I will attempt to explain what I think Don found while studying Tesla and replicating various experiments. By now I hope everyone following this thread is intimately familiar with Tesla's radiant energy patents from 1901, #685,957 and #685,958. I have talked about this before at some length, but they say a picture is worth a thousand words, so I saved myself some more typing by making some graphics:
Here is a schematic of what is happening in Tesla's configuration, and why. The output circuit is omitted for clarity. A tiny current charges the cap slowly, but more importantly the current entering the cap takes on this "cold" character because it's at the reaction side of the dipole created by the high voltage source. Many experimenters have noticed that this happens naturally with the ionosphere as the high voltage source, the small induced currents that come from the ground show this cold or radiant characteristic where they can be multiplied. I could cite some sources, but I assume most everyone here is familiar with the standard free energy literature (from places like Patrick Kelly's website).
Tesla's contribution was (A) noticing what was happening, and understanding the necessary components, and (B) realizing that the high voltage source could be artificial as well as natural, it doesn't make any difference as far as the physical process at work.
Don then took this one step farther and noticed that the capacitor doesn't actually KNOW or CARE what the source of the charging current is. It just has to be charged with some current while in this voltage environment. In Tesla's arrangement, a small leakage current provided either by the small amount of ions in the air or by ionizing radiation/photoelectric effect charges the "receiving" plate positively. In Don's arrangement he just uses a current source of any of a number of types to remove electrons from the non-grounded plate of the storage cap, while the ground provides electrons to charge the other side:
Again, the nature of the charge entering the capacitor takes on this unique characteristic. Apparently there is a lot we don't yet understand about the process of electrostatic induction and I don't claim to really understand it completely either. However, after much study I am pretty sure this is the mechanism that is happening in at least some of Don's devices, my lack of experimental success notwithstanding.
In other words: Tesla figured out how to make cold electricity, but only in tiny quantities. Don figured out how to do the same thing only in vastly larger quantities. Even if the radiant energy has a sizeable COP gain upon going through a transformer, you still need more amps of it to run anything significant. Don discovered that this was possible, and exactly how to do it. It would seem that one of the obstacles is in getting the phasing correct: when using an AC high voltage source like a Tesla coil or even a plasma globe, then the current pulses would need to be in the correct phase with regard to the voltage waveform. This isn't as easy as you would think because in a quarter-wave resonator as resonance the voltage and current are in quadrature, 90 degrees out of phase. A current loop pickup coil around the Tesla resonator won't do exactly what you need, as I found out by trying it. So it would seem, yet again, that Don told us SOME of the secrets, enough to be useful but not enough to put it all together and actually make a working device.
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