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[darkspeed]

http://www.atis.org/peg/docs/peg2004/Petersen.pdf

see page 4

this explains the need for high self inductance

this explains the need for the cold transient

This explains why we do not use unmagnetized ferromagnetic cores for our coils and why the shock wave does not occur with these materials in the vicinity.

somewhere, far away, is the sound of a phone being answered:  several agents were just reassigned...LOL!

ferromagnetic cores = quicksand

thanks for posting that!

[sparks]

   Electrons have mass and momentum.  There are lots of them round these parts going every whicha way. Make them all go the same way and they grow into a herd of electrons or sometimes even like an avalanche of snow.  When you herd cattle you don't have to push each cow to the slaughterhouse you just exert control over their intrinsic energy and the cows do the rest of the work for you.   

Push an electrode up to 36kv positive (positive empty is more like it) and the other electrode becomes the entire earth.  The little devils start amoving from the earth where they were all just a bumpin about directly towards the empty electrode hole.  If ya keep the electrode hole open too long the buggers get all jammed up trying to get on through and the party just moved.  But if you stop a showin the hole they just keep wissin on by towards your collector.  Been there done that.  More ways to make juice than pulling wires through horseshoe like magnets fast.  I just use my tv to get me some high pulsed dc and attach the electric sparking wire that goes to the back of the tube to a piece of rusty wire shoved on through a plastic block.  Pretty white blue flames a comin offa the ends of the coily iron fencing wire.  Gots to be rusty though needs that there oxidation to make sure them there electrons keep on the path.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_electricity

[Grumpy]

A wonderful resource for lightning information can be found in the book All About Lightning by Martin A. Uman.  In it he wrote:

When lightning flashes, its current reaches its peak of 10,000 to 20,000 amps in a few millionths of a second. The current then decreases in around a thousandth of a second unless it's what's known as a continuing current. A continuing current can be around 100 amps and last for one or two tenths of a second. Strokes with a continuing current are called "hot" lightning because they start fires in wood, Uman explains. As he notes, to start wood burning, the electrical current has to be not only hot, but last long enough. The extra tenth or so of a second is enough to do this. Lightning without the continuing current doesn't last long enough to set wood on fire and is called "cold" lightning.

[otto]

Hello all,

@Bruce_TPU

sorry if it looks like Im forcing or pushing you but we are waiting.

Otto

[forest]

The question about TPU is : what is real energy source for it ? is that Earth static magnetic field or magnetic field fluctuations caused by cosmic particles ? We do not want to deplete Earth static magnetic field before finding it's source . If that field is induced by external source (Sun) then fine, but if it's not recoverable then we must find another way.

Maybe Bruce_TPU knows more....