What about Tesla’s Radiant Energy Receiver ? (easy way to get energy from space)

[Magluvin]

Oh look, a lil picture of Teets



Mags

[z.monkey]

I'm looking at Tesla's, Moray's and Paulson's Radiant Energy Receivers now.  If you build the thing on a small scale you will only receive radio level energy, its just information, very little signal.  Then, of course if you build it under a high tension line you might get megawatts, but it will burn up your tiny apparatus in an instant.  You have to build this thing on a scale that is relative to the frequency of power you want to handle.  Its all in the math...

The antenna needs to be suitable.  A tiny little wire isn't going to cut it.  Tesla's patent suggests using a plate, which we know as a planar antenna.  If you build it to resonate at 102.1 MHz then you can get a little tiny signal from a radio station.  But if you build it to resonate a frequency that is naturally occurring, and has a significant amplitude, then we're getting somewhere.  Like for instance the Earth resonates at the Schumann Resonance Frequency, which is 7.83 Hertz.  This is too low in frequency to be useful electrically, but just an example.  Also the Earth is a receiving body, and is like a load on our Solar Circuit.  The Sun is the Power Supply.  It is known that The Sun radiates Radio Frequency energy.  Both Tesla and Moray knew this.  If we pick a moderate frequency that The Sun radiates and then design the receiver to resonate at that specific frequency then we can make The Radiant Energy Receiver a real working device...

So the trick of the puzzle is what are those frequencies.  Has anyone ever come across a spectral analysis of radio frequency energy emitted from The Sun?  I've been looking for it, and have not found it.  I suspect that this information is prohibited.  All the documents that I have looked at state that most of The Suns energy is in the Light Frequency range, and totally sidesteps the Radio Spectrum, except to state that Solar Flares disrupt the Radio Spectrum.  I think our solution is there.  Somewhere between Ultrasonic and Low Frequency RF, under the AM Band, like around 100 KHz...

http://www.wavelengthcalculator.com/

So, to build a full wave planar antenna for a 100 KHz receiver we would need an isolated sheet of metal that is 3 Kilometers Square.  Not very practical.  A 1/4 wave antenna would be 0.75 Kilometers square.  OK, lets kick the frequency up to 500 KHz.  A full wave antenna would need to be 600 meters square, and a 1/4 wave antenna would be 150 meters square.  You can see where I am going with this.  Now lets kick the frequency to 10 MHz.  A full wave antenna is 30 Meters square and a 1/4 wave antenna would be 7.5 Meters square.  So, what I am trying to say here is you need to identify what frequency energy you are trying to catch, then design the receiver to fit that frequency.  Obviously trying to snatch 60 Hertz power signals is not going to be practical because it would require a 5000 Kilometer antenna.  This is why higher frequencies are needed for this type of device, and also why Tesla worked with high frequencies.  Both Tesla and Moray claimed to be able to receive Cosmic Rays and down convert them to Direct Current.  Cosmic Rays are around 1 THz (Terahertz).  A 1 THz (1000 GHz) antenna would be 300 Micrometers, a little easier to deal with, except that you need a microscope to see it...

All things are possible when enough brain power is applied...

[z.monkey]

Lets goto the hardware store...
We'll pick the biggest sheet of aluminum that they have, say 1 meter square.  We take the sheet of aluminum and bolt it to a 1.5 inch by 10 foot long PVC tube.  This will be our antenna.  If we consider this to be 1/4 wave antenna then our full wave size is 4 Meters Square.  Then we'll convert that to its equivalent frequency which is 75 MHz.  So our Home Depot Planar Antenna is good for snagging signals 75 Mhz and up.  We'll bolt the Antenna up in a high place, for me would be on top of my greenhouse.  I already have a mast there for my Weather Station.  Also, when your at the hardware store, get a 6 foot long piece of iron rebar.  We'll pound that into the ground for our ground connection.  Need a clamp for that also...

Now all we have to do is put together a circuit...

The most simple circuit is to attach the antenna and the ground on opposite sides of a big, high voltage cap.  Then use a switch to transfer the charge to another cap isolated by a diode...

[z.monkey]

The above circuit (a broadband receiver) will build up a charge until you flip the switch and then dump the charge so the diode doesn't need to be very fast.  But, if you build the receiver to oscillate then you are going to need fast diodes.  The 1N400X series is not fast enough to do radio frequencies.  This next circuit is going to oscillate because there is a Tank Circuit in it.  The Cap and the Inductor will alternately charge and discharge, and you can scavenge power with a rectifier diode.  This is almost the same thing as a radio receiver, except that we are storing the received energy rather than converting it to sound...

[z.monkey]

We can also use a transformer in the Tank Circuit so that we can step up or step down the received voltages...