RE: Ball Lightning - Easier than you think . . .

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Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>


Strong electrostatic charge but not always lightning.  Lightning and rain
soon followed.

It can be reproduced on demand but that's a bit off the Tesla topic.  And,
still classified by the govt.

Dr. Resonance


>>>>>>>>>Actually, its not really classified and it more common (and easy to
produce) than you think or so thats what i'm told.  I was talking to some
colleagues of mine recently who work at Los Alamos research facility and
asked them about it. They stated much of the secret of how to generate the
stuff had been solved on how to generate it in a controlled environment,
however it still is a mystery of both HOW and WHY it occurs naturally.

Basically, they've created it using high power microwave sources (2-3 GHz)
coupled to a specially designed waveguide cavity in such a way that the
microwave energy created some sort of interference mode in the cavity to the
point where plasma was created.  I didn't really ask about specifics as we
had lots of radar stuff to talk about, but they said that it was so easy to
do, that one could do even do it with an old microwave oven and some copper
mesh.  They kind of laughed when I said this was being heavily debated on
this newsgroup as to whether its possible or not.  They said, heck, the
japanese have been doing it almost since WWII!!!!!

Dan  



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