Re: Ball Lightning

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Mike,

A name search at www.uspto.gov for the unusual name "Kolok" brings up 42
hits.  I "think" patent #5909086 is the one we want.  A 1999 (fresh) patent
seems to use resonant circuits and everything :-)  this work by Kolok is
very interesting and looks "unusually" credible!  Anyone interested in ball
lightning should definitely give this work a serious looking over.

Of course, patenting something like this is sort of like printing it on the
front page of every newspaper on earth :-))  As Matt D. points out, if your
have a secret, like the formula for Coke, bury it in a vault.  If you want
everyone on earth to know, patent it :-))

If there is new knowledge of this, maybe we can determine if Tesla really
did make ball lightning or maybe he was just frying big bigs that wondered
into the path of his streamers.  Tesla never saw "real" natural ball
lighting but only had the odd printed descriptions of 1899 to judge by, so
errors were very possible...

If this stuff is related to Tesla coils, it is on topic.  Tesla did
associate Tesla coils with ball lightening production.  Many have long
tried to make ball lighting with tesla coils...  Of course, if it involves
microwaves and "stuff" that has nothing to do with Tesla coils, it will
quickly go off-topic and attract my wrath ;-))

Cheers,

	Terry


At 08:36 PM 10/9/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>
>
>> Ihave no input on the subject, but I would like to experiment in the subject
>> if anyone has any useful information on ball lightning generation..
>>      Robert H.
>> "R Heidlebaugh" <rheidlebaugh-at-zialink-dot-com>
>
>    There are a variety of sources on ball lightning generation, from the 
>most generic to the most
>esoteric.  The generic efforts (microwave oven experiments and carbon, etc.) 
>have the advantage of being
>widely reproduced and reproducible, but may not represent the same phenomena 
>as found in nature.  The more
>esoteric efforts, generally to be found on Keelynet and the "fringe science" 
>sites have the advantage of
>being exciting and (in Koloc's case) sophisticated, but the disadvantage of 
>being, simply, unproven and
>difficult to reproduce.
>    For anyone interested in BL generation, the apparatus Koloc uses to 
>generate ball lightning is not too
>sophisticated for the talented amateur, and probably can be reproduced, but 
>his methods are heavily
>protected by patents.  Any efforts to reproduce his experiments using his 
>methods may be under the
>jurisdiction of patent law and/or his approval.  He is highly concerned 
>about safety issues
>(understandably) and is unwilling to grant patent licenses to amateurs.  
>However, for those of you
>interested in the methods for theoretical purposes, a full description of 
>the various devices he has used
>can be found at his website, www.plasmak-dot-com and www.prometheus2-dot-net 
>(corrected).
>The link to the full description of the most recent incarnation of the 
>device can be found at
>http://www.prometheus2-dot-net/PCTApp.pdf   Remember, this is unproven, 
>"budding" science, and so deserves
>somewhat different treatment than a Tesla coil.  There are no amateurs as 
>far as I know who have been
>successful at creating ball lightning reliably.  Whether or not Koloc is 
>"fringe" science in the domain of
>free energy etc. is up to whoever is reading the material--but it is my 
>opinion that it shouldn't simply
>be written off.
>    This is probably as far as I can stretch this thread, since it is off 
>topic.  Please direct any
>further inquiries to me at nolleym-at-willamette.edu
>