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You need a LOT more power to ionize significantly. kilowatts, perhaps On 9/6/20 7:14 PM, derstrom8--- via Tesla wrote:
This has indeed been a concept that has been considered for various applications. Here is one from 2012 where the US Army was supposedly experimenting with a weapon that used a laser to generate a plasma channel which directed a lightning bolt at its target: LIPC - Laser Induced Plasma Channel Non-military uses include this concept from the EPFL School of Engineering using a laser as a lightning rod: Laser Lightning Rod Project I wonder how many different applications might already exist? Matt Lewis, Fairlee VT -----Original Message----- From: David Thomson <aetherwizard@xxxxxxxxx> To: David Varas <varas_david@xxxxxxxx>; Tesla Coil Mailing List <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sun, Sep 6, 2020 8:47 pm Subject: Re: [TCML] voltage on the streamers I have imagined that using a high powered (5mw) laser would create an ionized channel through the atmosphere for streamers to follow. I wonder if anybody has done this, yet? David Thomson _______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla
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