This Lightning Machine Covers An Entire Football Field

Insane. There’s no other adjective that can describe this mad project. A mad project that is perfectly doable: two 3m Tesla Coil towers separated by 80m. They will be capable of unleashing the energy of natural lightnings.

The Lightning Foundry is a project to re-create super-long discharge effects normally found only in lightning. Two 10-storey Tesla Coil towers will fill an area the size of a football field with lightning-like discharges hundreds of feet in length. If we trigger super-long discharge effects the arcs could strike considerably further.

These guys are totally serious about this. They know what they are doing too. They have created a 1:12 model of this project already, and they have produced multiple Tesla coils, including the 130,000-watt Electrum, the largest in the world.

Now they just need $US348,000 (you can check the cost breakdown here). It’s a lot of money, I know. But come on, don’t you want to see a lightning covering an entire football feet 10 storeys up in the air? Of course you do. Please collaborate and pass it around to your fellow megalomaniac evil-villian-at-heart nerd. [Lightning On Demand via Kickstarter via BoingBoing]