Posted on 10/05/2015 1:38:55 PM PDT by LibWhacker
What about a profit motive in selling a device able to tap into this apparently ubiquitous source? I know there are efforts afoot to provide local generating stations (micro-nuclear, fuel cells, etc.) so that individual homes can get off the grid. It is a national security issue, as far far as I am concerned, that we all must depend so much on those wires overhead and underground.
I saw a tesla coil in operation once. Cool stuff. It lit up a fluorescent lamp in the back rows of the audience. The lamp wasn't connected to anything — the person was holding it. The free end acted like an antenna and the person was grounding it to earth ground through their hand.
I have the plans to build a tesla coil too although I was never daring enough to do it. Pretty high voltages (requires a neon sign transformer) and that doesn't include the resonant part of the circuitry which is millions of volts (but at high freq).
I imagine that it might mess with (and maybe damage) all of the sensitive electronics that is in just about every device these days.
Forget about an EMP. Just fire up a high power tesla coil.
They must have overcome this fundamental issue. Because a logic device requires predictability (very low ppm error rates) and reliability and producibility across multiple logic gates on the same chip and across the process.
Even though it is a silicon process, the process tolerances have to be very tight.
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