Re: Golka video: Ball Lightning in lab. WHAT?!!!!!

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Original poster: William Beaty <billb@xxxxxxxxxx>

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Mike" <induction@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> But Bib also saw these in welders mask and with extra heavy (dark) filters
> on another mask, so really, under those conditions, his eyes could not be
> overloading as the text you spoke of says.

Bingo!  That's just the info I was wondering about.  If you wear dark
enough filters, and they still appear to shrink in size, then it's no
illusion.   (But how dark is 'dark enough?'   Casting their shadows on a
screen would remove all doubt.)

I wonder if they're some kind of metal foam.   But I'd think that an arc
would spray off some metal droplets, not some balls of bubbles.

Something else to try someday: let them fly into a container of liquid
nitrogen.   That should stop them fast.   Water isn't cold enough!


> They do spin like crazy and you can see a lot of vapor burn off in the
> clip. I also think that is aluminum you are looking at in the lower, near
> water, electrode. I just asked about that, yes base was aluminum, at one
> point moving bar was also, at another point moving bar was iron. But base
> electrode was always aluminum..
> Regarding the usage of AC transformers, he had one monster, I see it here
> and my opinion is it is at least a 50 or 60 KVA core. I see about 4 turns
> about MCM 600  Here are some references to the Pre-battery data , maybe
> also post battery, in these papers.
> GOLKA R.K. Laboratory-produced ball lightning. J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 99, p.
> 10,679-10,681, 1994.
> GOLKA R.K. Laboratory-produced ball lightning. Proc. 9th Intern. Conf. on
> Atmospheric Electricity, St. Petersburg, Vol. 3. p. 854-856, 1992.
> I also just asked about travel over surface other than water, he says water
> was easier to track them on, also movement was better on water, likely due
> to boundary layer effect.
> The thing about banging such a load with AC, you just never know where you
> are in the AC wave form. As you do a short, is it halfway up crossover, is
> it at zero crossover, is it at the peak? I'm sure you've plugged in a power
> supply that was on and the transformer bang as it brings up the filter caps
> in a big one could be silent, semi-loud or a real loud hum until the caps
> charge.
> Usually you don't care once the supply is on, you get the DC and move along.
> But in a short like this, you can be any place on the wave form.
> That is one reason, plus lots more bang current, the move was made to
> submarine batteries.
> Large shunts were borrowed from MIT and the currents in the paper indicate
> what he had off the transformer. I don't have that paper here but he does
> in his office not far away. And the reference is above.
> We have 24 volts worth of these (12 cells) wet charged and ready but they
> mostly run the UPS now (Many, Many days).
> If your doing a thing on the east coast maybe you can come zap your own. We
> can access the 10,000 FPS MIT camera, already have exploding wire stuff
> (which really looks more like bridge view of stars at warp from enterprise).
> Mike




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