Impedance calculation for ground-conduction power transmission, worked for this newspaper

Origin: Prof. H. Osei-Baumann, at our request
Dated: May 2026
Extent: 11 pages
Status: accepted
Redactions: None.

Chain of custody

Worked at our request by a transmission engineer who asked that it be published whole rather than summarised, on the grounds that summaries of this calculation are how the argument stays alive.

Held by: They Buried; published in full

Excerpt

At the grounding point V ≈ 0 by definition of the ground reference.
  P = VI.  With V ≈ 0 at the injection node, P → 0.

  Coil impedance ~5×10^4 Ω against an earth impedance approaching
  zero at the frequencies proposed: a mismatch of ~4 orders. Nearly
  all energy returns to the transmitter on the reverse half-cycle.

  Measured field falls to background within ~30m of the electrode.

  CONCLUSION: not an engineering difficulty. A definitional one.

Transcribed by the data desk. Line breaks follow the original. Bracketed matter is ours.

Editor's note

Published whole at the author's insistence. He asked us to note that the objection is not that the scheme is hard, but that it asks to deliver power into the node it has defined as zero.

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