Tesla chose his site atop a plateau in Colorado Springs, then a virtual pioneer town. At a height of 6000 feet above sea level, the site gave him the required elevation. Here also was sufficient isolation from populations. Placed in solid contact with the plateau tablerock. Tesla chose this geologically deep natural conductor to permit an unhindered downrush of aether, a secret he carried with him. Anticipating the undreamed, he moved all of his more mobile components to this site in May 1899, and began construction. His exertions were astounding. Once the station was complete, several tests would be necessarily conducted to affirm the circuit parameters in the geological site. The station parameters were built on what now appears to be a gigantic scale. The large housing structure was made of wooden beams, of dimensions nearly 100 feet on each side. 'ITie roof was nearly as high, reaching 80 feet, having a large sliding section for the elevation of various terminals and capacity surfaces (see figure).
The building was held up with large buttresses. Within this structure were the components of genius. The primary and secondary of the largest Tesla
Transformer ever built in history were wound, one above the other, upon an immense cylindrical wall of wooden construction, some 75 feet in diameter and 10 feet in height. An extra coil was poised in the very center of this cylindrical form, elevated on a stand several feet above the flooring. This extra coil had 75 vddely spaced wire turns, being wound on a skeletal wooden cylinder. This extra coil was some 10 feet in diameter and 10 feet in height The elevated capacity terminal, a large wooden ball covered in tinfoil, was connected to this extra coil by a thick cable. Through the roof window, this cable rose to a height of 200 feet fixed to a tall wooden mast.
Tesla constructed a very ingenious capacitor bank, made of large water bottles. Salt water was poured into each to a fixed height connector rods fitted into the same. The entire assembly of jars were placed in a large tub of tinfoil, also filled with salt water to a depth of a foot or more. This electrolytic assemblage provided a formidable storage capacity, and was easily modified as well as cost-efficient Power was provided by a large Westinghouse transformer. This power was used to drive a high voltage dynamo, providing some 50,000 volts DC. The dynamo was connected to a motor driven spark disrupter which provided a preliminary pulsation rate. Through choke coils, this preliminary pulsing current was applied to a large magnetic disrupter. This in turn was applied to the capacitor bank and the large primary coil (see figure).
The first step in his process involved an initiatory “jumphstart”. When the switch was closed, aetheric shockwave energy passed over the secondary, and flowed up into the elevated terminal. Transformed into the calculated potential of 100,000,000 volts lasting for the calculated (0.0062 milliseconds), aether poured from space into the station during the interval. Each successive im-puke was followed by its short but specific rest period, and the process was repeated for as long a time as deemed necessary. Some 150,000 groups of apphed impulses and rest periods made up each second’s worth of initiation time. In the absence of discernible information from the notes which Tesla left us, this critical “rest period” is difficult to ascertain. Nevertheless it is an important lost piece of information necessary to the reestablishment of any such large-scale station.
The aerial terminal was so designed to absorb aether and discharge electrons in opposed cycles. The incoming aether energy would be handled by the various within the station, side branching circuits made to appropriate the pure pulsing energy, while converting it into various pulse rates for rebroadcast. The initiatory impulse woiJd start the avalanche, the space aether flowing with gradually increasing intensity. Tesla would control and matximize the volumes of incoming aether until the flow becaune “permanent”. At first Tesla had difficulty balancing and establishing proper parameters. Eventually, however, the conditions which originally desired became a routine process. Tesla planned to train his operators in this art, having accepted several personnel to this end. One, Fritz Lowenstein, later was found to be a “spy” for one of his financial enemies. Tesla discovered this when several mysterious “accidents” occurred in the Colorado Springs Station.
During this testing period, Tesla encountered several phenomena for which he was not totally prepared or forearmed. In small preliminary tests, the primary aetheric pulsation produced “stationary waves”, fountains of white streamers which appeared instantly and which also grew to large proportions with time all around the activation site. Tesla mentioned the “standing waves” only when referring to the attendant slow electron waves, manufactured through the bombarding action of aether in the earth. The different names of each waveform related different processes, unforeseen phase interferences which Tesla encountered during his tests at the Experimental Station in Colorado.
Problematic to the action of his system, these successive waveforms thus appeared at the station out of phase. Now, both aether waves and electron waves came back to their sourcepoint, the fact that Tesla quizzically mentioned to the press. When stating that “the earth behaves as a conductor of limited extent”, he was not referring to the discovery that the earth can store electricity! He already knew this. He was referring to the problem of destructive interference, one of phasing among two contrary and mutually opposed wave species. This behavior of the “earth as a conductor of limited extent” was not a thrilling fact to TeslcU It was an annoying problem. He would have preferred a conductor of infinite extent, one in which all received aether power could be set free, along with the attendant contaminating electrons. Because the earth held onto the electrons so tenaciously, there were literal repercussions at the station which taxed his intellect far too much for his own pleasure.
Here was the situation. iEther waves flowed with superluminal velocity fi-om the station and into the earth proper. These were neutral pressure waves whose instantaneous movement through the ground was slightly slowed by resistance process. A continual lagging backflow of aether “pressure echoes” appeared at the station with unprecedented force. The apphcation of aether to the ground brought a fountain-like condition to the station area. In the absence of appropriate elevated capacity, aether streams stood out of the ground vertically. These were the “stationary waves” of which Tesla so often delighted to speak. These were the powerfiil aetheric emanations which offered humanity a new means for obtaining limitless power from outer space, and for rebroadcasting the same through the ground to any needed point. vEther waves are neutral pressures of enormous energetic potential. Opposed to the desired neutral aether pressure waves, there were those slow alternating electron waves. Electrons, developed by aether bombardment in the rocky crustal matter at the station, choked the otherwise continuous movement of aether pulses. But the aerial release of these from the system induced slow subluminal electrical waves throughout the earth. The very presence of these completely interfered with the system. Fast downward aether pressure pulses were met by slow rising alternating electrical waves. The opposed pulsation of fast aether and slow alternating electron waves would destructively interfere with one another.
Tesla referred to the aetheric phenomenon as “stationary waves”. He referred to the electronic phenomenon as “standing waves”. Stationary waves, instantaneous whitefire fountains. Standing waves, slow electron waves. Stationary waves occur in incompressible fluids. /Ether is incompressible. Stationary waves are the charge-neutral products of pressured fluids in fixed conductors. Stationary waves pulsate in a unidirectional manner. Standing waves are the result of alternating compressions and rarefactions, characteristic of electron currents in fixed conductors. Tesla knew that these two different waves could react, one upon another, in restricted ways. You will remember that he strove to separate aether streams from electrons. Electrons quenched aether streams by encapsulating and pinching them off. So long as electrons contaminated aether streams, only the gross electrons would dominate. Also, the concentrated aetheric streams actually manufactured electrons. Striking into already manufactured electron streams would simply intensify the condensation process. A veritable electron avalanche would follow, the process so poised as to interfere destructively. Unless a proper relationship could be arranged between the two energy forms, one could not expect a highly efficient acquisition of aether power.
The difference between these two waveforms had been critical for Tesla to comprehend and rearrange. Only a Tesla could have bcdamce the two contrary actions. It was ironically the slower electron waves which determined the tempo at which the system would operate, since these alterations would keep appearing long after the aether flow had begun its resonant rise. Tesla now cadculated and readjusted the impulse-rest intervals so that the two opposed wave species would never destructively interfere. Timing was the critical key. Each would glide past the other undisturbed and non-interfering.
The first full-scale tests of this experimental station took place throughout the month of July 1899. Tesla found that each groundward pulsation of the Transmitter brought such a volume of space sether down through the system that it was difficult to control the exchange process. Once the aetheric draft had been successfully induced, charge formation could actually be utilized to slow and moderate the downward growing flood. Tesla always measured increased electron surges in his Transmitters. His aerial terminal bought in an unprecedented electron avalanche, measuring some 1100 amperes of the current. Indirectly this was a measure of aether flow, for it was aether which manufactured the electrons. This current increase demonstrated the continuous formation of charge in the metallic conductors of the Transmitter, the result of aetheric bombardments through the system. It was just as he had foreseen. This central problem which he encountered, and which he finally solved, became the usable solution to his first fears. The formation of electrical charges was being used now to slow the aether flow, which otherwise would continue growing out of control (see figure).
The Transmitter operated as an incredible Magnifier of aether. Tesla noted with fascination the fact that pulsations in the aetheric downpour seemed to formed a zone of ever increasing power. In this zone, successive aether pulses
Superimposed in a manner which was not usual. The growth characteristic of these pulsations provided an ever increasing supply, with the local zone sur-roxmding the Transmitter becoming a site of strange effects. He found it indeed possible to disengage the Trainsmitter from the electrical power source after only a few seconds of application time, the proof encrypted and preserved in his cunningly captioned photographs.
Tesla spoke of two different waveforms, “stationary waves” and “standing waves”, when discussing the effects which his Magnifying Transmitter had produced in the earth. The “standing waves” related to the consequences of alternating charge waves stimulated by the successive aerial release of manufactured electrons. The “stationary waves” were wonderful phenomena of ground conducted asther currents. Once the stream began flowing through his system, magnification processes would draw in an ever increasing aether supply. The more “opened” the system became, the more aether would flow. He could moderate this aether avalanche with certain drive coils which slowed the rest intervals during which electrons were released. In this was, the aether would be limited from “going critical”.
The avalanche magnification factor would have to be strictly controlled by the station operator. Because aether was rarefied in the space above and airound the station, a condition brought aibout by the downward pumping action, a powerful and dangerous response would result throughout the incoming stream. Working its way back out into space, the pulsations would force the supply streams to flow with greater force into the Transmitter. Because aether responds to simple pressure laws, the Transmitter would ultimately summon responses from its very source. A strange form of communication would this be possible between two very distant points, a communications technique which Tesla mentioned.
The stationary wave was an effect unknown in electrical science. It was unknown because electricity is a bipolar manifestation. yEther, being a neutral Radiant Energy, has more in common with gases. Densified aether streams were more like fluids. Stationary waves were a familiar feature in fluidics, where the application of streams to enclosed containers brought immense fountainlike effects. Tesla played with the science critics w'hen patenting an apparently banal design for a water fountain. In this ovoid shaped system, Tesla encrypted his stationary wave secrets. Years later, Victor Schauberger developed egg-shaped vessels into which streams of water were introduced at high pressure. The result cavitating turbulence produced frothing jets which emerged in pulsations. Stationary waves are produced when force is applied to an incompressible fluid which has been constrained within a fixed volume. The fixed volume of smoothly rounded containers rigidly hold fluidic pressure jets and produced enormous fountains. These fountains appear instantly vdth the very first application of pressure. The fountains emerge from the entrant orifice, unless otherwise arranged. The effect is illustrated with an ordinary sink which has been filled to a height with water. Drops which have been directed to specific parts of the water surface, at specific velocities, can raise a sudden thin fountain high enough to strike one in the face!
/Ether is neutral. Because of its electroneutrality, aether reflections produce no alternations. /Ether reflections produce stationary waves, where geometrically fixed zones of streaming aether are observed. Tesla applied aether “blasts” into the ground. These blasts moved the aether reservoir already absorbed within the earth in an instantaneous pulse, resulting in a sudden aether fountain all around his station. The pulse travelled through the ground, unaffected by its encounter with various rock strata. Nevertheless, when this pulse finally reached a sufficient resistance, or change of mass density, the flow was sufifi-ciendy refracted to surge back up toward its source. The effect occurs instantaneously because earth absorbed aether is a dense and incompressible fluid. The entire effect thus derives from refraction effects in the variable resistance of earth rock.
The bunching action of aether, both entering the ground from above, and that rising from beneath, produced an overwhelming pressure rise in a fixed location. These waves were, in the Tesla lexicon, truly “stationary”. Rising up like a fountain of white light, they remained fixed to the station perimeter and “stationary”. In addition, it seems likely that Tesla discovered, natural “vents” where aetheric pressures persistentiy emerge. Such natural loci evidence strong upwelling gusts of natural aether which may be tapped at for power. These strange natural features explained why certain locations far from his station suddenly erupted with columns of stuttering white light. Indeed, many such locations do exist aicross the world, places which flow at rare intervals with a white light. This phenomena is due to sudden natural cascades of space aether, an otherwise invisible downpour (see figure).
The “fountain effects” which surrounded his station are not responsible for the ever growing power observed by Tesla This was the result of an incoming aetheric supply for which his Transmitter gave low-resistant passage. The incoming aetheric flow preferred the transmitter terminal to adjacent, more resistant rock. This gradual flow process soon evidenced itself in magnification effects, ever increasing volumes of flowing aether being measured in his system. Some have argued that Tesla merely stored energy in the earth, extracting it for use later. This is a basic error, the result of imagining the Colorado Springs experiment to be one consisting entirely of electrical effects (Grotz). It is in this light alone that we may comprehend the evident anomalous magnification of aetheric phenomena in his Colorado Springs photographs.
Once aether energy had been obtained from space, it had to be conveyed to consumers. Tesla had arrange for the automatic activation of aether rebroadcast circuits in the station. The downpouring aether were automatically shunted to side circuits through capacitors. In these side branches, aether pulsed through dielectrics and expanded over the surfaces of his smaller coils. Thus stimu-
Lated to more rapid pulsation rates, they were ready for “rebroadcast”. Being rebroadcast away from the station through large vacuum globes, poised on elevated platforms, these were the aetheric pulsations which would be utilized in home and industry. Simple and compact receivers would be established in every home and factory, set to receive aetheric current through the ground. Tests were thrilling. Distant appliances, lamps and motors, responded to the powerful pulsations ais if physically connected to the station by wire. A small house-like structure was established some 26 miles away from the station. In it, an aetheric power receiver was tuned to one of the rebroadcast rates. The 200 lamps housed within this structure, each of 50 watts rating, all remained bril-liandy illuminated throughout the test runs. This apparently stimulated enough excitement and concern for word of this development to get back east.
Engineers were enraged. Those who had missed his most early shift from alternations to impulses, failed to comprehend the vast distinction between “stationary waves” and “standing waves”. The quizzical use of specific terms such as these was a Tesla trademark, one designed to puzzle the minds of those who criticized him the most With the exception of a very few colleagues who continually made related discoveries in aether physics, most academes had chosen to remain totally ignorant of the new study area. This for example was the case with the Teslian use of the term “frequency” and of “resonance”, words which had completely different meanings for Tesla. Teslian “frequency” refers to the repetition of pulses per second. Teslian “resonance” refers to conditions in which aether flows with little or no resistance through systems, whether proximal or widely separated.
Photographs which Tesla sent to his “financiers” were analyzed and reexamined repeatedly from their encrypted meaning. None could decipher the cunning puzzle which Tesla had set before them. Tesla stated that photographs of the aetheric whitefire streamers required several minutes’ exposure time before registering the faintest sort of impression. Most of the plates were therefore the result of more than 20 minutes’ exposure time. There are a very few plates which, though stated to be the result of “one brief switch closure”, are covered with dense, thick white streamers. One fraction of a second closure on the system switch resulted in a twenty minute or more aether avalanche. Magnifying Transformers continued discharging long after the initial impulse had been withdrawn.
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