How to build a Stable Plasmoid at one atmosphere

Advanced Reduced Drag Aircraft project
By Jean-Louis Naudin
created on February 23th, 2000 - JLN Labs - Last update February 27th, 2000



I am glad to present you a very simple experiment that you can conduct yourself with common material that you already have in your house. This experiment will allow you to see and check by yourself that a stable Plasmoid ( an artificial Plasma Ball ) can be created in air ( at a pressure of one atmosphere ). This simple and basic experiment is one of the main part of the working principle of an enhanced EHD Plasma reactor used in some advanced flying crafts ( see the Active GDP skin principle )...

This experiment has already been tested successfully by many ball lightning experimenters in the world. I am grateful to Alexandre Szames for this fascinating experiment that he has recently suggested to me.

BE CAREFUL : Don't forget that the Plasmoid generates ozone (O3) and nitrogen oxydes ( NO and NO2), so you need to do this experiment in an open and well ventiled area. If you do it the risk of any results is just yours. I take no responsibility of anything that might happen to yourself or your material.