On Friday, November 3, 1989 at 8:46:08 AM UTC-8, Albert Boulanger wrote:
In article <1989Oct28.1...@prometheus.UUCP>, Paul M. Koloc cites:
Three references on the PLASMAK(tm) Configuration / PMK :
J. R. ROTH*, "Ball Lightning as a Route to Fusion Energy",
Paper 29-P-14 presented to the 13th Symposium on Fusion
Engineering, Oct 2-6, 1989.
and
P.M. KOLOC, "The PLASMAK(TM) Configuration and Ball Lightning,"
presented at the First International Symposium on Ball
Lightning, Tokyo, JAPAN (July 1988).
This reminds me. What ever happened to the work of Geert Dijkhuis?
Here is a citation:
"Themonuclear Energy from Ball Lightning"
Proceedings of the 14th Intersociety Energy Conversion Conference
Boston MA, August 5-10, 1979, American Chemical Society, Wash DC, Vol.
2, 1614-1617.
The general idea that he and others had was that there was some kind
of transition to a superconducting state with large enough currents, >
~150KA in typical lightning channels (so probably current density),
that occurs in:
1) Positive return strokes. (Often between the anvil of a thundercloud
and ground at the end of a T-Storm.)
2) When submarine batteries are switched. Geert was using submarine batteries.
In Geert's work, the stability of the plasma was due to the fact that
the hydrodynamics was London's equation. For a good book on empirical
work on Ball lightning see:
Ball Lightning and Bead Lightning
James Barry
Plenum Press, 1980
Cheers,
Albert Boulanger
BBN Systems & Technologies
aboul...@bbn.com
Nice.
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