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taylaron
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hey all,
has it ever been possible or even attempted to capture the vast amount of electricty there is in lightning?
all that ground wire is in almost every non-stationairy device leads into the ground. (kind of waisting electricity in my opinion)
why can't we use all this energy going into the ground. espcially lightning because it is the process of a massive static discharge.
i asked around and i got the reply "nothing can hold that amount of energy for that long of a time. nothing could stand the temperature of lightning."
and i suppose they're right. lightning is somewhat "hotter" than the sun.
but why can we use water (a conductor) as the conductor.
i have no clue what on Earth could be charged by a lightning strike in about 1/1000'th of a seccond. charging at that speed i suppose would be very diffucult
im simply asking why we're not harnessing all of natures energy. or potential energy in some cases. lightning has a lot of electric potential to us i think.
has it ever been possible or even attempted to capture the vast amount of electricty there is in lightning?
all that ground wire is in almost every non-stationairy device leads into the ground. (kind of waisting electricity in my opinion)
why can't we use all this energy going into the ground. espcially lightning because it is the process of a massive static discharge.
i asked around and i got the reply "nothing can hold that amount of energy for that long of a time. nothing could stand the temperature of lightning."
and i suppose they're right. lightning is somewhat "hotter" than the sun.
but why can we use water (a conductor) as the conductor.
i have no clue what on Earth could be charged by a lightning strike in about 1/1000'th of a seccond. charging at that speed i suppose would be very diffucult
im simply asking why we're not harnessing all of natures energy. or potential energy in some cases. lightning has a lot of electric potential to us i think.