Welcome,

Lets start this out by looking at our local environment that we live in.

Lets see that in motion shall we...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVfAS5oBuXY

 This happens on a minute by minute basis or every single day...

All of that energy entering our planet at the poles is feeding everything we are experiencing today. From Super storms to Super volcanoes, our local environment is receiving tons of energy from our Sun. After all the energy must be discharged right? With each event discharging a portion of the received energy from the Sun.

 No matter if we are present or not this transfer of energy happens second by second of every day, year after year. It is an established flow of energy.
 Now given that we have pointed out that there is this variable flowing stream of energy seeking ground, we can infer that it could be tapped.
Tapped like Tesla did with Niagara Falls... Hooking to the very wheelwork of nature or that flow to ground and extracting energy and tempering it to relax the discharges like a safety spark gap allows discharge to fire at a certain point to protect the rest of the system(planet) from catastrophic discharge damage ie Quakes, volcanoes and superstorms. To name a few local discharge types.

 Tesla knew about the Fair Weather Potential and decided that he could induce, from the ionosphere, a very high potential with the added inertia of plasma current in an Elevated capacity isolated above the zero ground potential. The zero ground potential is steering the plasma towards the ground. Like rain falls from the sky it can be collected high above and used to generate a heavy flow of current after transformation. The flow of plasma is DC like so it is a requirement that you need to oscillate the control point to get it to act like AC and we can induce from it a heavy current via an appropriate transformer like action.

 If we now look at the Tower diagram we can deduce a good bit about what he was doing.

 Please examine this diagram very very carefully.

 Lets discuss this....

 There is a certain distance above ground that the P (top capacity) is at. The fair weather potential, when referenced to the ground potential , is @ 187 feet tall (56.9976m) @ 120v/m = 6,839.712v at the top when referenced to ground zero point.

 I'm assuming here but if you beyond the zero point you get a negative value per meter below zero point? This could make it a larger gap between the 6.8kv at the top upto and beyond the opposite polarity: ie -6.8kv+
This would  Impart more force of the charges flowing to ground from directly above (In reference to the top capacity).

 Now that we have the electrical parameters of the tower let us look at what the tower is.

 What the tower is not, is a radio tower.

 What the Tower is, is a blocking oscillator of the grandest design. Purely passive except for the initial impulse to start a heavy flow of plasma from the ionosphere at position G. The resulting flow after the impulse will be massive and is controlled by the (C) Coil + (G) capacity combo. The startup procedure will most likely involve trains of impulses to be able to pull down the plasma from the ionosphere but once the flow has connected to the ground or shortly above the ground then the pressure of the plasma around the planet will take over and act as a pressure like water in a vertical hose.

 Lets imagine the amount of plasma around this planet. Conductive plasma that could be drawn down from above by a massive impulse or trains of impulses applied at point G. Once that stream is activated it will take a counter blast of impulse or trains of counter impulses to dissipate the flow. This stop impulse will need to be monitored to make sure it dissipates the flow and if not a train of counter impulses will need to be issued to stop the flow. As well if you look at the tower diagram above you will see the heavy coil C is self terminated through a capacitor. This would act as a choke around the central coil A and limit the amount of flow that can pass around the heavier more magnetic coil C.

 Tesla found out that if the P capacity was not single wire isolated in a glass bulb then it would discharge massively and losses would be incurred to the initiating and stopping impulses. So he designed isolated terminal bulbs to help with discharge losses and it worked so well the flowing surge of energy was so large it back fed into the local power system at Wardenclyffe and Blew out the generators that he designed and built for the local area previously. This backflow was from the surge of plasma flowing down from the ionosphere and inducing back into the transformer C coils and resonating with the capacitor G. Subsequently this forced Tesla to use special dynamo's instead of the local electrical supply to initiate and stop the flow, until he could figure out why it flowed backwards into the local supply.

 The connection to ground (E) was not connected but used in a safety gap kind of way at the start but evolved into a magnetically controlled and quenched spark gap that Tesla designed in the 1892 lecture previously while working with his high frequency oscillators. This allowed a true one way valve type of control going to ground. This also allowed a build up of plasma as well around the top capacity and allowed a stronger discharge to ground to happen. The gap was buried under ground (Below zero point) and control lines were ran to the lab so that Dr. Tesla could control the Blocking Oscillator.

I will try to merge the two replies but if not then here is the magnetic discharger.

 The discharger does a few things here. It cleans up the impulses flowing to ground. Makes them happen faster and seemingly more uniform to ground. It also polarizes the gap and does not allow for much reverse pulses. Hence the reason for faster discharges to ground.
 This discharger is the key to his wireless energy plan. If you impulse a resistive load(ground) then it will radiate outward right and could be harvested anywhere you have access to the ground?

Tesla Also found a way to use a virtual ground system. A self excited oscillator that harvested a column of plasma seeking ground from above.

 In my years of work in antennas in the citizens band radio I found that they used a  top (mid and lower) load coil to make the antenna to look like it is (electrically) larger than it really is, with some efficiency mods happening at each point (top, mid and low). The tower central coil (B) above the huge Transformer (F) looks much like the same design if the impulses were going outward it would raise the voltage potential of the impulses.  It should allow the impulses to travel higher or further up and connect electrically to the ionosphere. Remember when Tesla mentioned he could light up the sky at night. Well this is what he was doing. Connecting to the ionosphere via trains of impulses flowing upwards from the top of the tower's capacity. This would raise the voltage potential of the ionosphere locally around where he was connected and gave off an aurora. The very same thing that the Sun does via the solar wind and rather frequently now.

 I would also hedge a bet that free flowing plasma that would otherwise blow by would be attracted to the increase in potential and start to flow around the ionosphere with higher density. This would allow more harvesting of the plasma charges going to ground and might even shore up the protection we have against the Suns CME's.

This is the example of what he was trying to do:

Again I am having issues loading pictures after posting the message. I'm sorry for my lack of understanding in this area.


 Lets Look at the analogy only.

 The Elephant in the room is Who is the Gigantic Hand pumping the pump? I like to think this is the force of plasma around the planet and the pump is actually his tower in blocking oscillator mode with the discharges from said mode raising and lowering the potential of the Earth electrode. This action in itself will relieve stress built up around our planet and discharge it into the earth safely after we harvest a bit of the energy off. The results are less tension in the whole system and subsequently less build up and discharge of massive plasma collections.

 Besides that, we see the pump. With only one direction shown. If it was an oscillating pump it would have a bidirectional indication right? Also the pressure indicator gages are a sort of outlet right. Those gauges would be the outputs at any point on the sphere and show the pressure at any given point as shown available to dissipate the energy for our uses.

 Here is more on what he knew about the earth and the atmosphere. Pay attention to parallel lines around the planet. These are plasma double layers with different densities and subsequent voltage levels as you go towards the ground. As the plasma density lowers going to ground there is less voltage available going to ground level. With the ground being the zero point.

“It was evident to me that wireless transmission of energy, if it could ever be accomplished, is not an invention; it is an art. Bell’s telephone, Edison’s phonograph, or my induction motor were inventions, but the wireless transmission of energy is an art that requires a great many inventions in combination.

“We are living on a planet that is rushing through space; this planet is partly conducting and partly insulating. If it were all conducting, or if it were all insulating, we could not transmit energy without wire. It is only because it is partly conducting and partly insulating that a glorious future for man is reserved through the application of this art.”

–Nikola Tesla
(From a pre-hearing interview with Nikola Tesla and his legal counsel in 1916 to protect his radio patents from the Guglielmo Marconi and the Marconi Company.)

[Fig. 1]:
“We are living on a planet of well-nigh inconceivable dimensions, surrounded by a layer of insulating air above which is a rarefied and conducting atmosphere. This is providential, for if all the air were conducting the transmission of electrical energy thru the natural media would be impossible.” –NT

 In every case you can insert Plasma field where the Natural Medium or Media is used.

 In his later years after Morgan pulled his funding and black balled him Tesla tried again to get this idea out there. This time it was on a more personal level. No need to have a permanent source of power but a more personal source could be had cheaper. And why would you need 1 million dollars to make a more personal version right? It was perfect.

 This is the point where the Pierce Arrow experiment was involved.

 Tesla figured out that you could instead of discharging directly to the ground that he could do it in a virtual ground kind of a way. Where he would capacitively couple with the ground and induce the output safely to ground via the body of the Pierce Arrow. This would also incorporate many of the ideas he came up with during his investigation of Higher frequency work and subsequent lecture of 1892 on the subject.

 Both a special transformer that replaces the coil setup in the tower with a new oil filled and shielded transformer box. This is his disruptive discharge circuit that could be used for one wire power and is shown in the 1892 lecture. The magnetic interrupter is also shown and the advantages are discussed as well. It was highly controllable via the distance of the gap and the magnetic distance across that gap.

 I believe Tesla knew that he was creating a plasma vortex and harvesting the flow of energy going to ground via that system. Less power is available but should be more than enough to run a vehicle whatever size you wanted.

 If done right, any transmissions that you wanted to do or receive could be done. After the virtual ground connects to the EARTH ground that was all you needed, transmitting or receiving the information via other vehicles or towers would be a matter of channels right?

 If you know what to look for examples are everywhere.

@ 3:05 you can see a column of plasma seeking ground and how water conducts it and is controlled by the discharge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLcJ851kGXk


 Water and why Tesla chose WardenClyffe for the tower.

 This is an evolving collection:

 I will be editing the posts as I find errors and additional information.

Very interesting stuff... some of it I lack the proper knowledge to fully comprehend but still cool none the less.

I want to know more about this magnetic spark gap.

 The spark gap is used to blow out the spark so that you can get more sparks in a second.

  I have not made one yet but from what Tesla was talking about it was beneficial to the setup. I would have to test it to really understand what it does. I assume the faster and faster pulses would start to look like impulses which are one way discharges. The Gap securing the discharge does not reverse?

 "The employment of an intense magnetic field is of advantage principally when the induction coil or transformer which charges the condenser is operated by currents of very low frequency.  In such a case the number of the fundamental discharges between the knobs may be so small as to render the currents produced in the secondary unsuitable for many experiments.  The intense magnetic field then serves to blow out the arc between the knobs as soon as it is formed, and the fundamental discharges occur in quicker succession."

 For reference of the many ways either people have thought he did the Tower or actually was the way he did it, via proof.

The first picture is a thought of way but then again how could the rods be under the water table?

The second picture is a rough estimate of the real structure and supporting tunnels for controls and the supporting electrical cables.

The third 3d representation of the actually radar scanned structure below the Wardenclyffe site.

The 4th representation is what Tesla considered a LOSS. Any time this setup was running and the streamers came forth Tesla said the discharging was The plasma taking a shortcut through the tower and grounding out. Remember the tower is an attracting type of element. It is to draw down the plasma from above and strip the plasma of it's charge as it flows by the tower element through the iris the bottom coil provides. The coil is the way to induce this energy from the plasma as it rushes by and the capacitor connected with that very heavy magnetic coil is the storage medium. One could connect his disruptive discharge machine to that capacitor and convert the potential to AC

 I was thinking that instead of a massive blast to get the process going that successive trains of impulses could pull on the plasma from above and might actually take a minute or two before the flow starts.

 I want this to be a working thread so lets try to figure this out then...

 Some information here.

"powerful electrical oscillations communicated to the ground ... cause vibrations to be propagated to distant parts of the globe, whence they are reflected and by interference with outgoing vibrations produce stationary waves the crests and hollows of which lie in parallel circles....the planet behaves like a perfectly smooth or polished conductor......transmitting slow electrical oscillations without sensible distortion and attenuation.

...to establish the resonating condition...the earth’s diameter should be an odd multiple of the quarter wavelength.

*******...employ oscillations in which the rate of radiation of energy into space in the form of Hertzian or electromagnetic waves is very small.********  (<-Discharges like the tower shown above....)

...I would say the frequency should be less than twenty thousand per second, though shorter waves [higher frequencies] might be practicable...

...the wave train [frequency pulse] should continue for a certain interval of time...not less than...0.08484 of a second...which is taken in passing to and returning from the region diametrically opposite the [transmitter] pole..."

 
Tesla didn't know it all about what he was doing in the experiments. He was exploring this. The oscillator was the tower and I think it was a blocking oscillator used to impulse the ground so he could utilize the output at just about anywhere in the world in his wireless design. But the Way he gets the energy was from the existing flows already around us. Like in his eventual Niagara Falls example. Once built the operation of the Unit was the only cost and it would benefit the environment as he would be stripping the excess energy from the plasma that is all around us. Less energy making it to the ground means less troubles like earthquakes and huge storms that arise from the radiating energy trying to discharge out of the core of the planet.

 Think on that one awhile. Weather control via conditioning of the energy state of the plasma entering our planet. Lessen the amount of that energy and walla Less storms and violent events like Volcanoes errupting and huge super storms we see today.

 Found another tower drawing above and below the ground level.

 I wanted to retouch a subject about the ionosphere.

 At a range of potential between 250kv - 360kv depending on the time of year and day, weather permitting (reduces potential or discharges it).

 All those charges bound in the plasma from the sun is attracted to the ground potential and usually rains down just like the real rain. Discharges being storms and even further down in the earth discharges from plasma that has not been stripped of its charge, ie volcanic or even earthquakes within electrical rock crystals (piezoelectric). We know if charges flow by a coil it will induce into it a part of it's charge and safely ease into less reactive version of plasma.

 The range of potential comes from the solar wind and other charges flowing within our solar space that happen to become trapped by out magnetic shield.  So this potential could be utilized to attract free charges stuck in our magnetic shield and guide it down to the ground where we can strip it of it's charge as it flows to ground. The best way is slow and steady but the plasma needs encouragement by using a higher potential at the top of the tower the the ionosphere provides. At first we will need to initiate the flow then after if gently flows downward we can hold it and allow it to goto ground with a blocking oscillator.

 Am I over explaining this?

 What we are learning about plasma and our environment...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz9c24XBU5o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qay1mQrSkOg


 The next thing we should explore is what is an arc or spark or electrical discharge.

 I say Explore what is an electrical arc, spark or discharge and what is condensing to allow that spark or arc to discharge across a gap after a short observable time....

 If we extract the air from a space it becomes electrically conductive and is the premise of vacuum tube operation. What is conducting through that space is the plasma that space is composed of. The medium of space is a dark mode plasma and it is everywhere.

 It kind of looks like this (Reference Picture 1) in gross natural form with matter present. If matter is not present it becomes so uniform that it is has a perfect geometric shaped cells, as in example two of the references here.

 If we know anything about electrical plasma is that it forms itself into double layers. The double layers being plates of a capacitor and react the same way between the layers. Just remember in the examples that the double layers are multifaceted and because space has matter in it. The density of the double layers grows around the matter because matter displaces the plasma.
 What matter is, is another question. I think matter is a loop of high density plasma that is self terminated. You can induce into and out of the loop but the loop has limits in both directions as to how much you can add or take away from the internal loop of plasma. The loop most likely is twisted as well the twist maybe a way for matter to be differentiated as well: (reference picture one).

 Back to Sparks. So if one passes a spark between a magnetic field would it somehow change the discharge in a way or even multiple ways? A spark is an event that responds to the potential difference between two electrodes. When the potential is sufficient to attract enough plasma it will conduct across the space between the electrodes. If we put a magnetic field across the gap between the electrodes, what kind of effect would that have? We don't even know what is a magnetic field really. Well some of us do but lets just look at the current working theories.

 Tesla was of the opinion it was beneficial to his disruptive discharge method of creating a bigger bang for your buck. But he didn't have much time to investigate it as he got distracted by other investigations. He said it worked as well as air puffs across the gap and actually worked without changing anything but adding the magnetic field. what I believe is that the magnetic field acts like a puff of air but is on all the time. The discharge goes through and is cleaned up by the magnetic field being 90 degrees out of phase with the discharge path. I'm thinking there is a small deviation of the spark going through the field as well. and if you reverse the spark across the gap it will spread the reverse spark out and dissipate it?

 Maybe this method could be used in another way with an electromagnet coiled around the gap in a toroid. This would allow polarization going across the gap and not allow it to go back. I would think that would be bad to not let that backflow ground itself out. Maybe induce current further as it goes to ground in reverse. So a collector plate around the gap would be great for shielding the back discharge away from the disruptive discharge circuit and shunting that to ground. You can strip most of the energy of that backflow inductively (via Transformer) on the ground wire. If you use a bifilar coil primary it should not limit the energy you can extract because it does not alter the flow to ground via the built in capacitance of the bifilar primary winding.

 I'll try to make a drawing of the idea asap.

 Maybe something like this?

 I had started to do work on this and the coil I made was technically bifilar but I did not do the integrated bifilar winding and decided to do the banded bifilar. It still had a good counter emf force via self induced currents and the back emf was dirty and very spiked self induced currents as a counter emf and back emf after that..
 The counter emf works against the full impulsed current from getting into the full coil and a reduced output is always the case due to this. If it was truly a bifilar coil it would have no such problems and the output fields would be very strong. Both the magnetic and electric fields. But as a reflector this coil self terminated or terminated with variable resistance or transformer like action would be it's real purpose.

 Here is the picture.

 Here is a drawing that I propose should be looked at.

Don't pay attention to the placing of the plasma blue color marking next to the tower diagram. Poor placement...

Also the circuit after the discharge gap may be wrong... Then again it may be right...