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madman," Omni magazine once said46, citing his degrees from Massachusetts
institute of Technology and Columbia University, While working for eight years in
the Atomic Energy Commission's fusion program in the early 1970's, for example,
he co-invented a "fusion torch" that would use plasma leftovers from fusion reactors
in recycling solid waste.

Some time after the meeting where Ramo heard Eastlund's beam focusing
ideas, the two worked together on a patent that they filed in early 1985. Their
"Method and Apparatus for Creating an Artificial Electron Cyclotron Heating Region
of Plasma" was the second of a series of three patents that Eastlund assigned to a
subsidiary of ARCO - Arco Power Technologies Inc. (APTI). Ramo's contribution to
the concept was to use a large superconducting coil on the ground to modify earth's
magnetic field at a high altitude, Eastlund said.

It had been a good time for Eastlund. The controversy over "the Eastlund
patents" had not yet begun. No physicist had yet warned that experimenting with his
patents could turn into "an act of global vandalism".

Eastlund had been hired by ARCO as a consultant, to come up with uses for
the 30 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in ARCO's reserves on the North Slope of
Alaska. ARCO's problem was the remote location of the gas. Building a pipeline and
shunting the gas to industrial centers was no answer; that pipeline megaproject had
been on the oil industry agenda for more than twenty years without development. The
company would get maximum profit if it found a use for its product right there on the
North Slope itself.

In that scarcely-populated stretch of icebound real estate, who would be the
customers for massive amounts of power? Looking at it in terms of burning the gas
on the spot to power a huge generator and make electricity, Eastlund realized that they
were talking billions of watts of electricity, not just the millions watts put out by a
city's megawatt power plant. What could his boss possibly do with a few gigawatts?

He rejected every idea that needed smaller amounts of power. Eventually
Eastlund came up with a wild plan - use all that energy to power the biggest
"ionospheric heater" in the world. The equipment on the ground would beam focused
energy up to the ionosphere, where the beamed radio frequency (RF) waves would
interact powerfully with charged particles that are always trapped there. The heating
effect of the focused beam would then dramatically push a plume - a large section of
the ionosphere - up and outward from Earth.

As it later turned out, the big ionospheric heater in Alaska would be located
far from the North Slope gas fields. But the challenge had served to spark Eastlund's
inventiveness.

Anyone outside the military-industrial-academic complex, watching
Eastlund research the history of other ionospheric heaters, might wonder - why would
anyone want to heat and lift part of the upper atmosphere? Was the motive to allow
46 Bill Lawren, "Rediscovering Tesla", Omni magazine, March 1988.