Corey White wrote:

I am designing an expiriment to test my theory.

who is paying for this, btw?

Lightning remains a mistery,

but not a *complete* mystery, see
http://science.howstuffworks.com/lightning.htm
and sublinks for example, which does indeed say that the charge
separation is not satisfactorily explored
http://science.howstuffworks.com/lightning2.htm

If you can recreate ball lightning, or indentify charge separation
mechanisms in clouds, I think people would be interested.

no one is certain how it forms in the air, but it is connected
to the water cycle and temperature from the sun.

I was thinking that it might be possible to create a water cycle
bio-dome expiriment. If I took a glass container, and filled it half
full with water. Then at the top of the container attatched a high
powered fan, as the water evaporated the fan would keep the vapors from
rising to the top and condensing on the glass surface. I think a cloud
might form in the water vapor at that stage. Then hopefully if there
is something to ground the energy of the cloud, like a piece of iron
floating in the water.. You might get minature lightning strikes.

you'll have to have quite a big cloud, I suspect. To cause a lightning
strike requires a high electric field, which requires a lot of charge,
which requires a lot of cloud. Also, if you do this in a confined
space, the droplets at the top of the cloud will probably move quickly
around the chamber (especially if there is a fan!), and neutralise any
other charges that may have arisen. In other words, I don't give you
much hope of succeeding.

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Considering I've interacted with ball lightning while praying on a clear
night, I think doing this is very possible.

sounds painful! How did it behave?

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