Re: Laser guided Tesla Coil

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Original poster: Chip Atkinson <chip@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yeah, the rocket was trailing a wire.  I remember seeing that on the
program.

This should probably jump to the hvlist.

Chip

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: Mike <megavolts61@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> At risk of continuing this thread,   I can imagine that if silver
> oxide or peroxide was mixed with the rocket engine solid fuel,   as
> an oxidizer,  then microscopic particles of silver would be dispersed
> with the exhaust and 'maybe'  create a conductive channel.
> Mike
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Since we are on this half way "on" half way "off" topic,  I remember
> a TV show on lightning where they were measuring the field strenght
> at a test site and at the proper time would launch a rocket.  The
> rocket's exhaust would create a trail of conductive gasses that would
> trigger a lightning strike at the test site.
>
> So.....    Has anyone tried to put a bottle rocket on top of the
> toroid to see what would happen.
>
> Gerry R."
>
>       Are you sure that rocket wasn't trailing a wire?  That's a
> standard technique in lightning research.
>
> Ed
>
>
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