Wireless electricity, is it possible?

Electricity can be an expensive commodity at times. Well imagine this flipping a switch in your house and getting electricity through the air, exactly like radio waves. Instead of having your house attached to wires simply having an antenna on your roof . It is possible through the use of tesla coils and resonant technology. Nikola tesla was obsessed with the idea of wireless transmission of electrical energy. It is said he once used his massive tesla coil in colorado springs to transmit electricity over 20 miles through the air.

Well this may seem like a far fetched impossible idea it is in fact possible to send useable electricity through the air. I did some tests with a small tesla coil i builtand found i could transmit power up to two feet, mind you this was a very very small coil about 6 inches tall. I had a recieving coil with a christmas light at the end, it lit up brightly when the coil was turned on this shocked me. I trully did not expect it to work.

This is however merly a novelty, it would take an incredible amount of electricity just to send it, it would cost way too much to run, also the idea of sending electricity through thin air could cause unforseen negative health effects. So it is merely a novelty but it is a very interesting idea to know that electricty can be wirelessly transmitted. There is some modern work going on with coils and such today with limeted results but it is promising. Perhaps one day there will be no more plugs merely switches, only time shall tell.

Homemade Tesla Coil

In this post i will describe the methods i used to build my own small tesla coil. I have always been intrigued by nikola tesla and the idea of high voltage. One day after building my jacobs ladder i became obsessed with the idea of how i would build a  tesla coil, but after some research i decided it might be a tad bit difficult to do. I had no idea how to build a capacitor or how to get the amount of wire i needed. Then i had an idea, the wire i would get would be from small ac/dc converters, those little black boxes you plug things into to charge, you can see how i got the wires out of those in my post about my electric guitar.  http://matttech.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/my-guitar/ So anyway I still didnt know how to get a capacitor, well first perhaps i should tell you guys the components of a tesla coil first and then go from there.

High voltage transformer preferably between 10,000 and 15,000 volts

Capacitor

Spark gap

Primary coil

Secondary coil

First i will describe the transformer i used, i used the same transformer i used for my jacobs ladder. Which is a 10,000 volt oil burner ignition transformer, It works perfectly for my small tesla coil.

Now on to the capacitor which took me a while to figure out but essentially i made my own design, it is a leyden jar filled with salt water. What it is is a regular glass canning jar with aluminum foil taped to the outside with a wire attached to the aluminum foil. The jar is then filled with salt water and a wire comes down in through the top of the jar into the water. The purpose of the capacitor is to allow the spark gap to fire which is the next device i made.

The spark gap is a device where the electricity sparks across a gap to charge the primary coil of the tesla coil. For my spark gap i used two bolts fixed in such a way that there was a centimeter between them. Two wires attached to the bolts. You can build the spark gap in many ways, mine the two bolts are inside of a ceramic tube that i put inside a coffee can filled with fiberglass insulation for sound surpression the gap gets loud so i soundproofed it. Its really hard for me to describe my particular setup but really its a simple concept so i wont go any further.

Next ill tell how to build the secondary coil this is the high voltage one, This is the one with alot of turns of wire. I got the wire from the small transformers as i mentioned before, you can buy it if youd like im not sure the exact gauge i used, it has to be enameled wire.I wound them onto a small plastic tube, I did it by hand many people choose to build something to do it for them but i did it by hand it took quite some time i got somewheres around 400 turns of wire.  Then i wrapped the coil with electrical tape to help protect it from high voltage arcing which can ruin the coating of the wire, and possibly start a fire (learned from expeirience)

The primary coil, for this i used just regular insulated 22 gauge wire and i wrapped some more electrical tape and some saran wrap around the base of the secondary coil to prevent the aforementioned electrical arcs. Then i wrapped the insulated wire around the base i got 5 turns out of the primary coil. Then i wrapped the primary with electrcial tape to keep it in place. Then i hooked it all up almost exactly as shown in the diagram below its muched easier to show with a diagram.

I used a marble wrapped in aluminum foil for the topload of the coil, attached on the top of the primary coil as shown below. The coil produces about 100,000 volts. I can light up a flouresent tube through my body, holding the tube in one hand and touching the coil with a metal object in my other hand. I can also send electricity through the air up to two feet from the coil using another coil as a reciever i can light up a small christmas light wirelessly. Nikola tesla reportabley sent electricity more than 20 miles. The coil also acts as a rudementary radio transmitter, it can transmit upwards of a quarter mile.

This is not my image but it describes my setup pretty closley

Swine Flu

The swine flu seems to be a big topic about the nation recently, But really what makes it such a big deal? an epidemic? In all reality the swine flu seems to me anyways to be no more dangerous that your average flu. Yet we dont see the regular flu in the news every day we dont see people needlessly killing off animals that really have nothing to do with the human epidemic all throughout the world. People have vastly overreacted to this. Probably because it has its own name, Its something new most people have never heard off. People always fear new things. So far as im concerned its no more dangerous than a fly.

Good grades? smart or just lucky?

Ok im just randomly blogging about this now because this annoys me when people judge me on how smart i am from my grades. First off ill admit i dont get the best grades but really how much do grades really matter? To me the only thing grades mean is that you know how to work the system, thats a good skill but seriously ive seen some people who i swear have no idea what theyre doing but they get As all the way through yet you couldnt get an educated conversation out of them if your life depended on it. When were taught in school thats all were tested on. Were tested on what we remember from the pointless lectures and rants. Not on what we really know if you can hold onto a peice of information long enough to put it down on your test you get an A you dont need to understand what your doing in order to get that. And this is why i think our school systems are flawed severly. Also the teachers also dont always have the right facts,now i give them credit they have to remember alot of things so a few descrepencies are expected i suppose. I remember last year my history teacher was talking about world war two and the atom bombs. Our teacher mistakenly said that the two bombs were fission and fusion which he was right in the fact that they were different but not fusion and fission different,but rather one was fueled by uranium 235 the other by plutonium, they were both fission devices.Fusion didnt come along until 1952, 7 years after the end of world war two, So essentially what im saying is that school doesnt test you on your knowledge it tests you on what you can remember of the crap youve been fed. I dont get the best grade usually around 70s and low 80s but i know enough that not everything they teach us is the truth, i know enough to research something further whereas other people the ones who get As blindly believe that what ever the teacher says is true 100%, and thats what i think is wrong with our society.

Drinking Age 18?

There has been a fair deal of controversy lately about lowering the legal drinking age back down to 18. The idea behind the change is that it hasn’t done anything to help the problem of alcohol with minors but has only made it worse. I agree no matter what you do they will still drink and if you alienate them by making it illegal at a younger age then you will put them in a more dangerous situation outside of a controlled environment. A nice time home with friends drinking is  a lot safer than out in parties with who knows what going around and always running from the police so they don’t get busted for underage drinking, I am 17 years old, i think more like these people i personally do not drink. But i know people who do and the fact that its illegal well that doesn’t make a bit of difference at all they’re still going to do it,when are adults going to understand that we don’t live in some fairytale world where people do exactly as they’re told and that telling them to do something else wont work at all? People need to think more and logically about these things all the current drinking age is doing is pushing people to do it where they wont get caught where theres no supervision and the conditions are very dangerous whereas if it were legal they could do it under much safer circumstances ie a bar rather than off in the woods at some party… think about that. I think the drinking age should be lowered to around 12.. i know i will get comments telling me thats outrageous… but is it really? Europe does similar things and they don’t have nearly as big of a problem as we do. If we teach out kids to use it properly then there will be a far less chance of them abusing it. Think about it first drink 12 years old family setting,every things safe you learn how to use it safely. Or first drink 21 years old some party you get drunk beyond your own control because you never learned moderation and you go get behind the wheel and get in an accident and kill someone. I rest my case.

Medical Marijuana The government should recognize it.

Let me start off this post by stating that i in no way advocate the use of marijuana as a recreational drug. If you’ve seen my blog before you will know that i am very pro hemp. Well i came across a documentary on marijuana use and it was centered largely around medical marijuana and how proposition 215 in California can be overcome by the federal government because it is only a state legislation. Well i watched it showed many DEA raids on medical marijuana facilities and many people who genuinely legitimately needed medical marijuana were arrested or were protesting with tears in their eyes. Medical marijuana can be used to ease the pain from AIDS if i recall right isn’t aids one of the nations top priorities? The government seems to focus more on the prevention of aids now don’t get me wrong prevention is very important but that doesn’t mean you should just throw those people who are already infected with aids in jail and conflict them of felonies for merely trying to ease the pain.

It seems the government throws these patients to the streets while claiming to care about AIDS. Granted many people abuse medical marijuana just to get high but they’re making themselves look like complete idiots. Also It is the constitutional right of the state to be able to make its own laws apart from the governments ie prop. 215. The governments failure to recognize this could lead to some serious consequences. One aside from many many riots and conflicts the failure of the government to cooperate with the states is what led to the civil war. I think that the government should either make medical marijuana legal just as many states have but make it harder for those who are just looking for a high to get it. Or stay out of the states who have already legalized its business. Marijuana should be treated as a medication. Not as an illegal substance especially not on schedule 1. Schedule 1 is reserved for substances that have shown to have NO possible medical use. such as cocaine, methemphedamine, lsd and other highly toxic substances. But marijuana has proven itself as a medication capable of helping people in ways that other medications cant. Also so many synthesized medications carry so much more dangerous side effects. What of people who don’t want to die from complications from other medications? To date there is no record of anyone ever being killed by marijuana but every year thousands if not tens of thousands die from prescription medications whether it be from overdose or an unforeseen complication.

So is it really right for the government to arrest those is real need of help and force the people to use other precription medications that carry sometimes deadly side effects? I mean i can see where people don’t want people who are all high running around the streets causing trouble. But medical users some of them are immobile and need assistance an others just need to relax. Imagine it your sitting there one day you have a terrible headache you go get some Tylenol or ibuprofen or some other drug and you get federal agents knocking your front door down and throwing you to the ground, I saw this one pro medical weed video it rang true. It showed this poor old women smoking medical marijuana and the DEA burst in and starts screamer at her to get on the ground. Meanwhile across the street theres a group of teenagers in a meth lab watching it all unfold. And if i recall right the dea shot the woman dead, im not sure i cant find it. Of course this video was just satire but it showed how the DEA is wasting money prosecuting these sick and disabled people while the real criminals could be just across the street brewing up meth and get away clean, METH kills marijuana doesn’t. who’s the real criminal here? The poor old lady probably with cancer or the murderous DEA who burst through her door when she was minding her own business? By the way something like that actually happened where dea agents burst through the door of a 92 year old lady who fired upon them as they threw her door down. She was an old lady who lived in a rough neighborhood you don’t have any clue who could be breaking your door down. I would have done the exact same thing and im a peaceful nonviolent person but if i fear for my life you can bet im shooting whoever s breaking my door down in the middle of the night.The cops were charged with murder and plead guilty.

This is a problem we must correct innocent people are going to jail because of the simple stupidity of the government. I mean the law makers in Washington seem to be so detached lets see what happens when one of them get cancer and no legal drug out there will help them, then what?

Let me once again state that i do not nor do i ever intend to smoke marijuana as a recreational drug. I believe that it should remain as such even so it will shut the government up. I have never smoked weed i see nothing wrong with it. There is NO real data to show that its any more detrimental to your health than cigarettes. But the government supposedly knows whats best for me (yeah right) so i will not somke it.

I hope that some politician or law maker will see that medical marijuana is a necessity and will rise to power and stop the fascist attacks on poor old women. Seriously busting down doors and shooting people is what the Nazis did.

Bigfoot update.

DNA tests taken from the supposed bigfoot do not prove that whatever they have is a separate species.One of two tests shows up to be human and the other shows up to be 96% opossum. Even with this they say the tests may not have been taken right or perhaps were contaminated,i can see human DNA,so what the friendly neighborhood possum came over to see bigfoot and contaminated the corpse? At this point its looking quite a bit like a hoax and a poorly pulled off one too….if your going to give fake DNA at least go to the zoo and get some fluff from a gorilla cage or something now that would be shocking to see that the DNA came up as a gorilla and not an OPOSSUM.

Bigfoot pics….this site actually loads.

http://www.trendhunter.com/photos/22849/2

this site shows the image of the creature in the freezer this one actually loads….for some reason the main sites wont load today…perhaps due to the press conference? who knows either way heres one of the photos.

Bigfoot in georgia(link to pictures)

A body was supposedly found in Georgia and a press release is supposedly due Friday august 15 in Palo Alto, CA. The supposed photos can be found on this website here. http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/ga-gorilla-pic/

Is this Bigfoot or some hoax? We wont know until Friday.

Chupacabras found in texas.

This strange animal was videotaped by police officers in texas some people are calling it the chupacabras.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/08/12/pkg.tx.chupucabra.ken