12-16-2009, 04:41 PM
This is a bit off topic but still relative.
Ok - now I’m going to shake the Mac Tree because this topic has really fascinated me from the get go and sparked a suspicion regarding another issue, that’s radio related in Hawaii.
LOL… here’s what’s really going on in my mind from all those years of in-depth casual Physics and Electrical study/experimentation; this will be liken to the old story “The Emperors New Clothes”. A gentleman named Thomas Townsend Brown who is responsible for fleshing out some very interesting electrical effects that were recently declassified settled in Hawaii for many years while and after working for the Department of the Navy using Lava as an INSULATOR in many of his EXTREMELY High Voltage curious experiments.
What blows my mind about this issue is the simple fact that Lava is factually an excellent insulator and not a friggen conductor at all. (this is where the kid says; “look the king has no clothes!”) This is why GPR works well in soils like Hawaii too. When it all boils down to it; where’s the ground potential in Lava let alone conductance? Unless there’s a potential pathway to the ocean through conductive soils (not just Lava), the ground potential is through the atmosphere to the ocean. Ponder on that one a while because it has a great deal of merit. In a case regarding grounding atmospherically, the “sea of potential” is the key to effective grounding where a conductor composed of a LARGE body of correct soils (concrete or mineral cocktail slab) will effectively increase the ground potential through vast surface contact conductance with the atmosphere and the body of soils ability in itself to absorb a charge acting like a capacitor through the atmospheric electromagnetic field. So the question remains… is ground conductance “ass””u””me”d occurring through the Lava actually perhaps conducting more so through the humid atmosphere instead and if so, what’s this spell for radio based communications in the region as more and more homes are built?
E ho'a'o no i pau kuhihewa.
Ok - now I’m going to shake the Mac Tree because this topic has really fascinated me from the get go and sparked a suspicion regarding another issue, that’s radio related in Hawaii.
LOL… here’s what’s really going on in my mind from all those years of in-depth casual Physics and Electrical study/experimentation; this will be liken to the old story “The Emperors New Clothes”. A gentleman named Thomas Townsend Brown who is responsible for fleshing out some very interesting electrical effects that were recently declassified settled in Hawaii for many years while and after working for the Department of the Navy using Lava as an INSULATOR in many of his EXTREMELY High Voltage curious experiments.
What blows my mind about this issue is the simple fact that Lava is factually an excellent insulator and not a friggen conductor at all. (this is where the kid says; “look the king has no clothes!”) This is why GPR works well in soils like Hawaii too. When it all boils down to it; where’s the ground potential in Lava let alone conductance? Unless there’s a potential pathway to the ocean through conductive soils (not just Lava), the ground potential is through the atmosphere to the ocean. Ponder on that one a while because it has a great deal of merit. In a case regarding grounding atmospherically, the “sea of potential” is the key to effective grounding where a conductor composed of a LARGE body of correct soils (concrete or mineral cocktail slab) will effectively increase the ground potential through vast surface contact conductance with the atmosphere and the body of soils ability in itself to absorb a charge acting like a capacitor through the atmospheric electromagnetic field. So the question remains… is ground conductance “ass””u””me”d occurring through the Lava actually perhaps conducting more so through the humid atmosphere instead and if so, what’s this spell for radio based communications in the region as more and more homes are built?
E ho'a'o no i pau kuhihewa.