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: Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 01:38:45 -0500
: From: Joe Bowling
: To: John Quinn
: Subject: electromagnetic energy and fires Possible observation
: of an
: artificially produced electromagnetic phenomenon

: You mention electromagnetic energy being used in weather

: manipulation. I
: (and others) did note a phenomenon which can only be explained
: by
: electromagnetic energy, while working in Eastern Montana
: (Roosevelt
: County, to be specific).

Look up Tesla, he invented the static charger, the basics are what you seem to describe, ungrounded wire up off the ground where wind is able to blow around it.

: A Little background: I am a scientist (Geologist) with some
: background in physics and
: chemistry. I also have four years experience as a firefighter.
: I make my
: living by evaluating rock samples on an oil rig, while the
: well is being
: drilled. Small (domestic) oil companies help our national
: security,
: there have been no environmental disasters in the Williston
: Basin (the
: region I work in), or I'd be doing something different to earn
: my pay.

: Be that as it may, I remember enough physics to know that the
: only way
: to get a shielded, four conductor, outdoor phone line about
: 150 ft. long
: to charge up, like a capacitor, when it is disconnected from
: all
: potential power sources is through electromagnetic induction.
: The
: phenomenon was noted when there was an arc from the shielding
: (while the
: phone line was connected) to a conductor terminal in a
: standard four
: wire to modular connector junction box, such as those used in
: most
: houses. Please note that the arcing produced a loud 'snap',
: loud enough
: to awaken me from a nap in a bunk at the other end of the
: mobile lab
: (noisy place), some 20 ft. away, while my partner was watching
: the gas
: detectors. The wires were then disconnected from the phone
: line coming
: in from the pedestal; there was some concern about damaging
: the phone
: which was hooked up. All four conductors and the shielding
: each
: subsequently obtained a sufficient charge to deliver an
: uncomfortable
: shock or arc about three centimeters to a ground. This
: happened
: repeatedly--the conductors were discharged, could be handled
: without
: shock, and recharged within a minute or two to their previous
: charge
: level. The only voltmeter available was not functioning
: correctly, so no
: readings were obtained. We (I was not alone in noting the
: phenomenon)
: even checked to make sure the jacket of the line was not worn
: through
: and in contact with any metal which may have been a source of
: power
: through bad grounding. That can happen on an oil rig, but was
: not the
: case. The jacket and conductors' individual insulations were
: intact. The
: center 75 feet remained suspended about 15 feet above ground,
: tied in
: place with dry, nonconductive material. The only possible,
: reasonable?,
: explanation is that a thunderstorm some 5 to 10 miles south
: may have had
: some effect, but if other data show that there may another
: cause, I
: would like to know about it. Call it scientific curiosity, if
: you will.

: While I cannot wholly agree that the absence of limited
: clearcutting is
: not a factor in the severity of the fires in the American
: west, I firmly
: believe that the stage has been carefully set by federal
: policy for the
: fires out west to be of the magnitude they are. Decisions made
: at
: Cabinet level and above have caused fuel loads to be at record
: highs,
: firefighting infrastructure at a low, and some fires (like Los
: Alamos)
: have been the direct result of federal action (they set that
: one).
: Unemployment will cause someone to leave a line of work, as
: those of us
: in the domestic oil industry know, and "let it burn"
: policies have
: reduced the job opportunities for career forest firefighters,
: and thus
: the number of experienced firefighters trained sufficiently to
: act in a
: supervisory capacity.

: Rumor has it that dwellings have been burned after people have
: been
: evacuated on short notice with none of their posessions or
: documents as
: part of 'backfire' areas. The list goes on, all in lockstep
: with an
: administration which deeply desires to remove people from the
: land as
: much as possible.

: Please understand that this is not harassment, nor intended to
: be an
: aggravation. As a scientist, I just want to see the data for
: the last
: week of July, for eastern Montana, to try and find a
: correlation between
: the phenomenon which I and others observed and artificially
: produced
: electromagnetic energy.

: Thank You,
: Joe Bowling