>>12113907there's misunderstandings on the part of the people making the claims
for example page 49 the electrostatic effect they experience is because the bulb is not fully evacuated, lightbulbs are generally filled with gas and if you put one terminal on the filament and feed a pulsed signal of high enough voltage there will be free-electrons under high excitation and the glass will be bombarded by them and adquire an static charge this is the same that happens in a CRT tv the electron bombarment on the screen creates static on the glass and in vacuum tube it can also create blue hues (even thought they are under hard vacuum! pic) Edison was the first to detect electron emission from the filaments of his bulbs, this is why glass can become darker in some areas not because of heat but bombarnment
https://ethw.org/Edison_Effectpage 46 steinmetz "exterior static charge", he's clearly criticizing the books of his day giving the impression that the static field was confined only to the surface of conductors instead of clarifying that the static charge ALSO has a "reach" just like the magnetic field hence electro-magnetic
on the other hand the one thing that really is interesting is the high voltages that tesla used for his experiments because at 10MV you are basically working with a mix of static charge and regular EM, the static charge behaviour being the interesting part.
tesla has a patent very easy to understand about using direct discharges to transfer power >
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/62/90/92/45a5932052a940/US645576.pdfbut this other patent is the one remarcable, according to his observation he saw NO inverse square law behaviour consecuently saw a higher efficiency transfern that normal:
>https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/b1/33/9f/315209c5549a8c/US787412.pdf with "preasure" he means voltage, "capacity" means capacitance as in a capacitor
