Re: Golka video: Ball Lightning in lab. WHAT?!!!!!

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Original poster: "Harold Weiss" <hweiss@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hi All,

If it was aluminium that was burning, the heat from it would vaporize the 
water, and it would ride on a cushion of steam.  This would be similar to 
water droplets on a cast iron woodstove.  I much rather go with a carbon 
aerogel/fullerene system similar to what the Corum's proposed.

In most reports, a source of carbon can be found.

In Dr. R's report, leaves at the bottom of a radio tower with a bad ground. 
A lightning strike vaporizes the leaves producing the balls.  Once the 
tower ground is rebonded, no more balls.

Balls comming from telephone handset.  A nearby lightning strike vaporizes 
some of the carbon from the handsets carbon microphone.

Balls inside an aircraft.  From my mechanics days on jet helicopters, a 
fine layer of soot (carbon) coats everything.  A bad static discharger 
system will allow buildup to the point of St. Elmo's fire.

Passing thru glass.  The Corum's were able to make balls pass thru glass, 
as long as the glass had carbon smudges on the opposite side.  (capacitive 
effect?)

A case from Austraila in which an observer sees a ball standing on a 
blacktop road with a thunderstorm in the distance.  The asphalt provides 
the carbon, and (guessing) a failed "out of the blue" strike leader occurred.

Chimneys, I think you can figure that out.


David E Weiss

> Original poster: "Mike" <induction@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Bill,
>             Well, the size of semi-hollow metal I saw was of enough size, 
> as it was "frozen" at that condition, to tell me it was more in size than 
> I would expect from the spark throw off. As you say, could be water 
> effect. But Bib also saw these in welders mask and with extra heavy 
> (dark) filters on another mask, so really, under those conditions, his 
> eyes could not be overloading as the text you spoke of says.
> They do spin like crazy and you can see a lot of vapor burn off in the 
> clip. I also think that is aluminum you are looking at in the lower, near 
> water, electrode. I just asked about that, yes base was aluminum, at one 
> point moving bar was also, at another point moving bar was iron. But base 
> electrode was always aluminum..
> Regarding the usage of AC transformers, he had one monster, I see it here 
> and my opinion is it is at least a 50 or 60 KVA core. I see about 4 turns 
> about MCM 600  Here are some references to the Pre-battery data , maybe 
> also post battery, in these papers.
> GOLKA R.K. Laboratory-produced ball lightning. J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 99, 
> p. 10,679-10,681, 1994.
> GOLKA R.K. Laboratory-produced ball lightning. Proc. 9th Intern. Conf. on 
> Atmospheric Electricity, St. Petersburg, Vol. 3. p. 854-856, 1992.
> I also just asked about travel over surface other than water, he says 
> water was easier to track them on, also movement was better on water, 
> likely due to boundary layer effect.
> The thing about banging such a load with AC, you just never know where you 
> are in the AC wave form. As you do a short, is it halfway up crossover, is 
> it at zero crossover, is it at the peak? I'm sure you've plugged in a 
> power supply that was on and the transformer bang as it brings up the 
> filter caps in a big one could be silent, semi-loud or a real loud hum 
> until the caps charge.
> Usually you don't care once the supply is on, you get the DC and move along.
> But in a short like this, you can be any place on the wave form.
> That is one reason, plus lots more bang current, the move was made to 
> submarine batteries.
> Large shunts were borrowed from MIT and the currents in the paper indicate 
> what he had off the transformer. I don't have that paper here but he does 
> in his office not far away. And the reference is above.
> We have 24 volts worth of these (12 cells) wet charged and ready but they 
> mostly run the UPS now (Many, Many days).
> If your doing a thing on the east coast maybe you can come zap your own. 
> We can access the 10,000 FPS MIT camera, already have exploding wire stuff 
> (which really looks more like bridge view of stars at warp from enterprise).
> Mike