Yes, that is Tesla's announcement that I was referring to back in post #112.

I remember seeing this building shown recently on TV, and I think it was in a public broadcasting science documentary. It showed a randomly pulsating effect of blue lighting. While the person who designed this novel illumination system uses it purely as an art form, it certainly does does demonstrate that cosmic ray showers can be effectively utilized. When a cosmic ray particle enters Earth's atmospere, it collides with oxygen and nitrogen molecules and bursts into billions of smaller particles which result in a "shower." The separation angle of these smaller particles from the original particle is said to be only about 1% from the point of impact to the Earth's surface. That isn't much, but of course it still covers a fairly wide area due to the distance of travel. Thus far, smaller passive collectors at individual sites, such as used in the California Schools Project [ CHICOS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ] and elsewhere, appear to capture a very limited number of particles. As I see it, in order to utilize the cosmic rays effectively for a useful purpose at any one pinpointed given geographic location - either stationary or mobile - it seems that you would somehow either have to use a massive collector or a means of attracting and reconcentrating the diffused cosmic particles - a kind of cosmic ray particle lightning rod, so to speak.

Rick