Monday, April 14, 2008

Laser Triggers Electrical Activity In Thunderstorm For The First Time

ScienceDaily -- A team of European scientists has deliberately triggered electrical activity in thunderclouds for the first time, according to a new paper in the latest issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal. They did this by aiming high-power pulses of laser light into a thunderstorm.

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