RE: Tesla's Magnifying Transmitter - Part 5: Communication and navigation
A MT needs to generate over a million volts and that sets the lower limits for size and power. I could generate about 1.5 MV with roughly 2.5 KW, I think that is about the absolute minimum requirement. The 1.5 MV needs a height of at least 6 m.
An optimal number of MTs? ... I really don't know. What would define "optimal"? At some point, when MT's are draining atmospheric electricity, we will not have lightning storms anymore. That may be a good sign to stop building.
I think you can disrupt frequency bands, just like you can in atmospheric transmissions.
The MT's will provide power for the entire world, it can be sent to selective receivers or to "the general public". In the latter case you (anyone with enough resources) can build a MT and have it started by another, existing one. From that moment on it will produce power.
Yes, you can build a powered transceiver. From my experiments and my interpretation of Tesla's work you will need at least 800W to send signals across the world.
Yes, you will need a higher working frequency for your coils, according to Tesla the best range is 30KHz-35KHz, but as I understand that would give you a too small bandwidth for audio. I have not really spend much time on understanding the ins and outs of the communication scheme, I'm afraid, my focus was power generation.
This is such excellent and encouraging information. While I am not disinterested in the power possibilities, I am more immediately curious about communication.
I am quite excited to hear that a powered transceiver is likely to be a real possibility, and with less than 1Kw!
My thoughts (which I believe many may share) reflect some concern that the "powers that be" might at some point seek to disrupt the internet. However, with independent network nodes "popping up" anywhere, that would become impossible.
It however sounds as though the bandwidth would be extremely limited? Actually, 30KHz-35KHz would support speech, but not much more. We have become quite used to and dependent upon an internet with a very high bandwidth to each subscriber. But even so, it would be of great interest to me to see if messages might be sent anywhere on the globe...
Thanks again for your feedback.