Re: lightning, Xrays

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


>Is it an efield effect?
>Well, lightning strikes occur in a field around 10-20 kV/meter, a lot less
>than that around a TC, which is probably more like 100 kV/meter), but maybe
>there is a high field in the immediate vicinity of the stroke or leader..

>While it's not directly TC related, I wonders if one were to set up a
>"exploding wire" type experiment at 50-100 kJ/meter kinds of energies with
>microsecond scale discharges, whether you'd be able to detect anything..
         That's What i recall hearing discussed.

         Real Plasma physicists.
         Some species of high power exploding wire and the
         caution to:
                 Prepare for GAMMAs
         I UTTERLY disrecall the details...

         best
         dwp

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