Ball lightning - Terry's thoughts....

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Original poster: Terry Fritz <vardin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi,

At 07:15 PM 8/6/2005, you wrote:
> .... Maybe we should plan
> > ahead for the next sighting.
>
> And hopefully such sightings will eventually lead us
> to the lab where it can be reliably reproduced.
>
> -Brett


That is indeed the "Holy Grail" of ball lightning...  To have a 
"machine" that can pump out ball lighting, just like Lawrence Welk's 
bubble machines...


I have been trying.  But my 3 year old project is 2.99 years behind now...

So, I will "spill" my "secrets" incase anyone cares and it might help 
out to accomplish the task...


My idea was that ball lighting is "super heated" "stuff".  Wood, 
plastic, dirt,...  It does not matter much....

"Suddenly "superheat" it" to say 20,000 degrees...  Lighting can do that!! ;-))

Unlike say wood at only 400 degrees, a chunk of wood suddenly 
(microseconds) "promoted" to 20,000 degrees might turn into a flaming 
ball of stuff that might float around for a moment as all the 
materials decide what end combustion products and chemical states 
they are going to end up as...

One would need a capacitor, of the can crusher variety, that could 
supply 500K amp currents and a Tesla coil to initiate the "arc over" 
(needs big voltage).

So you put your organic material between the electrodes of the can 
crusher style super current capacitors and initiate the power arc to 
the material with the Tesla coil...

Just that simple....

Cheers,

        Terry