Resonnant circuits in cascade.

[Elvis Oswald]

So I might answer my own question here... with the LC circuit above... the coil would not interact with a secondary coil.  So that's out...

There should be *some* way of using that power.

[thrival]

Elvis:

I'm going to go off on a tangent a bit to answer your question. Textbooks are  written
with a very negative slant. It's not that they lie outright, but phrase things in a way so
you only see half the truth and therefore don't try. Oscillations don't dampen if they are
constantly fed! And a parallel tank has such high input impedance, the amount of power
in is very small compared to the output. Will it consume some power to make it work?
Of course it will.

There seems to be a bunch of degreed experts who assert free energy must come from
nothing, no input at all. They are quite rigorous and anal 'purists.' But free energy is simply
more energy out than we put in over time. Try to do it their way will never happen, but
use what's in front of you, and the truth set you free.

[Elvis Oswald]

That is true - a parallel LC circuit's impedance will reach infinity if the input is at the same resonant frequency.  So does that mean it will stop drawing power from the input?

So if you had an antenna tuned to the schuman resonance... and you were receiving a small amount of power... wouldn't you want to use a series LC circuit to acheive maximum output from that small source?
Wouldn't it be constantly driving the circuit?

How would you then apply that power to use?

[thrival]

Elvis:

There's a problem trying to predict what should or will happen from what the books
say. They seldom agree or give you all the facts, like there's a purple elephant in the
room that no one wants to talk about. For example, when we're told input impedance
reaches infinity, does that mean our circuit refuses all power we give it, even while
generating tremendous currents within itself? If yes, that can be used to advantage.
Isn't that what we want? High outputs with negligible inputs? So who's complaining?!

Filter networks are NOT the way I'd arrange it. They have their place but not for
what we're doing. Also I see circuits people design, grounded in all sorts of ways.
Why would we want to ground anything??? that's sending our energy down a
bottomless hole. Cascading is the way.

The tank coil can also be a primary winding to an iron or air core transformer. The
secondary can be part of or lead to a parallel or series tank. Tesla coils use the latter,
however I like parallel tanks for their large outputs to inputs. In fact I would cascade
them just like Robert suggests. Sometimes it takes a newbie to see things differently
from the way one has been trained. There's more than one way to do anything
and I find it amazing so few have experimented with or written about resonance
from the power amplification perspective. Resonant tanks amplify power, that's a
fact. They are not transformers but can be combined with them. Just because one
person isn't creative or clever enough to arrange his circuit correctly doesn't make a
thing impossible. You could probably build one tuned to the schuman frequency or
any other your heart desires. To say that all that energy is NOT available to you,
is ridiculous. Or to put it another way, why would the methernitha community
employ resonance in their device, if not to step up the gain? You don't need the
wheel, just the resonant tank(s). Use the output any way you choose.

[Elvis Oswald]

I agree with you 100%    I have taken all text with a "grain of salt" - that's for sure.

I am new to all of this.  I'm a network engineer... not an EE.    I started looking at alternative fuels and after understanding the design of the internal combustion motor - I realized that it was not worth the steel it's made of.  The rotary or the "quasi-turbine" design is more efficient.  Looking into that, I discovered Tesla and that's when I realized that electricity from the atmosphere was going to be the answer.

I've been studying for a couple of months now... originally I thought it was best to only study Tesla... to know only what he knew and to avoid anything developed after him... I figure its more than likely that there has been an effort to pollute the field of study, so to speak.
But I couldn't talk to EEs without understanding more about what they are taught... and so now I am trying to get it all in my head and work out the best direction to proceed in... THEN I will start experimenting.  That is the best way, I think.

Thanks for the help.  I am about at the point of being convinced that building an antenna/ground with a tank circuit(s) to amplify that little potential into real power is worthy of time and money.