Szczepan Bialek wrote:
Only a bad designer will design equipment that requires leakage to
operate.

Quit opposite. Only the best know what the counterpoise is. The leakage
supply or expel the electrons to/from it.

Hogwash.

See:
http://www.google.com/patents?id=j3h...434678&f=false

The Figs 8 and 9 with the Claim 2.
For what there are so many elements. The simple path should be enough (if
you are right).

There is no counterpoise in this antenna.
The full-wave bridge rectifiers provide a DC path through the load
without requiring a DC path in the dipole.

Many elements are used because this antenna is supposed to operate
on microwave, and thus a single element has only a very small capture
area. You stack a lot of them to enlarge the capture area, which is
required to capture all the signals at the point of focus.

Except maybe to someone in 1900, who did not understand it fully.

They fully understand it. They discovered the induction and the leakage (in
electrostatics).
You simply do not understand that your path is the countrpoise.

No, the problem is that I do understand how those circuits work and
you don't. Then you fall back to what was written in 1889 instead of
looking at the design with today's knowledge.

You can even make a crystal receiver with a ferrite rod as an
antenna, which will operate without any ground.

Leakage do the work.

I think leakage has done the work to your brain. Leakage from the
beer bottle, that is.

Leakage can transfer the charge from one body to the another.
The same should apply to "brain to brain".

You are too far gone to understand what the bottle has done to you.