Lightning Comes from Space

[erichknight]

Dear Folks:<br />I have been researching alturnative approaches to fusion power and started a correspondance with Clint Seward of Electron Power Systems involving fusion power a few months ago.<br /><br />A new thread has evolved,one of the top lightning researcher in the world, Joe Dwyer at FIT, got his Y-ray and X-ray research published in the may issue of<br />Scientific American,<br /><br /><br />http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=00032CE5-13B7-1264-8F9683414B7FFE9F<br /><br />Dwyer's paper:<br />http://www.lightning.ece.ufl.edu/PDF/Gammarays.pdf<br /><br /><br />and according to Clint Seward it supports his lightning models and fusion work at EPS, Electron Power Systems<br />www.electronpowersystems.com/ .<br /><br />He proposes applications as varied as home power generation@ .ooo5 cents/KW hr, cars, distributed power, airplanes, space propulsion , power storage and kinetic weapons. <br /><br />And also provides a theoretic base for ball lightning:<br /><br />Ball Lightning Explained as a Stable Plasma Toroid http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20020209/bob8.asp<br /><br />Clint sent me his new paper on a lightning charge transport model of cloud to ground lightning (If your interested I'll send it,he did not want me to post it to the web yet) and if Joe concurs with it's theory it could mean big press for EPS.<br /> <br /> It may also explain Elves, blue jets, sprites and red sprites, plasmas that appear above thunder storms. After a little searching, this seemed to have the best hard numbers on the observations of sprites.<br /><br />Dr. Mark A. Stanley's Dissertation <br /><a target="_blank"></a>

 

[vogon13]

Appreciate the follow up to the Scientific American article.<br /><br />Thanx, and welcome to SdC. <br /><br /><br />{BTW, beware of the Trund}<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[alokmohan]

I too appreciate.

 

[erichknight]

Please tell..........what is a Trund?????????<br /><br />Erich

 

[Grok]

If we could learn how to control and harness lightning, wouldn't it be a unending source of energy? Are you guys looking into that possibility long term?

 

[vogon13]

Ref. to a very old BC comic. Sound a rock makes when it bounces off your head. <br /><br />Just friendly advice. Most (but not all) posters are friendly nice folks here.<br /><br />(Lots of Johnny Harts' humor in that strip is lithologically derived)<br /><br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>