Well, that is where we differ. Tesla's experiment showed that resonance can be a gain.
No, it didn't show that resonance is a gain. It is your incorrect interpretation of the experiment and result, and lack of understanding of resonance that has led you to that conclusion. Let me give you an analogy that may help explain why a storage device (resonant system) is not free energy. - Say you have an empty 1 gallon pail suspended by a rope 3 feet off the ground. Empty, the pail exhibits a potential energy we will cal "Ep" of some baseline value X. - You begin taking pebbles off of a pile on the ground, and dropping them in the pail. You do this until the pail is full, at which time you are tired from lifting all those pebbles into the pail. - The pail now exhibits an Ep of XK, where K is some factor that has increased the value of Ep significantly. - Would you agree that the stored Ep in the pail is much greater than when the pail was empty? - Would you agree that no matter how quickly or slowly the pebbles are poured out of the pail, or if the rope is cut so the pail drops with AG to the ground, that there has been no net gain in energy? (all the added energy stored in the pail was put there by you). A pail is not a resonant system, but it can be used to store potential energy, hence the analogy. With a resonant system, small amounts of power are transferred over time to the system, and with no load and no losses, it will store that energy indefinitely. The greater and greater amounts of stored energy in an LC resonant system for example, result in a growth in the voltage and current amplitudes. However, the over all energy stored in this LC resonator is not greater than the total amount of energy that was imparted to it over time.
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