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Re: Holy Crap!



Original poster: gary350@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Someday there may be a Blasma Ball Lightning Forum.

How many on this forum are going to build a ball lightning generator?

What will the official name of a ball lightning generator be called?

Gary Weaver





-----Original Message-----
>From: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Jun 8, 2006 1:45 PM
>To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: Holy Crap!
>
>Original poster: Jan Wagner <jwagner@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Tesla list wrote:
>>Original poster: mercurus2000 <mercurus2000@xxxxxxx>
>>
>>Silly subject line but worth it, slightly off topic, but I think
>>everyone here is gonna want to see this.
>>http://www.physorg.com/news68812957.html
>
>Neat!
>
>There's also a German article with a short setup diagram at
>   http://www.ipp.mpg.de/ippcms/de/presse/pi/05_06_pi.html
>and a short ~2MB video of the bang at
>   http://www.ipp.mpg.de/ippcms/de/presse/pi/05_06_kugelblitz.mpg
>
>Pity that it is not a "contained" plasma ball, more like a plasma
>"smoke ring". Interesting though that the plasma is greenish. Maybe
>due to ionized natrium / chlorine from the salt water. Wonder if
>other salts would result in other colours :-)
>
>The German site's diagram shows a 5 kV DC supply and 500uF capacitor
>bank, that's a few kJ, and more like can crusher than tesla coil.
>
>cheers,
>  - Jan
>
>
>