It seems some people are surprised that high voltage AC will arc to metal objects or earth ground,
which can generate a current flow, but that is perfectly normal.
Tesla coils arc to any conductive object
whether Earth grounded or not, such as even a small insulated screwdriver tip. How much current can flow
in the arcs depends on how much power you are putting into the system (in non over unity devices anyway) and
how large the conductive object is, and this usually works somewhat better with an actual Earth ground.
This is all just normal stuff. In Geo's circuit he is probably inputting quite a few watts to light only a small wattage
light bulb using a sparkgap. This is all normal and expected circuit behavior with high voltage AC, and under normal
conditions is not likely at all even very efficient, let alone approaching over unity. Until Geo provides some input power
measurements while using a battery as a power source, there is no reason to assume anything outside of the ordinary
is happening in his test setup. Yes, the arcing attracting objects like leaves and dirt is most likely just a static electricity
attraction effect.
The problem that needs to be solved is getting a lot more power out to a load than we are putting in. IMO, it is important that
you test using battery power only, to avoid potential ground loop effects to the mains. Such ground loop effects can
be very misleading. It should also be a given that you have to be monitoring input power closely and properly to be able to get
any idea whether anything unusual may be happening.
a.King21: One of Don Smith's main theories is that energy can be obtained from the ambient (air) using things
like tesla coils. The main problem with this theory is how do you tap into this extra energy and make use of it?
Kapadnadze may have just figured out how to do what Don Smith had talked about for years prior already.
It should be fairly simple according to Don Smith, and apparently the same in the Akula/Ruslan devices, but many people
have tried Don Smith's devices with no over unity results. What could be missing? Don Smith didn't seem to do anything
special, but he also made it clear that he left certain pieces of info out for contractual reasons with clients he was
doing business with. Many of Don Smith's devices did apparently use Earth ground, but Don Smith also stated that one of his
devices was used as a power source in airplanes, so it would seem that at least some devices work with a virtual ground
or possibly no ground at all. Akula showed that his first self runner would run without Earth ground connected, although
he said it worked better with Earth ground. What then is the secret to tapping this 'ambient energy' into useful energy
that can power a real load? It would seem we are staring it straight in the face, and it would also seem that it should
be fairly simple, based on the Don Smith and Kapadnadze and Akula/Ruslan devices. Don Smith's devices did not
use any complicated two oscillator system where one waveform needs to be closely synced to another waveform, but
at least with Akula and Ruslan they have demonstrated what are supposedly self running devices. Ruslan did not show
what components were in the boxes in his supposed simple pulsed output capacitor device, so I am suspicious
that Ruslan was doing something different than he suggested he was doing with that device.
Maybe there is something
very simple going on here that we haven't identified yet... Ruslan has made it clear that he is not about to reveal
every detail of what he is doing, so maybe he just figured out something simple that we are overlooking, which Ruslan
has chosen to keep to himself, so far.
All the best...
