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A significant portion of Greener’s presentation focused on the mysterious phenomenon of ball lightning—a natural electrical occurrence observed during thunderstorms. He detailed research into ball lightning's formation, touching upon experiments that replicate its properties synthetically.
Research from Italy and the U.S. Air Force suggests that ball lightning involves complex plasma structures, which might be harnessed for nuclear fusion or energy generation. Notably, experiments producing "crenelated microspheres"—iron-rich structures with signatures similar to natural ball lightning—point toward the possibility of using such phenomena to develop compact, controlled fusion systems.