Re: Lightning Generator

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• Subject: Re: Lightning Generator
• From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
• Date: Sun, 04 May 1997 09:48:56 -0500
• Approved: tesla-at-stic-dot-net

Subject:     Re: Lightning Generator
      Date:  Sat, 03 May 1997 19:40:55 EDT
      From:  wb8jkr-at-juno-dot-com (Mark S Graalman)
        To:  tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
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On Sat, 03 May 1997 01:12:26 -0500 Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> writes:
>Subject:       RE: Lightning Generator
>       Date:   Thu, 01 May 1997 20:02:45 GMT
>       From:   robert.michaels-at-online.sme-dot-org (Robert Michaels)
>Organization:  Society of Manufacturing Engineers
>         To:   tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>
>  SNIPED:

>        Welcome to the the group!
>
>        If you're interested in Tesla coils - you =have= come to
>        the right place.
>
>        If you're interested in lightning generators you have made
>        a wrong turn on the information super-highway.  Lightning
>        is essentially the hyperbolic opposite of the discharges
>        to be obtained from Tesla coils!
>
>        Tesla current is =high frequency= high voltage, essentially
>        ac.
>
>        Lightning is static electricity - essentially dc.
>
>        Don't despair - I've excellent news:  There is but one way
>        to generate Tesla current - Tesla coils (surprise!).
>

>
>                                Regards,
>
>                                Robert Michaels - Detroit, USA
>
>
   I'm afraid I'd have to disagree with that statement Robert, static
simply implies potential, not AC or DC. A lightning stroke has a
fast rise time, it is a RF voltage.

                        Mark Graalman

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