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

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Original poster: "jimmy hynes by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chunkyboy86-at-yahoo-dot-com>


there are also alot of people that claim to have seen ufos 

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> Original poster: "Gary Peterson by way of Terry Fritz " 
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> > > With the power guys are running now anything he saw 
> > > should have been seen again.
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> > . . . I 
> > would like it if it turns out to be a real phenomina. 
> > Especially one that's lab reproducable. But the 
> > evidence out there seems to be lacking severely.
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> With all of the eye-witness accounts, haven't we gotten past the debate as 
> to whether ball lightning is a real phenomena? The object now is to learn 
> how to predictably create it.
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> Tesla was operating his spread-spectrum magnifying transmitters in a CW or 
> near CW mode, at power levels just below that point at which sparks would 
> break out from the elevated topload. The available descriptions suggest 
> this is the regime in which the phenomena should be most readily! produced. 
> In the patent APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING ELECTRICAL ENERGY it says,
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> "The accident is apt to occur when, the transmitting circuit being strongly 
> excited, the impressed oscillations upon it are caused . . . to be more 
> rapid than the free oscillations. . . . To increase the safety, I provide 
> on a convenient place, preferably on [elevated] terminal D, one or more 
> elements or plates either of somewhat smaller radius of curvature or 
> protruding more or less beyond the others so that, should the pressure rise 
> to a value, beyond which it is not desired to go, the powerful discharge may 
> dart out there and lose itself harmlessly in air."
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> When global surface-wave mode propagation studies are eventually done using 
> large-scale ELF/VLF Tesla magnifying transmitters, ball lightning should 
> become less of a mystery.
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> Gary
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