  The physical mechanisms of periodic separation and relaxation of electric
charges within aerosol particles possessing the properties the short-circuited
batteries can be extremely diverse. With use of appropriate materials and
dispersing methods, the electrochemical, thermoelectric, thermionic,
pyroelectric, photoelectric, photo electronic emission, or even
radionuclide-based emission micro and nano-batteries can be synthesized and be
dispersed in the air as clouds self-assembed of the short-circuited aerosol
batteries due to the inter-particle electromagnetic dipole-dipole attraction.
Intense thermionic emission from ionized hot spots migrating on the relatively
cold surface of charged explosive particles, can convert these particles into
short-circuited thermionic batteries, turning an aerosol cloud consisting of
such unipolar charged, gradually decomposing explosive particles into ball
lightning. The slow exothermic decomposition of the highly sensitive explosive
aerosol particles, catalyzed by excess ions on their surface, and also
ion-catalyzed reactions of slow water vapor induced oxidation of charged
combustible aerosol particles underlie two main classes of natural ball
lightning. At the same time, the artificially generated clouds consisting of
such unipolar charged aerosol nanobatteries, probably, can have some useful
applications, not only military ones. In particular, it seems that
high-performance pyroelectric fusion reactors could be created on the basis of
such ball-shaped aerosol clouds self-assembled of pyroelectric nanocrystals -
short-circuited pyroelectric nanobatteries.
