Tesla tower in Russia

[betoobig]

Hello to all... i´ve just come to this. Incredible, what ya think???6tcTwW2_WrU

[jc71]

Hi Betoobig,

Looks like CGI to me...

JC

[Hod8]

I noticed RT headlined this as 'Tesla towers'.
Tesla had nothing to do with this design (let's face it, more than one inventor in this planet's history has dealt with high-voltage). Unlike Tesla's inventions, this device does not depend on resonance for its operation but, rather, it's a direct-current device. Big difference.

Basically you charge-up a bunch of high-voltage capacitors in parallel and discharge them in series. The discharge lasts less than a millisecond and usually much shorter, a handful of microseconds. During this time the peak power (max rate of energy delivery) is enormous, but only for considerably less than a millisecond. Then you have to recharge the capacitors again before discharging it and so the average power is considerably less - 10-20 kW and quite often less; it depends on both the total energy-storage capacity and the repetition rate, and so these articles quoting enormous power isn't really saying much apart from its being clickbait. They're telling only part of the story when, in reality, the power consumed by these devices is comparable to that drawn by a dozen or so homes. Nothing to write home about, much less a headline.

Tesla was probably named in this piece because most high-voltage gear tends to look similar: rounded corners, long insulators, toroids, spheres, all of it to minimise arc-over, and Tesla is famous for his high-voltage inventions and so peeps usually associate such gear with Tesla. It's not symbolic of Tesla per se, but of high voltage, but try to tell that to RT and Huff Post. So much for truth in reporting; truth is usually the first casualty when advertising revenue is at stake.

The piece also mentions that the public is kept away, and for good reason: they keep the public away not out of secrecy (look, if the public is wanting to see this, it can hardly be a secret, no?), but for their safety. This device will bake your noodle so hard it'll turn you into turista oxide. What I find curious about this particular facility is that they didn't clear the land of brush and its concommittant fire hazard.

[grannyfranny100]

Hod8, thanks you for this explanation and welcome to our forum!

[betoobig]

29243JC71, you mean this?

Thanks so much Hod8... and wellcome!!

[Atlas]

Another drone footage:
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/High-Voltage_Impulse_Test_System.jpg/640px-High-Voltage_Impulse_Test_System.jpg
Marx generator used for testing high voltage power transmission components at TU Dresden, Germany

[Nick Matkin]

Oh. How very disappointing. I was hoping it was going to be an update on the Russian Leonid and Sergey Plekhanov brothers who were going to save the world last year by building an updated Tesla Wardenclyffe Tower. I wonder what happened to that interesting project?

The OP video appears to be nothing more than a high-voltage test facility as described here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiamDgEqBVA)by the very reliable (!) RT channel - same Russian TV channel that the OP video came from.

The facility is (was?) used for nothing more sinister than testing the effects of lightning strikes on aircraft, amongst other things. But they would say that wouldn't they?

Incidentally, I completely agree with Hod8's analysis (post 3) of the facility.

Nick

[Cidersomerset]

by coincidence I just watched David Ickes video cast
segment for this week and he talks briefly about Tessla.

The David Icke Videocast: The Tesla Factor

Saturday 14th March 2015 at 06:31 By David Icke

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[Hod8]

Hod8, thanks you for this explanation and welcome to our forum!

grannyfranny100 and betoobig, you are welcome and It's my pleasure to be here.

[Harley]

This video will give you a good idea of how it works and how it's used. The setup here is the same as the one in the OP, except that the one you see here is a typical Lab Testing Site whereas the one you see in the OP is a scaled-up setup used for free-field testing.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_FfqRDdiMo

During my first stint with Boeing (88-92) I was contracted as an Experimental RF & Microwave R&D Tech-A assigned to their Electromagnetics Department (http://www.boeing.com/assets/pdf/commercial/techsvcs/boeingtech/pdf/bts_brochures_scan.pdf), which was one of the highest demand facilities in the world at the time and included both Lab and Remote Site Free-Field facilities comparable to the one in the OP.

Personally I preferred working with EMC/EMI/EMP/HIRF and other fun RF stuff over the lightning. Not sure if it was because of the loud bang (thunder) or because I'd rather be slow-baked! :)

Thanks for the memories Hod8! :)

p.s. The R&D not only involved commercial airliners but also much classified work, which for me also included one two week all expense paid round trip to "Melbourne" travelling on a Tourist Visa (I departed Seattle one week AFTER I delivered all my test equipment and tools to SeaTac. See how easy it is?).

[betoobig]

"Oh. How very disappointing. I was hoping it was going to be an update on the Russian Leonid and Sergey Plekhanov brothers who were going to save the world last year by building an updated Tesla Wardenclyffe Tower. I wonder what happened to that interesting project?"
Nick Matkin i agree and also wonder what happened with this russian folks. Anyone on this?

Thanks Harley.

Juan

[Morbid]

details here:

http://globalenergytransmission.com

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