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Date Posted: 22:08:07 01/11/04 Sun

In the first post "Anonymous" started out by saying,

"Over 100 years ago, in the waning days of the Robber Barons, the copper companies did what they did for profit as they had a right to do.

"They represented their own interests and potential profits against what was then a new and unknown technology such as Tesla's demonstration to transmit electricity without wires. See: [http://www.democracynature.org/dn/vol4/raptis_technology.htm]."

I rose to the challenge and went to your reference and found only one reference to Tesla, and that was to his invention of alternating current (in wires, I presume). Granted, Tesla did do some work in broadcasting energy, but this reference does not address it. BTW, this history of technology ranks among the most cynical writing that I have seen: and I consider myself to be extremely cynical myself!

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In response:

Tesla was brilliant, but often went off the deep end. Broadcasting energy in three dimensions is horribly inefficient (the available energy diminishes as a cubic function). Today we are able to "beam" energy, but it then becomes unavailable to any but "point" receivers. To get it to myriad end users requires transponding a myriad of times, with each transponding creating another inefficiency. How is this better than wires?

I've read the ITC concept description on your web site, and consider it to have many viable (but not new) elements -- and many elements that are highly questionable. It is not yet well enough developed to warrant anything but idle curiosity.

How may I contact the "ITC Advocacy group in Washington State"? I am actively involved in transportation planning in Washington and have no knowledge of such an organization other than the King County Monorail organization -- which I have the utmost regard for.

Keep up the good work, dreaming is important, but I don't think that you are quite ready for prime time. Before you present a proposal to decision makers, get some meat on your ideas' bones.

Len Newstrum

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