Re: Ball lightning ?

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Original poster: "rheidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-zialink-dot-com>

Jim Lux; I can not speak for others, But I would like to study your
information.  Thank You for posting.
   Robert   H

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> Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 21:20:25 -0700
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> Subject: Re: Ball lightning ?
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> Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
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> If anyone is interested, I have a fair amount of experience generating
> stable ring vortices, which might have some relevance for ball lightning.
> Certainly, folks have proposed combining a ring vortex generator, a source
> of carbon black or powdered metal, and a tesla coil as an effective ball
> lightning generator. Most of my work in this area was with pulsed
> discharges, rather than the sort of steady state thing you get with a TC.
> If there is interest, I can post some info, either on the list or on the
> web.
> 
> For what it's worth, I also have a fair amount of experience and information
> on creating artificial tornadoes  (see US Pat 5,971,765, for instance, or
> the Volvo Commercial ("Twister") that aired in the UK about 5 or 6 years ago
> or the Twister attraction at Universal Studios Florida), but I don't know if
> that's as useful for ball lightning. However, combining tornadoes and
> lightning is always an attractive prospect.
> 
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> Subject: Re: Ball lightning ?
>> I think you also need to get a swirling vortex thing going.  Sort of like
> a
>> smoke ring or tornado.  That will feed the flame and keep it going.  Some
>> of the Russians have worked a lot on the air current part of it.  This is
>> probably really hard to get going.
>> 
>> Then it appears that you need some extra chemicals like water, dirt, wood,
>> carbon, etc. to help it burn.
>> 
>> So with all three parts mixed together, one may indeed get this ball
>> lightning stuff going.  Your tests are a vital piece to such a theory.
>> 
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