Re: Anyone ever successful with Ball Lightning generation here . . . .

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

Your best bet for making synthetic ball lightning (and here's where Terry is
going to kill off the thread, because a TC just ain't gonna hack it) based
on recent research is really high power/energy discharges.  Think in terms
of 10s of kJ in a few tens of cm  (recall that real lightning, which is
associated with ball lightning, is on the order of 100 kJ/meter).  I've seen
some stuff which looks promising on the ball lightning front with folks
running a wire over a distance of 1/2 to 1 meter, with commensurate energy,
and the wire over a surface that provides some sort of solid matter that can
be vaporized (dirt, clay, etc.)

You can get "interesting" effects with a smoky flame (i.e. candle, or very
rich acetylene/air flame) on a TC, though..


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Subject: Re: Anyone ever successful with Ball Lightning generation here . .
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> Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>
>
> Hi Captain,
>
> I too watch the ball lightning subject.  Lots of cheap talk, but so far
> those that have demonstrated solid reproducible ball lightning are... None
;-)
>
> The number solid reproducible ball lightning experiments/demonstrations
> remains at a very solid "zero"...  A few folks have attempted to reproduce
> the Corum's ball lightning work but without successes and some bitterness.
>
> I had an idea many moons ago that I was going to explore, but as I write
> this I seem to have total forgotten what it was 0:-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Terry
>
>
> At 08:53 PM 9/5/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >Just wondering if anyone on this group has (or knows) anyone who has
> >successfully reproduced Tesla's and Corum's experiments regarding the
> >generation of ball lightning.  If so, I'd be interested in learning about
> >the theory regarding this.  I've thoroughly read the notes of Tesla
> >regarding this, but it seems much to cryptic for me and seems to left out
> >quite a bit of details!!!
> >
> >"Captain Corona"
> >
> >
>
>