Re: [TCML] Ball Lightning

[DC Cox <resonance@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree that carbon and fine metal powder has been found to be the source in
many cases, but it does not apply to this case.

The guy wires were very high up on the tower, some at 200 ft level, 400 ft,
and 600 ft.  There was no carbon this high up as the engineer who actually
lived with his family in a home next to the tower base (he maintained the
transmitter in the base as well)  used to climb the tower to replace lights
and reported nothing unusual in the form of metal.  This tower ws on a 900
ft high hill area of solid quartzite though.  Possible peizo connection?

These balls would get large, then move from the V area sometimes finding and
following the power lines.  In one case they came thru a wall into their
home area and scared the entire family who was watching TV?

After the tower was regrounded due to lightning problems, it all stopped.

DC




On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Harold Weiss <hweiss@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm in the carbon combustion camp on this.  In all cases there's a source
> of carbon and electrical activity.
>
> Aircraft:  Most aircraft have a fine coating of soot on their surfaces, and
> pick up static charge.  If static drains don't function, St. Elmo's fire is
> seen.  Most reports of BL also include reports of St. Elmo's fire.
>
> Chimneys:  Soot on the surfaces, nearby or full lightning strikes.
>
> Phones:  Balls reported emerging out of phone during thunderstorm.  Carbon
> mic element.
>
> Tesla coils:  Tesla used gutta percha coated wire.  That insulation
> contains soot.  I and others, have produced balls in sooty smoke while
> combusting items with our coils.  Higher wattage coils produce larger
> effects and can begin to produce persistance.  I produced one with a 1"
> diameter that traveled outside the streamer radius while burning a stick
> with a 12/120 NST coil.  Photography of balls produced by burning rubber on
> a coil show that the balls form about 1/2" above the tip of the flame, and
> are much brighter than ejected embers.  The Corum's were able to get their
> balls to pass thru glass, but it required smudging the opposite side with
> carbon.
>
> Fullerenes:  Produced in an electric arc using carbon electrodes in an
> inert gas enviroment.
>
> DC's case:  The leaves at the tower base provide the carbon.
>
> I believe fullerene creation may be the mechanism for ball lightning.
> Corum's believe it to be a combusting carbon aerogel.  Either way, you see
> the mix of carbon and electricity.
>
> I just had a thought, fullerenes are known superconductors when properly
> doped.  Carbon aerogels may do the same.  They would create a magnetic field
> which would be somewhat ball shaped.(the connecting lines would form a
> torus)  We may be seeing a combustion temprature superconductor that the
> magnetic lines are compressing into a tight centered torus that would look
> ball shaped.  This magnetic field may also collect other carbon in the area,
> adding to the size of the ball.  In my photography, the balls grew in size
> the further they went from the flame while being "pierced" by the streamer.
>
>
> David Weiss
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "DC Cox" <resonance@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> It is real.  I've seen it routinely form under the "v" shape of a large
>> radio tower's guy wires prior to a powerful thunderstorm.  The nearby
>> leaves
>> (fall) were all sucked up tightly against the tower as well suggesting an
>> electrostatic origin.  When the tower was regrounded to help prevent
>> exxcessive lightning strikes the effect went away.
>>
>> No, it's not induced.
>>
>> A bit off topic though.
>>
>> Dr. Resonance
>>
>>
>>
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