Comment by iugtmkbdfil834
Comment by iugtmkbdfil834 a day ago
So.. how long do we have before situational personal lightning bolt is a thing?
Comment by iugtmkbdfil834 a day ago
So.. how long do we have before situational personal lightning bolt is a thing?
The future is now: Check out Lightning On Demand, https://lod.org/ (Tesla tower approach & scientific motivations) & https://youtu.be/lix-vr_AF38?si=w78LyF9tlxGJB8Ay (capacitor driven Lorentz plasma cannon demo)
Apparently they already have the ability to create lightning bolts in the lab for testing. Maybe they can license that.
> we conducted artificial lightning tests on drones equipped with the lightning protection cage. The results showed that the system withstood artificial strikes of up to 150 kA—five times greater than the average natural lightning strike—without any malfunction or damage, covering over 98% of naturally occurring lightning conditions.