"single wire" means only one wire, therefore "no return". If there is a return through the earth playing the role of a wire, then it is not a "single wire", it is an ordinary circuit obeying Kirchoff's laws.
Capacitive coupling between the terminal capacities.
Same thing as moving away the two plates of a capacitor connected to an inductance. The fact that the inductance is constituted of 2 inductances in series with their midpoint connected to the ground doesn't change anything. It looks like two circuits but there is only one. While the resonance is maintained, there is a significant displacement current between the two "plates". When the two "plates" of the resonant circuits are too far from each other, the ground is no more negligible and so constitutes also a capacitor "plate" towards which a part of the current is diverted.
There is not one point differing from Maxwell's equations or from ordinary engineering.
A wire is a man made conductor, don't try to say I'm saying what I'm not saying.
Wire equals man made wire. A conductor is anything that will conduct.
Wireless means no man made wires. Which is intended to cut infrastructure maintenance.
Displacement current is not conducted in a wire or a conductor because it isn't conducted as far as I can tell.
The atmospheric wireless transmission was designed to create and use a conducting path in the ionosphere not displacement currents, not a wire, a conducting path.
Bottom line is we disagree. I make no real claims except that What people say Tesla said is not what Tesla said most of the time.
And Show me where I said there was anything but electromagnetic waves ! Don't twist my words.
I'll say it again I am not saying the latest transmitter actually worked. I am saying many people are twisting Tesla's words to suit their own agenda's or beliefs.
You on the other hand are claiming it does not work. Prove it with experiment. Tesla claimed it worked not me. He is dead he cannot prove anything.
If you insist it doesn't work well then good for you. Fact is ELF communications can be picked up anywhere on Earth. and is wireless, no wires, only natural medium
and it's not radio waves or radiation, I'm not a radio engineer or other wise qualified. But I can see ELF communication has no wires and is not radiation or radio waves
those are the main points.
Then I ask anybody again, where is the words from Tesla claiming these were free energy devices. So many people claim he wanted to transmit free energy to the world at no cost
to anyone, which is a complete joke.
So to sum up ELF transmissions use no man made wires (wireless) and can be received anywhere on Earth. I don't dispute the displacement currents.
People can attribute whatever laws they like to that but I think that is the reality.
Cheers
P.S. Wire=
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireconductor=
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_conductor..