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Why is Project HAARP so controversial? - YouTube
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when it comes to controversial science
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projects the high frequency active
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auroral research program or harp is
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right up there with the moon landings
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and chemtrails on the conspiracy hit
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list but once you get past the wilder
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theories and claims the basis of a
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science and its aims is no less
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intriguing so just what is HAARP and why
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is it so controversial
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some of the many reasons why harp
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attracts so much attention comes from
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the claims of scientifically uninformed
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theorists that say can control the
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weather set of earthquakes hurricanes
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floods bring down missiles and planes
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disrupt worldwide communications and
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influence people with minds and moods if
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that were true then it would be one of
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if not the most powerful pieces of
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technology on the planet and hidden
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behind government and military secrecy
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yet HAARP is unclassified though it was
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funded and jointly managed by the US Air
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Force US Navy and DARPA but due to
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budget cuts in 2014 the ownership of the
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site and all the equipment was
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transferred to the University of Alaska
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Fairbanks who now also run it so what is
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the purpose of HAARP
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well it's basic remit is to study the
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ionosphere it's interaction with space
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weather and how it affects radio
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communications here on earth
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as well as the generation of VLF as very
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low frequency and e.l.f extremely low
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frequency radio waves which can travel
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around the world and penetrate deep
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under the sea for communications with
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submarines and into the ground to reveal
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underground structures HAARP deals with
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some complex science and how it operates
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is equally complex but the basic
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principle is to try and replicate how
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the Sun affects the upper atmosphere to
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create the ionosphere and how it then
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goes on to affect it but to do this in a
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controlled repeatable way and of course
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on a much much smaller scale now in
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order to understand HAARP we need to
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know a little about the ionosphere this
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is a constantly changing area of the
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Earth's upper atmosphere that reaches
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for about 60 kilometers to a thousand
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kilometers in altitude where it's thin
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enough so that the sun's ultraviolet and
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x-rays can reach it but thick enough so
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that it can absorb these rays and ionize
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the gases there it's also well above the
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area called the troposphere where we
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live ionization is the process where
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high-energy radiation strips away an
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electron from a neutral
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atom or molecule and creates a
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negatively charged electron and a
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positively charged ion as an atom with a
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missing electron this process creates a
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shell of these charged particles around
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the earth which we call the ionosphere
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this stripping of the electrons also
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releases energy in a form of heat and
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light this light is called air glow and
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is similar to how V auroral lights are
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formed in the polar regions but it also
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makes for night sky everywhere glow very
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slightly and you can see this on a dark
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clear night with a sensitive camera and
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sometimes by eye normally in the dense
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atmosphere near the surface of the earth
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the negative electrons and positive ions
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would recombine very quickly but because
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the gas in the upper atmosphere is much
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less dense that particles are much
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farther apart and remain separated for
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much longer
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with all these free electrons floating
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around the high atmosphere becomes
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conductive starting at around 60
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kilometers peaking intensity at 300
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kilometers and in by the time it gets to
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1,000 kilometers it's dropped almost to
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nothing where the atmosphere becomes too
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thin and then the vacuum of space takes
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over in fact the ionosphere separates
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into three layers called the de and F
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layer with D being at the lowest
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altitude rising up to effort the highest
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altitude because these layers are
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conductive they interact with
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electromagnetic waves like radio
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broadcasts from the surface depending
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upon their frequency some radio waves
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will be absorbed some will bounce off
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the electron layer and be reflected and
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some will pass right through with little
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resistance as these layers are created
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by the sun's energy they can change
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dramatically from day to night summer to
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winter and in fact the lowest D layer
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only exists in the daytime and
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completely disappears at night they are
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also affected by high solar activity and
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solar flares and thus affect radio
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transmissions similarly HAARP uses up to
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3.6 megawatts of high frequency radio
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signals in a 2 to 10 megahertz range to
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excite and heat the gas molecules
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small area V ionosphere directly above a
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facility it does this with the main
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instrument the IR I of a ionospheric
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research instrument this is the heater
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it's a phased array radio transmitter
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with a hundred and eighty antenna in a
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grid covering about a hundred thousand
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square meters or about 24 acres this
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array works like one large transmitter
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but it can electronically steer the beam
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over about a thirty degree angle by the
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time the signal has reached the
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ionosphere it spread out to a size of
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between sixty to a hundred kilometers
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across depending upon its frequency and
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configuration by rapidly steering the
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beam around this small patch of sky it
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can modulate the heating process to
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create signals like VLF and EMF waves
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among the many misconceptions about
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HAARP probably the biggest is its power
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output as this is seen as undeniable
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proof that he is capable of doing all
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the wild things claimed of it it's
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stated maximum power is three point six
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megawatts but this is often mistaken for
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another much larger figure it's ERP
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output and that can be up to five point
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eight gigawatts so why are there two
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wildly different figures for the same
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facility
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well harps output is three point six
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megawatts but in the broadcast industry
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there is another figure called ERP or
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effective radiated power and here is
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where people get confused between actual
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power and ERP because they don't
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understand what ERP represents but one
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thing is for sure you can't put in three
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point six megawatts and get out five
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point eight gigawatts as some claim it's
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just physically impossible in fact you
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can't get out a single micro watt more
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than you put in
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if you did then a you've just solved all
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the world's energy needs by creating a
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machine that makes more energy than it
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uses and B you've just broke the law of
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physics and in particular the law of
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conservation of energy HAARP has to
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focus it's three point six megawatts on
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to a small area of sky hundreds of
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kilometers above use
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it's antenna array like a torch focuses
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its light into a tight beam that 5.8
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gigawatt erp is a fictional figure used
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by engineers in the broadcast industry
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to indicate how powerful the transmitter
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would have to be if there was no
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focusing and the whole sky was covered
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to the same power intensity at the
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target distance which in this case is
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the small patch of sky 300 kilometers
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above HAARP that ERP figure can change
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dramatically from tens of megawatts to
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gigawatts depending upon how efficient
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the antenna is deemed to be at focusing
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the radio transmissions the tighter more
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focused the beam the higher the ERP
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figure will be the more spread out the
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lower the ERP figure will be but at the
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end of the day the most HAARP can
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transmit is 3.6 megawatts with the
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inefficiencies in the system the
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divergence of the beam and the
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absorption of the atmosphere by the time
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it gets to the ionosphere it's down to
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36 millions of 36 thousands of a watt
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per square meter of sky in the target
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zone the amount of energy from a Sun
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falling on the same square meter of sky
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by comparison is 1367 watts about 37,000
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times more energy than HAARP as one
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scientist put it it's like trying to
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heat the Yukon River with a domestic
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immersion heater but in case you think
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I'm just making it all up consider this
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if that 5.8 gigawatts was real where
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does the power come from 5.8 gigawatts
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of electricity is far more than the
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whole of Alaska generates and is enough
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to supply 4.6 million US households
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assuming each house is using an average
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of one point two six kilowatts as stated
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by the US Energy Information
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Administration that's equivalent of New
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York Los Angeles and Las Vegas combined
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the biggest non hydroelectric power
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station in the u.s. is a Palo Verde
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nuclear plant in Arizona
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3.9 gigawatts that would still be short
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by nearly 2 gigawatts so where is the
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massive power station near HAARP and the
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transmission infrastructure required to
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supply this fictional 5.8 gigawatts it
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doesn't exist in fact parks power
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actually comes from five two point five
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megawatt diesel generators on the site
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so if the power output is one of the
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biggest misconceptions about HAARP the
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other comes from its history and in
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particular a patent filed by the
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physicist Bernhard J Eastland to find
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out why you have to go back to an area
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of Alaska before HAARP was constructed
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and to the oil and gas company Atlantic
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Richfield also known as Arco and Byrd
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Eastland Arco had the rights to huge
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natural gas fields in Alaska's North
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Slope region but they were far from
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their main customers and the cost of
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liquefying and transporting the gas was
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prohibitive what they needed was a
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customer that will be nearby Bernard
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Eastlund was an mit-trained physicist
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who worked at the US Atomic Energy
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Commission during the 1960s and 70s he
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specialized in plasma physics and
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co-developed a fusion torch a method of
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using high temperature plasma of a
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nuclear fusion reactor to convert waste
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materials into reusable elements in the
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1980's Eastland was working for Arco and
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became the president of Arcos production
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technologies international company in
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Houston he suggested that Arco could use
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for natural gas reserves to power a huge
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antenna complex to focus high-energy
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radio beams into the ionosphere this
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would heat up the gas atoms to create
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artificial plasma layers in the
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ionosphere but in a way which could be
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controlled moved and shaped by equipment
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on the ground Alaska would be in a good
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position because the Earth's magnetic
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field lines go up almost vertically in
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that area each antenna would create a
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circularly polarized radio beam that
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would spin the particles around the
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magnetic field lines at the resonant
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frequency of the ions in the same way
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that a cyclotron
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works to accelerate particles this would
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heat up the plasma and allow it to move
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along the magnetic field lines to higher
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altitudes eastland was granted a US
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patent number for 686 605 for the
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invention title method and apparatus for
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altering a region in the Earth's
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atmosphere ionosphere and/or
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magnetosphere on August the 11th 1987
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now while theis hland filed the patent
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he did so whilst working for Arco and as
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such are co-owned the patent some time
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afterwards Eastland disassociated
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himself from it and Arco and set up his
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own research company Eastlands patent
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makes some very interesting if not
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technical reading and some extraordinary
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claims some of the claims include that
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it could disrupt communications both
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around the earth but also to and from
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satellites missiles and air and sea
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craft by randomly modulating areas of
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the ionosphere which are relied upon to
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propagate radio signals around the earth
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thus effectively scramble the signals
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now back in the late 1950s and early 60s
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the US and Soviets exploded nuclear
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weapons in the magnetosphere high above
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the earth we also have a video on that
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if you want to see it this created large
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amounts of charged particles which were
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found to travel along the magnetic field
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lines in a spiral motion and bounce back
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and forth between the mirror points of
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their ends at very high speed this
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created a lot of radio noise that could
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blind radar systems and was thought at
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the time could cause the electronics of
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nuclear missiles to file one of patent
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claims was that a plasma layer could be
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created and used to trap some of the
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plasma particles which will then
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oscillate between the new layer and the
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mirror points on the magnetic field
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lines to create interference that could
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have a similar effect to the nuclear
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tests but without having to detonate a
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nuclear device in space
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other uses include heating large areas
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of the ionosphere to move them to much
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higher altitudes to create unexpected
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and unplanned drag forces on missiles
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and satellites and cause him to become
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unser
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in their travel also weather
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modification by affecting the upper
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atmospheric wind patterns by stacking of
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different shape plumes of particles to
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create a lens effect and in
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concentrating solar energy over an area
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or altering the course of a jet stream
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to move adverse weather like hurricanes
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or denying rain to drought prone areas
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it was also claimed to be able to make a
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wave reflector in the sky to steer e.l.f
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signals to a depth of a kilometer or
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more the reflections would then be
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picked up by a satellite and after
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processing could reveal hidden
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structures a bit like a cat scan of the
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earth another reason to use e.l.f waves
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is that the frequency of brain waves in
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humans lays in the 3 to 12 Hertz range
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very similar to that of e.l.f signals it
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was suggested that directing such a
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frequency at an enemy might have a
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detrimental effect on their mood and
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ability to operate but it wasn't all
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destructive Easterlin suggested that it
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could be used to modify the molecular
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makeup of the upper atmosphere
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increasing the levels of ozone to fill
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the ozone hole and to break up various
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chemical entities such as carbon dioxide
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carbon monoxide and nitrous oxides even
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though the claims in the patent seemed
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extraordinary and were probably somewhat
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over the top Arco still passed the idea
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of the ionospheric heater and it's
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possible uses to Simon Remo who had led
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the development of microwave and missile
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technology and was instrumental in the
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creation of the ICBMs he passed it to
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the defense department who then gave it
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to the Pentagon's advanced research arm
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DARPA the big planes may well have
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raised a few eyebrows in the military
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and his electronic being steering and
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reflection technology would have been of
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great interest to him but the overall
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size of the proposed project would have
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been massive for Eastlands patent to
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create the effects it claimed were
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possible it would call for a site with a
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maximum output of a hundred gigawatts of
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true power not the fictional ERP figure
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at some twenty seven thousand seven
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hundred times more powerful
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harpes 3.6 megawatts if Eastlands design
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used the same 20 kilowatt antennas and
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layout dimensions as a harp it would
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need five million antennas which would
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take up an area measuring 51 kilometers
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by 51 kilometers dig enough to cover the
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city of Houston in Texas this is why
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Eastland and Arco suggested that the
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power should come from the huge natural
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gas reserves of Alaska's North Slope it
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would have been a massive cash cow to
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Arco to supply the gas to put this 100
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gigawatt requirement in context it's 9%
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of the United States total electrical
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power capacity of 1,100 gigawatts the
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biggest gas fired power stations in the
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world are in Russia and can generate 5.5
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gigawatts of power each Eastlands array
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would need 18 of these working at full
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power to supply the 100 gigawatts
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Eastlands idea was just too grandiose
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that the scientist saw the opportunity
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to build a much smaller facility that
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would allow him to test ideas and gain a
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much greater understanding of the
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ionosphere so with the help of the
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Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens 10 million
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dollars of funding was provided and paid
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to Arco to build a prototype heart
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research facility at a site of a US Air
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Force over-the-horizon radar which had
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been canceled before completion at
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Gakona Alaska because of the location of
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HAARP it would be able to tap into the
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auroral electrojet an electric current
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that circulates in the polar regions of
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the ionosphere by modulating the auroral
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electrojet with an e LF wave it would
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act like an incredibly long virtual
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antenna high in the sky to transmit
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these VLF and e.l.f signals something
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that the US Navy were particularly
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interested in so now we can see where we
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get this conflation of ideas between the
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HAARP research facility and Eastlands
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original patent but the two are not the
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same
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HAARP operates sporadically throughout
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the year for short periods of time and
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does not use microwaves that energize
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via atmospheric gases as some people
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think so it's not like a giant microwave
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oven it's operating frequency of two to
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ten megahertz 'is 2000 times lower than
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the 2.4 5 gigahertz used in a microwave
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oven and you know when harpy's working
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because you can hear its characteristic
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tones in the shortwave band up to many
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thousands of kilometers away 1/2 is not
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the only site like this there are other
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smaller ones in Russia and Norway but
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HAARP is the most powerful and has been
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able to create controlled effects in the
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ionosphere such as faint air glow e.l.f
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and VLF signals it's detected previously
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unknown ionospheric effects which have
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advanced our understanding of the
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ionosphere greatly and some say that
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it's proof of concept that Eastlands
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ideas could work so what are your views
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on HAARP should we do this sort of
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research consider its origins or leave
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well alone let me know in the comments
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