It would be incredible if that energy could be harnessed. During the monsoon season here in north central Arizona the lightening is extraordinary. Some of the lightening bolts are immense, in particular when it hits the rich iron-oxide rock formations in and around the Mogollon Rim.

I don't know but it is very much paralleling what he did do.

I would love to know whether this is true! Is there any hard evidence Rand was familiar with, or influenced by, Tesla's work and achievements, besides the obvious similarities?

So you say John Gault was modeled on Nikolas Tesla? That seems to apply, including the frustration with government..

Galt. (Did you read Atlas Shrugged?). Ayn Rand used the same idea in an earlier story, "Think Twice" (1939). Rand was not especially good at science or mathematics. (Late in life, she hired a private tutor in algebra just for her own enjoyment.) But ideas about capturing energy from the atmosphere go back to Benjamin Franklin and other "electricians" of the Enlightenment. (For his work, Franklin was inducted into the Royal Society.) Like anti-gravity or FTL, "free energy" is a common idea.

Your welcome! Old UglyCarl introduced me
If you like there is a YouTube channel with many
Fascinating vids to learn from.https://www.youtube.com/user/ThunderboltsProj...

Dob............you betcha........and thx for the video

I was just questioning the low electron density for a lightning strike. Your first article deals with a plasma density in a Wake field accelerator. Nothing like lightning.
An ampere is the current flow of 6.24 x 10^18 charge carriers moving past a point per second. So 30,000 amperes would be 30000 x 6.24 x 10^18 = 1.872 x 10^23 charges per second in the plasma and for lightning it would appear that, if spread over a cubic meter would by a bit more than the density for the Wake field plasma.

You are an expert I am not a physicist but a quick google had this formula pop up again and again in scientific papers. 1024/m3 electron density
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http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/accelcon...
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Plasma density is equal to 1024 m3, laser field. 4x1011 V/m, laser pulse ... 03 Alternative Particle Sources and Acceleration Techniques. A22 Plasma Wakefield ..
.Capturing coefficient increase and energy spread decrease in LPWA
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10....
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to form a plasma wave and accelerate a fraction of the injected particles or a probe beam [2]. Another ... The problem of electron acceleration in plasma channel with varying density produced .... Plasma density is equal to
1024 m3, laser field.
Laser Fundamentals - Page 362 - Google Books Result
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1...
William T. Silfvast - 2008 - ‎Science
We can see that (10.47) is just the distance the electrons travel divided by ... electron concentration nc of 1024/m3,

1024/m3 is a very low electron density. Perhaps it should be 10^24/m^3 or 10e24/m^3 or 10E24/m^3.
Your density is only one electron per 976.5 cubic centimeters far fewer than a static discharge from a build up from rubbing feet on a carpet.

Nah.
I think he's gone into Real Estate.

If we made a dollar a point, this board would be glutted to death with writers.
A new thought just jumped out of the box~
George Soros would probably pay an army of mouse coward trolls to land in The Gulch.

You only make points...and they are...uh... pretty useless actually....

get John Gault, of course.....:)

I saw an article where they discussed a study released just recently, indicating a relationship between earth, thunderstorms and sprites, as well as their specific colors. I have to find it again, but it looked very interesting..

He was a very interesting person, and it was no wonder the FBI immediately went to his house on his death, and confiscated every scrap, never to be seen again.....

Hi BT, Thanks for the+++s
The Thunderbolts Project and the Electric universe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AUA7...
Many great videos this is just 1 of them

Gamma Ray flash from Earth-sprites? Earth spots, flares? Sounds like a Sun

I really like that info..........and the last paragraph very interesting..............appreciate........++++ to the nth................................BT

This came up before. Jan told me about it. Sounds good to me, but the lemming still hear "reactor", and scream "but it could destroy Saturday's"

So...how do we harness the energy?
We still haven't mastered fusion. C'mon science - hurry up, already!

Just told Dobrien below this would make a good post all unto itself.
I'll be polite and wait until Sunday. If no one picks it up, I'm on it.
I find plenty of posts. No one pays me to do it anyway . . .

Me dino just watched it! Yours doesn't work. Mine does. Nyah!
https://www.ted.com/talks/kirk_sorens...
This would make a good post.

Doubt it ever will be.

Thanks TreJ's,
Kirk Sorensen: Thorium, an alternative nuclear fuel | TED Talk | TED.cc
Video for THORIUM▶ 9:59
https://www.ted.com/.../kirk_sorensen......