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The Lightning Foundry, a project to build the world’s largest tesla coils

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The Lightning Foundry is an ambitious project by Lightning On Demand to build two ten story tall Tesla coils that will generate super long discharge effects hundreds of feet in length, or in other words, man-made lightning. The Tesla coils would be the world’s largest, surpassing the current champion, Electrum, also by Lightning on Demand. San Francisco Bay Area-based LOD was founded in the 1990s by Greg Leyh, who has also worked with Survival Research Labs. via Laughing Squid

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Leyh is raising funds for the Lightning Foundry on Kickstarter.

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