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The facility (HAARP Final IRI) officially began full operations in its final 3.6 MW transmitter power completed status in the summer of 2007, yielding an effective radiated power (ERP) of 5.1 Terawatts or 97.1 dBW at maximum output. However, the site typically operates at a fraction of that value due to the lower antenna gain exhibited at standard operational frequencies.
Scientists previously discovered that electrons in the outer radiation belt can extract energy from these chorus waves to reach near-light speed and become killer electrons. The new research, confirmed by the team's THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) observations, is that the chorus waves can be refracted into the inner portion of the radiation belts by dense plasma near Earth and bounce around from hemisphere to hemisphere within the radiation belts.
The space tether experiment, a joint venture of the US and Italy, called for a scientific payload--a large, spherical satellite--to be deployed from the US space shuttle at the end of a conducting cable (tether) 20 km (12.5 miles) long. The idea was to let the shuttle drag the tether across the Earth's magnetic field, producing one part of a dynamo circuit. The return current, from the shuttle to the payload, would flow in the Earth's ionosphere, which also conducted electricity, even though not as well as the wire.
It took a considerable amount of detective work to figure out what had happened. Back on Earth the frayed end of the tether aboard the space shuttle was examined, and pieces of the cable were tested in a vacuum chamber. The nature of the break suggested it was not caused by excessive tension, but rather that an electric current had melted the tether.
The instruments aboard the tether satelite showed that this plasma diverted through the pinhole about 1 ampere, a current comparable to that of a 100-watt bulb (but at 3500 volts!), to the metal of the shuttle and from there to the ionospheric return circuit. That current was enough to melt the cable.
Originally posted by Edrick
ERP of 5.1 Terrawatts, eh?
Thats nice.
-Edrick
[edit on 21-6-2010 by Edrick]
Aaaaand we've learned yet what ERP means? No?
Originally posted by Edrick
Ok, so the Van Allen belt CAN refract low frequency waves...
Good to Know...
Thanks, NASA.
spacespin.org...
-Edrick
Originally posted by Edrick
Wow... that's interesting.
Thanks again NASA!
-Edrick
Originally posted by Edrick
If the inner Van Allen belt is resonant to a specific frequency of radiation (it circles the belt in the same way as the Schumann resonance circles the earth), and the particles in this ring are able to absorb and radiate at this frequency....
Sure, it's why there's a gap between the inner and outer belt.
Next, Edrick will show us how a 2kHz wave (max) is really a microwave, because they're both EM, and it's a radio wave, and it's on this graph he's got, and to the right of it on the far side is microwaves, so they touch VLF, which touches LF which touches MF which touches HF which touches VHF which touches microwaves, so they're the same, and they're all EM. Proof!
Originally posted by Edrick
Looks like ERP don't really matter, does it..?
Not when you can use the Van Allen radiation belt as a LASING CAVITY.
Wow... excited by the Sun at that.
Now THAT is powerful...
In fact, all you would have to do, is get all of the HAARP facilities around the globe to ADD radio waves TO this, and then you could ground it at any nearly any point on the globe.
Originally posted by Edrick
Next, you will show me why what you just said even matters at all.
-Edrick
You think an excited hydrogen atom emits ELF when it transitions to the ground state?
Originally posted by Edrick
reply to post by Bedlam
You think an excited hydrogen atom emits ELF when it transitions to the ground state?
Please explain where the Schumann frequency comes form...
(Second line is Curt)
-Edrick
It does when you're trying to use it as if you understand what it means. Which you don't.
Go back and get a clue what you need to lase. Which you don't have any of.
No. In fact, what you would have to do, is have a population inversion in a cavity tuned to the transition you're going to get when the population you're inverting returns to ground state, preferably with some cavity gain from mirrors
Originally posted by Edrick
Comprehension and relevance are two separate things, Try to keep up.
Would you really need cavity gain mirrors if the Cavity is Refractive enough so that the photons travel in a circle?
The wavefront would just circle around, and build up on itself.
-Edrick
You seem to be lacking both. Rubbing your hands together and going "oooo, 5 TW of ERP! NOW I understand!" then when it's pointed out you are clueless, it's all "that's not relevant".
"oooo, 5 TW of ERP! NOW I understand!"
Except you're missing the fun part where you show me you have anything in an excited state, much less a population inversion, much less something that's going to emit at the frequency your cavity is tuned to, much less what sort of path loss that cavity has since it's really vaguely defined and formed by very low density particles. You know, the conditions you'd need for lasing. Which you are woefully lacking in all respects.
Originally posted by Edrick
reply to post by Bedlam
THANKS!
I don't suppose you have anything like that on the Van Allen Belts, do you?
-Edrick