Shooting Lightning Across a Room?

[@nathanv5518]

Two Illinois Energy Prof videos within a decade? You’re spoiling us.

[@WillProwse]

😂😂

[@skeetrix5577]

perfect

[@rdc5551]

That sounded like a Ferraro Rocher advert from the 80’s

[@eldenfindley186]

Lmao true

[@WarriorBane]

Lol

[@Kitsudote]

Having this guy as a teacher must be a blast.

[@hamentaschen]

10:39 "But will it jump from Zombie to Zombie?" I never, ever would have thought I would hear those words, coming from you, so 'matter-of-factly' on this channel. Thank you for your recent uploads.

[@codyhoche8888]

My guy writes backwards this is the hidden skill of this epic prof

[@TheShuckmeister]

Thanks so much for helping me with this! I really appreciate it and loved you class!

[@nbme-answers]

I-L-L !

[@chipworrell6025]

Scott Manley and Joe Scott can only dream of content this quality.

[@MrGigaHurtz]

11:17 I think he has a whole chain mail suit on

[@steveamsp]

That's the way they usually do this, yes. Maybe with a backup wire between the rods, but has the chainmail for general protection.

[@randyhavener1851]

Thank you David!!! You're spoiling us & we love it!! Fun project and quite educational!!

[@ELMS]

Fabulous to see you. You’re a natural and the information in your videos is always fascinating and interesting.

[@jamesfurr9544]

He’s back! Hey Dr. Ruzic!!!!!!!🎉

[@leodikinis7390]

Great to see that you are back David! Just thinking about you the other day and getting worried that you haven't posted any new content as of late.

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

Take a look at "Ukraine's Nuclear Reactors" from about a month ago. Thanks for the comment!

[@sarcasmo57]

And that's what I need to know about shooting lightning across the room.

[@anchorbait6662]

Professor - Shooting lightning bolts across a room. "This is clearly a fun topic." Me - "not if you're a lightning bolt"

[@EricTViking]

Your students are lucky to have such an awesome Prof!

[@lukedowneslukedownes5900]

This is actually amazing thank you

[@The_Professor_]

Great video for user engagement. Came for the nuclear reactors, stayed for the obscure science

[@skeetrix5577]

I would be all too happy if he remade all his nuclear videos without the goddamn squeaky pen that makes me want to die everytime I hear it

[@ErwinPommel]

Just remember that while doing it, you have to shout "UNLIMITED POWAAAAAAH!!!!!"

[@cuttsfamily9082]

Thanks for educating us!

[@HFMartini6]

the picture with the guy that lets flow the current from the Tesla coil to the caged wall was taken at the Technorama in Winterthur Switzerland.

[@KLeBoutillier]

The Prof is back! Two vids in a week or so. Awesome.

[@yellowbiker7286]

Love ur videos. Thanks for information. Could you please make a video about neutron bomb. Thank you 🥰👍

[@Kanner111]

Every time I think about this stuff I end up remembering about the 'charged bolts' spell from Diablo/Diablo 2, which was an electrical current, released as a series of independent sparks, that moves slowly and randomly across the GROUND towards your enemies. While it works pretty well as a fun game mechanic, I'm still convinced that the whole point of the spell was to design the absolute least physically possible bit of magic conceivable! The *really* difficult thing wrt this topic, is how to convince a plasma travelling through the air to remain in a line parallel to the ground. (Probably anything that could do this would itself already make a far deadlier weapon than the actual lightning bolt would, so ???) Anyway, this is a fantastic video on at least a couple of levels and it is really cool that Prof Ruzic is leaning into this direction just a little. =)

[@enriquelichtenstein6675]

I wish you'd make more videos!!

[@TehHighSniper]

Unrelated to the video, but we need to get him on Rogan’s podcast to talk about Nuclear and a few other topics he has covered exceptionally well. This channel is truly a hidden gem.

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

Thank you!

[@richturc]

I really enjoy all of the material you present! Thanks for all of your informative videos!

[@chadzilla8388]

Seeming that you uploaded a video made my morning. thank you and keep up the great work. (Please)

[@christophergilbert5988]

6:26 This frequency actually is not in the range of music, and is actually above the range of human hearing. The way some tesla coils play music is by switching the 20kHz signal on and off at a much slower frequency (e.g., like 440 Hz).

[@CAINE1984]

I was really stressing Zombie plasma guns. It was keeping me up at night. Thank you professor, for easing my fears on the subject!!

[@southelgindad]

A great scientist already answered the question of how much power we need: 1.21 gigawatts.

[@Skhillz_FN]

See Prof. This is why I need your post more often Asking the real questions in science 😂 Hungry minds starve on bad nutrition I'm feeding from this thank you Prof.

[@chipworrell6025]

You Tube really needs a super mega like button.

[@Farmer-bh3cg]

Thanks very much for a fun video! While it prob'ly wouldn't work all that well, it's still good to have a back-up to my MG 42... Thanks again!

[@takeoyf]

Thanks for your videos, Dr Ruzic

[@raylopez99]

Yeah he's back! Tesla...

[@TheRWS96]

Very cool video but here is a question: as you need a certain amount of power to go a certain distance depending on the resistance between those two points would it work to incorporate a Lazer (or radiation source beam) that heats the air to lower the resistance, could that be a more realistic way of doing it?

[@windsurfredbull1111]

Love the videos Sir keep them coming

[@chrisdehmel6161]

We LOVE your videos. I tell people all the time that I learned about nuclear fission because of you (and KZbin, and covid).

[@markuse3472]

Professor Ruzic is not only honestly smart, but a very good person. Had Genius Tesla not been persecuted by greedy and spiteful people, he would have given us much more science which we would have been using much earlier than today.

[@ttystikkrocks1042]

Well that was fun! Keep them coming!!

[@clexrollins6885]

The guy the lighting going through him is probably a chain-mail suit or something similar. I believe linemen that work on high tension lines use them and I have herd they tingle a little.

[@Supermarine0Spitfire]

Always nice to see you upload sir! Just a thought for that experimental Tesla gun: Could the amount of time that the arc is "active" be shortened? I'm trying to relate the Tesla gun to a conventional firearm. Once a bullet is fired, the amount of time between the primer being fired and the bullet impacting a target is short (not counting flight time).

[@clownhands]

Illinois EnergyProf’s dry sense of humor is like if Al Franken was a nuclear physicist

[@abrahamlincoln9758]

Palpatine: DO IT.

[@dernudel1615]

Kyle Hill called, he wants his schtick back.

[@insanitysportal6692]

My dad worked in the physics department while I was in HS and showed me this little wand that could shoot "lightning" across a gap of about a foot (of course it only worked against metal, but still...super cool)

[@NicolasGanea]

Are you going to the energy event in Texas hosted by Digital wildcats?

[@pablopicaro7649]

Haven't seen a new video in quite awhile - and "this is NOT all what you needed to know"

[@James-zh6nf]

Waiting for the fusion video…

[@James-zh6nf]

Also a few questions, does this accomplishment benefit tokamak reactors as the surplus energy was created in a different type of reactor? How long before we solve the tritium problem. Is the USA’s goal of commercial reactors in ten years viable?

[@nytehawx]

Wait, couldn't you use a laser to have partial ionization channel and then create the spark.

[@lukedowneslukedownes5900]

I wish you gave us the calculation for energy needed for our atmosphere so we can test different areas or atom spaced atmospheres

[@mohamedjbali1493]

awesome video. thank you

[@Manuqtix.Manuqtix]

Hi Illinois energy prof Is warp drive technology possible?

[@davep2115]

I wonder how those hanging leaders generate photons if there's no current. I think fundamentally the bright path is the heavy current, but all the others have already ionized and are carrying current as well.

[@kaz42]

I am a little bit confused. IIRC the charge is measured in Coulombs and the electric potential difference is in Volt.

[@liddell157]

Please make more videos !!

[@gulfrasta5844]

One final comment. You gotta play The Immigrant Song like Thor in Ragnarok when you set that thing off. Maybe invite Chris Hemsworth next time.

[@oldsteamguy]

so, in the end, there is no shooting a plasma, just shooting charge which creates a plasma as a byproduct?

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

yep.

[@paulanderson7796]

How do you charge a capacitor with alternating current?

[@chrismack5908]

Does plasma or light have mass? And if not, why? This sounds like fun, too!

[@ZJasko]

Nice content as always 😁Take a look at the SKELCAP capacitors from Skeleton Technologies some can be discharged at 80kW/kg 🤯 and store up to 6.8Wh/kg ( ~25kJ/kg) perfect for building a small magnetic Railgun 😉

[@richardburden6035]

Good debunk of the free energy maliciously attributed to Tesla! The Tesla coil achieves interesting visible and audible effects and high voltages, but it's not an economical way to transmit or store electricity, and not a way to generate electricity at all.

[@badddkattt]

Very interesting I want that gun! RE applying sparks to humans: I actually own three “violet wands” which are based on antique quack medical “violet ray” devices which applied high voltage high frequency energy for a variety of health conditions, and are still sold for “beauty.” Now used in some industry applications and in BDSM for kinky fun, as far as I know no unfortunate deaths have occurred. Glass electrodes or external spark gaps provide protection from 120 volt line current if there is an internal failure with violet wand BDSM play. One of the devices I own is is an Electro-Techic Products BD-20 which is a true Tesla coil with line isolation and an internal spark gap as shown in your schematic, my understanding is that with the coils providing line isolation and with an internal spark gap the user and the recipient of the sparks is protected from the line voltage, even without an external spark gap. Am I missing anything?

[@nycameleon]

question: Could you increase gun range by creating artificial leaders that are shot by the gun creating favorable atmosphere so you don't need crazy high voltage?

[@johnb8184]

Yeah, it's called a TASER.

[@susanyoung6579]

Yes, they've existed for decades and are used as anti-tank weapons. A soldier carries a backpack with a gasoline powered generator inside and an air rifle attached. To use it, the backpack is taken off and a connected grounding rod driven into the ground. The generator is started which produces a high voltage that is directed into the bayonet on the tip of the air rifle. The paint pellets are doped with a radioactive substance so the projectile leaves an ionized trail to the target. It doesn't blow the tank up or vaporize it or anything like that but it does fry the electronics inside thus disabling the vehicle.

[@se_mat]

Could you combine a railgun with this? Making the plasma and concentrate it with the magnets (Helium cooled) to then push forward?

[@TheWlarsong]

2 Videos in a month!!! Christmas came early this year!

[@paulanderson7796]

Audio clipping needs resolving.

[@johansenjuwp]

like lightning, wouldn't you need an x-ray or cosmic like ray to lengthen the negative leader?

[@-GrimEngineer-1337]

Or you could use an electrolaser. The right power and frequency of laser can ionize a pathway toward an object in a few microseconds, then fire the tesla coil and it will follow the ionized path.

[@surmanator89]

I guess this is a lazy question but what factor limits lightning from striking? Is it the quantity of charged particles? The distance between them? How far is too far or what quantity of charge is too small for lightning to strike?

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

The best prevention is the old-fashioned lightning rod -- a lot of them about every 30 feet or so. Lightning rods do not attract lightning, they actually pull the free charges out of the air and short them to ground so the positive leader can not form near them. Then the lightning hits somewhere else where their are no rods.

[@gustavomalvaez932]

Please some day talk about thorium as a fuel option for nuclear energy.

[@liddell157]

Cmon professor put out some more videos!!

[@lightdark00]

We need to get you some really high AC and see what you could do with it!

[@danielaramburo7648]

Darth David…. Sith Lord.

[@CheaddakerT.Snodgrass]

I finally figured out how he's able to write on a clear surface but we see it correctly. I'll let everyone take a guess. Many had ideas when I first asked if anyone knew over a year ago. I believe they were all wrong.

[@sl600rt]

Would you take an appointment as US Secretary of Energy? You missed something. You can use a laser to ionzie the air and create a conductive path for electricity. The US Army tested such a device in 2012.

[@pablopicaro7649]

Hi is not a Political Hack that will implement Woke Leftist nonsense

[@geonerd]

Guessing a powerful laser could create a partially ionized path?

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

Yes. But of course if the laser was that powerful, you could just shoot them with the laser......

[@stl1321]

Thanks, what happens if you shoot a tesla coil at a tesla coil?

[@WmSrite-pi8ck]

Your sound levels are blowing out. Lower it on the lav mic and, if necessary, bump it in the software. The lavalier mic shouldn't be hitting the top of the range. If you aren't wearing headphones to monitor the sound while recording, you should be. Nice video. You can buy plasma guns to slice metal at tool stores. We call them plasma cutters.

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

I did notice the sounds was too loud. We are not professionals at the recording technology part, but will try to do better. Plasma cutters are really neat things and I do have something like that in the lab, but they only work over a short distance.

[@Jkauppa]

capacitive coupling, over the air capacitor ac power transfer

[@Jkauppa]

electrostatic high voltage van de graaf generator dome fusion acceleration field

[@dantreadwell7421]

That or he's wearing a Faraday suit.

[@thanksfernuthin]

Very cool. I believe I've heard reports that some victims of lightning strikes said they felt something just before the strike... the leader. Is this likely or their imagination or scrambled memory? It would have to be the leader from the ground? If it was from the cloud the strike would happen immediately I'm guessing. The fantasy is... you feel it and are able to jump into a ditch or something and save yourself. Never heard of anyone doing that though.

[@shanebluett5560]

I remember reading in a phone book back in 2000 in Perth, Western Australia about what to do in an electrical storm and it said that if you get a bad feeling about were you are, move straight away do not wait or so something like that

[@Wes8761]

Current passes through corona discharge. You can observe corona if you have 2 HVDC electrodes just a little too far from one another to arc, it appears like a bright purple glow at each site. Current will pass through corona before a lightening strike since it will be "building up" to arc/strike in a sense. Id imagine this feels like hair standing on end, maybe static shocks/tingles..

[@justin3594]

How about a video on tactical nukes.

[@dewiz9596]

We can use some fun in our lives these days. . .

[@fredflintstone8048]

This demonstrates Tesla's failure, his lack of knowledge regarding his open air power distribution system he was trying to build.. He built a tower to try and do it, but not only was it incredibly inefficient, the range of the electric field was very short. He's touted as a genius but.... He did work with transformers and properly pushed for AC power distribution over DC systems teaming up with Westinghouse, but he was not the inventor of the transformer.

[@ewsdneax61eaxe10]

How i wish i was luckier in life and had him as my teacher😒

[@zenriyakaruvyin8273]

compressed aragonite and neon wrapped in a glass ball wrapped ina faris lattice fired out of a Mass-Driver or ArcRail, ben done ages ago dude. Nobel gas excitation by means of EMFE exposure is the founding principle of military grade plasma rounds for rail guns and mass drivers.

[@zenriyakaruvyin8273]

its not a lightning bolt its a compressed plasma pulse channeled down an EMFE tube fired out of a director at the end of the fireing emitter. coupled with smart targeting systems, the next gen rails and mass drivers will ping a target, emfe tube them, and hit em with a plasma pulse, or alternatively leave the emfe tube and targeting active and lay continuse pulses downstream.

[@zenriyakaruvyin8273]

neon out of a 2MJ hot cap powered rail will melt 4 inches of AR500.

[@thijsd]

Ah, someone who still knows how to use the words "literally" in a correct way

[@jam206AR]

Where have u gone? The internet needs based good dudes like you. Your like the Jordan Peterson of Energy. Plz come back and talk about nuclear more.

[@I..cast..fireball]

20khz is at the very high end of what healthy young ears can hear. No one can hear 40 khz. Still great vid tho.

[@illinoisenergyprof6878]

good point. I should have said a lower number, but the concept is still right.

[@skeetrix5577]

IM SO HAPPY YOU FINALLY DONT HAVE PENS THAT SQUEAK NOW PLEASE GO BACK AND REMAKE ALL YOUR SQUEAKY VIDEOS SO I CAN WATCH THEM. I CAN ONLY TOLERATE THE SQUEAKY NOISE FOR A FEW SECONDS BEFORE I HAVE TO TURN IT OFF ITS WORSE THAN NAILS ON A CHALKBOARD ITS THE WORST SOUND EVER PRODUCED IT IMMEDIATELY BRINGS ON SQUEAMISHY SENSATION AND A HORRIBLE FEELING IN MY HEAD PLEASE REMAKE YOUR VIDEOS PROFESSOR I LOVE YOUR CONTENT

[@susanyoung6579]

One nitpick. It's the amperage flowing across your heart that kills you, not the voltage. Also at high frequencies the current remains close to the surface due to the skin effect. Thus it's entirely possible that man is not hiding a wire under his shirt though it's not a terrible idea for him to do so. I'll note you held the gun in your right hand and the apple in your left. Your left hand was the return to ground in that circuit.

[@tortugaranch7273]

So rods Of GOD is possible

[@gulfrasta5844]

Could you make a weapon out of that for the Ukrainians? Asking for a friend.

[@Kriss_L]

I know people who work on military EW jamming pods. Some times they have to work on them when energized, and on occasion an electric arc will shoot around the lab a couple of times. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/ALQ-99