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Teramobile laser triggers lightning strikes

Posted: 21 Apr 2008  Print Version  Bookmark and Share Subscribe

Keywords: lightning strikes  Teramobile laser  plasma filaments  lightning's mechanisms  effects on infrastructure 

[Summary of tips] Since Benjamin Franklin conducted his famous kite experiments, harnessing lightning strikes has been a fascination. Strikes have been deliberately conducted to the ground by rockets spooling long wires behind them, but that technique has only been successful about 50 percent of the time. Now a team of European scientists has tr......
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