Tesla Coils are amazing. Two ten-story Tesla Coils are out of this world.

The Lightning Foundry Project is the brainchild of Greg Leyh founder of the Lightning on Demand organization. The project aims to build two ten-story Tesla coil towers separated by 260 feet. If completed, the towers will be able to shoot lightning-like discharges that will be hundreds of feet in length.

"Historically, new scientific machines produce unexpected discoveries," Leyh told the Epoch Times in an interview. "Many new discoveries are viewed as problems, where others provide fascinating new insights."

The organization isn't just building the Tesla Coils for the sheer cool factor but it also has a scientific use. The Lightning Foundry project is a way for scientists to study natural lightning in a safer environment. Studying lightning on a small scale doesn't replicate what actual lightning can do in the air. However if laboratory-scale electric arts grow past 200 feet in length they can gain lightning-like abilities. With these giant Tesla coils, the team at LOD can better understand the physics and behavior of lightning.

"Understanding how lightning forms is the first step towards being able to control where lightning strikes or being able to suppress it completely in certain areas," Leyh said.

The Lightning Foundry project will build the largest Tesla coils ever and the team plans to run the coils at full output of around 4 million watts. They will then increase the voltage to 14 million volts and change the distance between the towers to fully explore how normal electric arcs transform to lightning.

The team has already built a 1:12 scale model of the two Tesla coils. The team discovered that the coils can transmit wireless power and start a fire. The LOD team also built the world's first wirelessly powered vehicle using the electric field generated from the Tesla coils. The Tesla Roadster is a chair on wheels that can pull power from the electric field of the Tesla coils.

The team is now looking for generous individuals to fund the Lightning Foundry project over at Kickstarter.com. Currently the team has $30, 785 pledges out of their $348,000 goal before the December 10 deadline.

A Tesla coil is a high-frequency resonant air-core transformer invented by Nikola Tesla in 1891. It discharges electric arcs and creates extremely powerful electric fields. Tesla coils were used in spark gap radio transmitters for wireless telegraphy until the 1920s.