Re: Ball Lightning

["Daniel L. MacIsaac" <Dan.MacIsaac@NAU.EDU>]

> I have not seen this discussed recently but I wonder what your reactions are
> to the following link, it is at worst very interesting:
>
> http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/oa_plasmoid.htm

David:

Microwaves are a legit and widely used method to create plasma.

There are peer-reviewed physics journal articles on microwave-driven plasma
research; see http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/tesla/ballgtn.html
for a partial list.   A more formal set of articles can be found in a
search of the AIP OJPS

http://ojps.aip.org/vsearch/servlet/VerityServlet?KEY=ALL&smode=strresults&CURRENT=&ONLINE=&SMODE=&possible1=microwave+plasma&possible1zone=article&bool1=and&possible2=&possible2zone=article&sort=rel&maxdisp=25&threshold=0&%5Bsearch%5D.x=0&%5Bsearch%5D.y=0&frommonth=&fromday=&fromyear=&tomonth=&today=&toyear=&fromvolume=&fromissue=&tovolume=&toissue=&page=1&origquery=&vdk_query=&chapter=0&docdisp=0&WriteToLog=YES

...which turned up 695 articles published by AIP on the keywords
"microwave plasma"

Or were you concerned about the many safety issues?

Dan, who has a bias in this case (my students just published a student
project on microwave demos; wait for it in TPT).

Dan MacIsaac, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northern AZ Univ
danmac@nau.edu          http://purcell.phy.nau.edu         PHYS-L list owner