Looking for info: Ball lightning energy source

[Michel Van]

Wat i know

physicist named Plante proposed a energy source in 1950s
were compress oxygen and nitrogen is burn with electric arc
until become a Ball lightning was used as energy source of 20 million Joule
Edgar p. Jacobs used that concept in his comic "S.O.S. Meteors: Mortimer in Paris"
I saw a french newsreel that had same info.
got someone more info or even a book about that concept ?

thanks in advance