[Ask the Gulch] Was the power source similar to Tesla's?
Posted by the117viper 10 years ago to Ask the Gulch
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There is a very small effect present that generates some voltage, but not any power to speak of.
Tesla's idea PUT the power into the air from some generating means, and you could tap into over some distance, but there were so many losses that its just not practical.
thing about Tesla. I read, years ago, maybe a-
bout 25 years ago, about somebody, I think may-
be over in Hanover, claiming to have invented such
a motor, and trying to get a patent. But I have
been thinking about something: plants process
energy from the sun with their green chlorophyll.
So maybe somebody could invent a motor using
chlorophyll. Just an idea of mine, I'm not a
scientist.
luddites and greens will intervene
One shouting 'jobs!'
The other 'logs!'
With a chorus of lawyers
Yipping like 'dogs'
Rand was many things, but an expert in science was not one of them.
Although a glamorous figure,Vanderbilt was not above a little surreptitious cronyism. Historians can't find any dirt of that kind on Hill.
And nobody trusted either bridge until:
a) Dagny & Rearden road a train across their bridge.
b) Carnegie led a circus elephant followed by a parade across his.
But I do know that Morgan (and others) bailed out US war debt. Mulligan financed the Gulch.
Admittedly, a much looser connection than Rearden/Carnegie.
The fictional Rearden Steel was in Philadelphia; The actual Carnegie Steel was in Pittsburgh.
Rearden created a new steel alloy; Carnegie industrialized a new method of making steel as mass-production.
Rearden created his metal specifically to make possible the building of a new type of bridge (which turned out to be a railroad bridge); Carnegie searched for and found a way to industrialize steel production in order to make possible the building of an actual railroad bridge.
Here’s the grain. Between vertical points in the atmosphere, say from desktop to chimney-top, there is a large voltage difference, just like there is between the terminals of a battery. The trouble is this “atmosphere battery” has a very large internal resistance. If you measure the voltage without drawing any current the voltage is large. But as soon as you begin to draw an appreciable current, the voltage drops to practically nothing.
You can run a very small motor – a corona motor, or corona discharge motor – designed to use very high voltage, very low current. The late Oleg Jefimenko worked on this idea and it’s described in the article “The Earth’s Atmosphere As a Source for Electric Power” which you can read at (pdf) http://ElectretScientific.com/author/...
See also “The Amazing Motor That Draws Power from the Air” at
http://rexresearch.com/jefimenko/jefi...
(the link there to Jefimenko’s article is broken).
Can you cite me the source for this assertion? As I said, I was not certain in either direction on the matter. Thank you.
"James Jerome Hill (September 16, 1838 – May 29, 1916), was a Canadian-American railroad executive. He was the chief executive officer of a family of lines headed by the Great Northern Railway, which served a substantial area of the Upper Midwest, the northern Great Plains, and Pacific Northwest. Because of the size of this region and the economic dominance exerted by the Hill lines, Hill became known during his lifetime as "The Empire Builder".
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Kay Ludlow=Katharine Hepburn
(Hepburn's ex husband was actually named Ludlow.)
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Gulch Fisherwoman=Rand herself...duh.
Will add more as they come to me..
However, I have always associated the following Atlas Shrugged characters with the following people:
Galt: Tesla (Except for Tesla giving up his patents to Westinghouse)
Rearden: Carnegie (right up to Carnegie's ultimate goal was to build a bridge)
Mulligan: Morgan
Nat Taggart: Vanderbilt
Wyatt: Rockefeller (except for Rockefeller being a deeply religious man)
If other gulchers would like to add to the list, or argue against it, please do.