=US&NR=4206396A&KC=A


Assuming a wind velocity of 10 m/sec, the wind power converted to electric power@2,3 is 0.45 kW/m@2. For example, such a screen 100 meters high and 1,000 meters long; or a screen area of 10@5 m@2 /km will generate an electric power output of 45 megawatts/km at about 100,000 volts DC.


If 10 such screens are spaced 1 km in depth, and extended in length of 100 km, 45,000 megawatts will be produced. These substantial amounts of electric power would be a great contribution to electric power requirements. The wind/electric power generator has relatively low investment and operating costs, and operates without pollution or detrimental environmental effects.

[nix85]

that is a mockery compared to what these guys managed to do almost 100 years ago

those near 3 megavolt sparks look like high current too, one a second is quote some energy