Singing Tesla Coils

At Fermilab in Batavia, IL.

http://www.sebastianszyszka.com/stor.../tesla09_1.jpg

http://www.sebastianszyszka.com/stor.../tesla09_2.jpg

http://www.sebastianszyszka.com/stor.../tesla09_3.jpg

Striking images. . .literally. Beautiful shots. Especially like that second one.

yikes! sparky things in a nuclear research facility! Makes me nervous ... :D


My brother used to live right near there in Batavia, but I never got to visit.

Gary,

Thanks!

Opus,

You should rest easy knowing that Fermi is not, nor has ever been, a nuclear research facility. Robert Wilson, the founding director, worked on the Manhattan project. He left that behind to dedicate his life to peaceful research.

Fermi doesn't split atoms, it smashes particles! :p

Always wanted to visit there. Pictures are great, Seb. I agree with everyone else, two is my favorite.

Actually this reminds me of something I viewed on the science and discovery channel one day recently. Some researchers are trying to control lighting strikes! So far, by shooting a cetain gaseous combination into the sky they have had some success in luring the lighting to strike through the path of the gas allowing them to cause the lighting to hit where they want. Very primitive stages, but its main use could be for harnessing the power of lightening for energy purposes and also for military purposes.

It's more fun it make the Tesla Coils....:D

WOW! Those are really COOL looking! :D
Are those really Tesla Coils?
-Bruce

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researchers are trying to control lighting strikes!

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Evil geniuses 'r' us already have a design for that.
The Fist-Of-God revenge weapon.

Consists of:
Drainpipe
Battery/launch controller
Copper wire
Solid fuel rocket
Lightning detector
Small explosive shaped charge

Pipe hidden in auger hole.
Lightning detector controls rocket launch.
Shaped charge blows the soil off the top of the tube before launch
Rocket trails copper wire, earthed to metal drainpipe
Gets up to a few hundred feet
ZOT !
Lightning vapourises the copper wire and then multiple strikes up and down the metallised conductive path.
If the FoG is buried close to your target, it increases the chance of a strike.

I've read enough of the Wizard of ID to know lightning always goes Zot :)

And they can play music, too:
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Or make a hand portable gun
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/03...esla-coil-gun/

Very nice shots, Sebastian.
Smart Wombat - I hope my teens never see that, as we have really heavy lightening storms
almost ever day.