Re: Ionisation Q.

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Original poster: "Jason Petrou by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <jasonp-at-btinternet-dot-com>

You would need a hugely powerful laser to ionise 5 miles of air between you
and the cloud! also how would you store the energy from a cloud, seeing as a
single discharge contains many billions of coulombs of electrons, and there
are several discarges from a cloud every second - we are talking more power
than runs through NYC's electricity grid! you would need to build a
*massive* cap bank to store the charge, and then to use it in a TC you would
have to drain it slowl like a battery.... it would never work!!!

Regards
Jason

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Subject: Ionisation Q.


> Original poster: "Sietze by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
<s.van.de.burgt-at-hccnet.nl>
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> Hi there all you technologie wizzards (and others),
>
> Some time ago I was watching the discovery channel and there was some
French
> person who used some kind of laser to make an ionised channel through wich
> lightning was diverted from it's original path, alway's taking the easy
way
> down. He called it lightning protection. He also mentioned it was possibel
to
> drain the lightning out of a thunder cloud but you needed a very powerful
laser
> for that. I figured would it be possibel to use some kind of inverted
Tesla
> coil to pick up this energy; store the energy for a while and after that
use
> the same coil to transmit the energy again on an other frequency.
> If one would like to try this: how powerfull exactly does a laser need to
be to
> ionise the air enough to form a channel for lightning to come down? And
how
> much laserpower is involved in draining a cloud from lightning?
>
> Hope I didn't ask an impossible Q again.
>
> greetings from Holland from a guy named:
> Sietze
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