Re: Ball lightning ?

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Original poster: "davep by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <davep-at-quik-dot-com>

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Randy by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<randy-at-gte-dot-net>
> 
> I saw this on a TV show on one of the "cable channels" a
> few years back; as I've mentioned in the past, the effect
> reminded me more of "spitting in a hot frying pan" than
> anything of an electrical nature.

	There are many things that look like they might be BL.
	That's part of the problem, wee need a good way to
	repro, test, capture & verify the stuff.

	AND BL may come in various flavours.

> Just incandescent blobs of copper electrode dancing around on
> the floor. IIRC all the guy was doing was shorting out two
> electrodes connected, as you say, to a bank of submarine batteries.

	I think that was Robert Golka.  Brief clip in another
	show.  NOT using the big coil.

> At 12:59 PM 1/5/02 -0700, you wrote:
> > > It has been reported that something like BL was produced
> > > with banks of batteries, ex Submarine:

> > > say 600VDC +/- and Yee_Chriminy amps.

	best
	dwp