Can We Harness Lightning as an Energy Source? #shorts

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[willowmoon]

Lightning also has an unconvenient habit of doing whatever the f*ck it wants, so trying to capture it would definitely result in the equipment getting fried as it breaches containment.

[True_Knight]

There was a crazy scientist in the mid 50s that found a way to harness this power for transportation purposes.

[SangoProductions]

The biggest issue would be the lack of reliability of thunder strikes.

[Istandby]

Research Atmospheric Apparatus from the 1890's to the 1920's. Many people including Nikola Tesla tried to do the same thing.

[mrmattbassett]

Dude, have you not seen Back to the Future? Doc Brown figured this out over 50 years ago.

[Roguescienceguy]

It actually is possible, but not as lightning persé. There is always a potentialdifference between different points in our planet. Hence they tested that in LEO once and with success. The method involved a long kilometer long copper wire dropped from the space shuttle in 1993. The tether produced between 50 and 100 volts while traveling through the earths magnetic field.

[Scriabin_fan]

I was actually thinking about this a couple of days ago during a big thunderstorm lol. I also came to the conclusion that it probably wouldn't be worth it.

[augustwest]

Yes I agree with this with one exception. Building a complex capture and storage system would yield technologies and designs that will be useful in other fields and products....
I'm not saying build a worldwide system, but demonstrating that you could capture and store a 🌩️ ⚡ would have benefits elsewhere.

[JoeBeaudette]

If I’m not mistaken lightning is all voltage and very little actual current. It’d be like trying to win a boxing match by slapping your opponent a hundred times with a tortilla

[damoon]

Harness it? In the words of Porky Pig, "Verwy verwy carefullwy!"

[hoodman]

Great Scott that's a massive capacitor.

[buzzlightyearg]

If your trying to randomly predict where the lightning is going to hit not worth it but if you have it directed to certain places in places with high lightning strike using maybe a beam of light or sound wave at the right frequency might help direct lightning

[WasabiSniffer]

i imagine the true expense is in implementing those systems for something that's difficult to predict, or at least, happens EVERYWHERE rather than in one place. the only place I can think of is Relámpago del Catatumbo in Venezuela. certainly the entirety of the human race uses a lot more but at least for a smaller region it might be worth looking into

[Wake]

What about that lake in Venezuela that gets _A LOT!_ of lightning strikes??

[Mrblazed]

Would it be possible to replicate the way lighting is made to make energy i am dumb so a pretty dumb question now i think about it

[lianchinlalguite]

Stardust haven't seen that movie in years.
It was a good movie.

[Econ]

So we can't have Gorda City from Ratchet and Clank?

[chefdean]

Ya don't harness it for energy. It's only use is powering the flux capacitor. 🤓

[jakubznojemsky]

1M Joules sounds great BUT...
since 1J=1W*s
thus 1 MJ could power 1kW apliance for some 15-20min
Which means you could make full electric teapot 3 times and you're done.
Wish it would be this powerfull brew but rather lighting is just flash and shine but no work.

[max_power]

1 million joules? I thought a bolt of lightning contained 1.21 gigawatts!