The Master Of Magnetics "Steven Mark"

[gn0stik]

So if I wanted to couple a coil of wire to the ionsephere/magnetisphere using the magnetic vector potential A, how would this be done ?

Bearing in mind that the earth appears to be a rotating armature and the magnetosphere is the stator of a generator or would that be a motor!

Well, according to Bill's stuff, you need to think of the ionosphere as one plate in a capacitor, and the ground as the other. The area between there is where we're drawing the power from.

Now you need to understand his resonant circuit stuff. Basically a circuit with resonant coil in it, is going to draw more power from the capacitor than one that doesnt.

If you think of the resonant coil as an antenna (steven marks does), then you need to think, how can I make this antenna "electrically larger", basically fool the local b field into thinking it's running into a HUGE antenna. Simple, you power it.

Powered antennas are nothing new, high gain antennas have been around for a long while. However if the antenna in question is resonant with the frequency you are trying to receive, as far as the wave is concerned, that's the place to dump all of it's energy. Or to paraphrase mannix, that's where all the local electrons will go to party with the ones the king sent down the wire.

This can be tested by putting a resonant circuit between the ground and antenna of a crystal radio. The power source in this case, would be a radio tower somewhere, instead of the magnetic field of the earth.

Once you have a proof of concept, scale your coils and frequencies to what you want to draw your power from. Afaik, it's just that simple. Of course there's a bunch of sciency stuff you need to know so you don't explode your coil and pump yourself full of copper shrapnel in the process. Or make sure it doesn't go all corona on you, so you can't turn it off.

This is where the frequency control circuitry comes in. This is where you want to create the "worse case scenario" If you are too close to the exact frequency, and don't know how to control the build up, bad things happen. So there are two things you can do, create some creative circuitry to control the build up, or keep it resonating just off the exact frequency. The main point is to make the circuit superpose, which is usually a no-no.

[gn0stik]

oops, double post

[Elvis Oswald]

Here's a good link to start thinking about antennas for schuman-range frequencies.

http://www.vlf.it/looptheo7/looptheo7.htm

The best way to power such a beast may be to make it part of a resonant LC circuit... if the LC circuit is resonant with the frequency of input, you will see some gains that I won't discuss here for fear of starting a flame war... but here's a couple of links - take you pick.

Series LC  http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_2/chpt_6/3.html

Parallel LC http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_2/chpt_6/2.html

As to getting the power out of the circuit, I would propose experimenting with a secondary winding, wound bifilar, and connected to another circuit.

With one of those resonant LC circuits (forgive me for not remembering which one) inductance on the coil will be near 0 and the coil behaves like capacitors in series... 
It makes sense then that the secondary would pick up potential this way... and it might not add load to the circuit as it does with induction (as with a regularly wound secondary when the power is passed inductively)

There's also another thread somewhere that mentions a "C-stack" - which is a cap with more than two plates.
Since other layers of the atmosphere are also plates in this capacitor... or circuit... that is out solar-system... this might be something to look at to predict how it all works.

[Elvis Oswald]

Oh yeah... putting all this in frame with the marks device... there was a discussion about his circuit being resonant with the frequency of magnetism... which would explain how the "kick" of the magnet approaching would start something that would grow...  *see the links above about resonant LC circuits*

[bob.diroto]

thanks gnostic, your summary of Bill's ideas has suddenly clicked with me. Going off to reread Bill's stuff again...