Re: Ball lightning - Terry's thoughts....

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Original poster: Brett Miller <brmtesla2@xxxxxxxxx>

Terry,

Wow!  Now that's the real stuff right there!  A
testable hypothesis that those properly equipped could
have a lot of fun playing with.

I can see that being possible.  The things that seemed
"fringy" to me were the accounts of "it" rolling
around the ground or diffusing through a door intact,
etc.

I think you have some great ideas there.

-Brett

--- Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>