RE: making ball lightning… The Corums did lots of work on this and I have a video that James Corum gave me which shows their efforts…
There were three prerequisites to making ball lightning (plasma balls): - Hi-voltage potentials - Carbon particles (note that simply burning a candle or small piece of wood for several minutes is enough to load the air with carbon soot) - Can’t remember what the third one was! J R U gonna make me dig out the video and watch it??? Now, the Corum’s work may be somewhat different from lightning-storm generated ball lightning, the former being much higher frequencies compared to frequencies present in a lightning discharge. One interesting effect in the Corum’s video is where they put a piece of dirty glass in the electric discharge path, and what happens when a plasma ball approaches it (say from left to right) is that it never physically touches the glass, but it shrinks on the left side of the glass while at the same time appears as a small ball on the right side of the glass and then grows to the same size and continues on its path. -Mark From: fznidar...@aol.com [mailto:fznidar...@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 4:59 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Nano dust fusion No hydrogen. No tests. I am still alive no ill effect. Titanium oxide is the white in paint. It is used in sunscreen. It is catalyst used in power plants. Its in make up. The data sheet states its mild. No danger from small amounts. Even water will kill you in to large amounts, just ask anyone who was on a sinking ship. I was trying to make a ball of lightning in atmospheric conditions. No luck. It tended to agglomerate under the high temp of a spark in my pressure chamber. Nothing remarkable. Frank
