Re: Holy Crap!

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Original poster: Chip Atkinson <chip@xxxxxxxxxx>

I can create new lists at the drop of a hat if there's desire.

Chip

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: gary350@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Someday there may be a Blasma Ball Lightning Forum.
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> How many on this forum are going to build a ball lightning generator?
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> What will the official name of a ball lightning generator be called?
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> Gary Weaver
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> -----Original Message-----
>  >From: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>  >Sent: Jun 8, 2006 1:45 PM
>  >To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
>  >Subject: Re: Holy Crap!
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>  >Original poster: Jan Wagner <jwagner@xxxxxxxxx>
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>  >On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Tesla list wrote:
>  >>Original poster: mercurus2000 <mercurus2000@xxxxxxx>
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>  >>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
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>  >Neat!
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>  >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
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>  >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 :-)
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>  >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.
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>  >cheers,
>  >  - Jan
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