Golka & Ball Lightning

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Original poster: "S&JY" <youngsters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Mike,

Thanks for the interesting photos of the Golka Wwendover coil - very
interesting historic stuff.  Do you know if he succeeded in generating
reproducable ball lightning in the hanger?

Just wondering if you have any information or experience you can share with
us regarding his experiments using disel-electric train engines as giant
generators and submarine relays to initiate plasma spheres (ball lightning)
as the train engine came to a screeching halt down the tracks?  "Generators"
were actually the traction wheel motors decelerating the mass of the the
train engines.  Tremendous energy unleashed into the plasma.  Must have been
quite a ride!
--Steve Y.

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Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 7:57 AM
Subject: Re: Streamer colour


> Original poster: "Mike" <induction@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Paul,
>              I got some ACCURATE data here for you, new pictures, coil
specs
> and so forth regarding the Wendover coil and you may download them. I had
Bob
> Golka get me these pictures from his paper file archives and confirmed the
> numbers.