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

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Original poster: boris petkovic <petkovic7@xxxxxxxxx>

Malcolm,Terry,and All,

A halo of controversy has been around this subject
ever since first eyewitnesses' reports.
If only a single BL event,natural one or not,were
predictable and clearly video clip captured...Until
that happens,sceptics and debunkers will have full
right to question a mere existance of the phenomenon.

Not unrelated question is if someone claims  having
*BL* artificially produced and videotaped,why there's
no release of the film-for scientific community to
examine it?

regards,
Boris

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

> Original poster: "Malcolm Watts"
> <m.j.watts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> On 6 Aug 2005, at 21:14, Tesla list 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
>
> Well a lot of reported BL sightings are associated
> with chimneys and
> these have two pertinent properties: a source of
> carbonaceous
> material and height over surrounding structures -
> ideal for
> attracting electrical discharges.
>
> Malcolm
>
>