Hi!
I'm wndrtch.  Glad to meet you all!
I have some thoughts and ideas about Dr. Tesla's Radiant Energy Systems, and wanted to share them with you in the hopes of moving the ball forward a bit more. I believe the secret to unlocking his work, can be found in the theories of Acoustics.

But first, some background so you know from where I come.

My first job out of high school, was with a company that produced hi-end ribbon loudspeakers. I was the resident lab-rat (technician) responsible for the QA of their active x-over products. These x-over’s provided the speaker’s frequency response shaping prior to the amplifiers, which in turn, were connected directly to the drivers. The idea was to eliminate the passive components from the signal path, thereby creating a much more open and accurate performance. Because I was the only one qualified to use a soldering station properly, I was later pulled into an R&D project to develop a high efficiency switching amplifier. It was a form of Pulse Width Modulation, implemented in a tristate architecture (+, -, and damped), and was controlled directly from a digital audio source. As a result of our work, we were issued two patents, partnered with STMicroelectronics to develop IC’s, and deployed the products commercially. The products were branded DDX (Direct Digital Amplification). Today, STM is shipping 3Mln DDX branded IC’s per month, into flatscreen TV’s and HTiB systems. When the parts became available, I left the bench, and joined “The Dark Side” (marketing  ) to promote the products in North America.

Because of my experiences in acoustics, when I read about Dr. Tesla’s Radiant Energy System, it seemed obvious to me that he was creating an oscillating  “compression wave” of electrons between the two plates of a capacitive system (Bifilar inductor and Earth-ground). Electrons act like a “spring” in that they can store kinetic energy and then release that energy because of the repulsive nature of like-charged particles, much like how air can be compressed and relaxed to make sound. In order to build energy in the system, he then creates multiple compression waves by timing the discharge of additional electrons with the natural resonance of the “spring” at the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th harmonic frequencies. When two of these compression waves collide, the voltage increases for that compression wave, in essence creating standing waves of electrons. 

I have more thoughts, but think it may be a good idea to stop here, and see what y’all think.

Yes, that's right. I think what you are describing is the basic difference between a transverse wave, like EM, and longitudinal waves (sound is an example).

So in your opinion, my understanding seems sound? (pun inteneded  )

If so, then allow me to expand on how Dr. Tesla creates the initial compression wave.

When we were working on the digital amp project, we had to take great care in dealing with something called “overshoot”. The output stage of the amp was a silicon switch that connected a 40Vdc source to the load, via 4 MOSFETS configured in an H-bridge design. The output of the amp was a square wave with a rise time of 7-10 nanoseconds. The rising edge of the waveform would see a huge voltage spike that would exceed the 40Vdc source by almost 2x, then ring down to stabilize at 40Vdc. This overshoot voltage was the result of the discharge momentum of electrons from the source, acting upon the at-rest electrons in the "sink", creating the electron compression wave that would propagate through the system until the kinetic energy was exhausted.

How am I doing so far?