Re: Making lightning with a thin wire

"Ignoramus17570" <ignoramus17570@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Just thinkin' of some fun uses of my thumper.

Let's say that I have a high voltage capacitor that I can discharge at
will. If I connect it to a thin wire (24 ga or so), say a foot of it,
and put through a several kilovolt/kilojoule discharge, would the
exploding wire
create enough heat to ionize air sufficiently to create lightning
strike-like spark from the cap?

Another question, can such things be viewed with an autodarkening
welding helmet. (1/20,000th of a second darkening time)

i

Some researchers down south, use model rockets with fine wire attached and
attached to the earth to trigger lighting strikes when the conditions are
right. I guess if you have enough energy you can vaporize the wire.

Cheers


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