http://www.impactlab.com/2008/04/14/laser-used-to-trigger-lightning-in-a-thunderstorm/ A laboratory of the future human experience Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:47:38 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.impactlab.com/2008/04/14/laser-used-to-trigger-lightning-in-a-thunderstorm/comment-page-1/#comment-9285 Laser Used to Trigger Lightning in a Thunderstorm « The Keelynet Blog Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:37:28 +0000 http://www.impactlab.com/2008/04/14/laser-used-to-trigger-lightning-in-a-thunderstorm/#comment-9285 [...] A UV laser definitely ionizes the air and one day soon we will seen UV Tasers that require no wires. A super high charge is builtup in the gun, the beam is aimed at the target and the electrical energy follows the beam to stun and even destroy (with enough energy) the target. “A team of European scientists has deliberately triggered electrical activity in thunderclouds for the first time by aiming high-power pulses of laser light into a thunderstorm. At the top of South Baldy Peak in New Mexico during two passing thunderstorms, the researchers used laser pulses to create plasma filaments that could conduct electricity. No air-to-ground lightning was triggered because the filaments were too short-lived, but the laser pulses generated discharges in the thunderclouds themselves up to several meters long.” - Source [...] [...] A UV laser definitely ionizes the air and one day soon we will seen UV Tasers that require no wires. A super high charge is builtup in the gun, the beam is aimed at the target and the electrical energy follows the beam to stun and even destroy (with enough energy) the target. “A team of European scientists has deliberately triggered electrical activity in thunderclouds for the first time by aiming high-power pulses of laser light into a thunderstorm. At the top of South Baldy Peak in New Mexico during two passing thunderstorms, the researchers used laser pulses to create plasma filaments that could conduct electricity. No air-to-ground lightning was triggered because the filaments were too short-lived, but the laser pulses generated discharges in the thunderclouds themselves up to several meters long.” – Source [...]

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