Streamers and lightning can only travel through plasma, which requires a
gas that is ionized. If it were a complete vacuum, no arc is possible.
But in a rarefied environment (partial vacuum), it could be interesting!
Same with a spark gap - nothing would happen (i.e. infinite resistance) in
a complete vacuum, and if it were in a near-vacuum, the arc resistance
would be much higher than normal so losses would be much greater.
Regards, Gary Lau
MA, USA
On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 6:09 PM, YESN via Tesla <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is less of a practical question and more theoretical:
> If you were to have a huge vacuum room and were to put a big tesla coil in
> it, how far would the arcs go? (Assuming it is a complete vacuum)
> If you were to have a static spark gap in vacuum there would be no
> resistance right? Therefore the gap would fire continuesly?
>
> The convential explenation of plasma is ionised air trough which electrons
> flow right? Is a medium like air needed for ‘lightning’?
>
> My kind regards,
> Yesn
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