Electrolysis with lightning?

[Pirate88179]

I think that NYC a year thing is a myth. Ever watched a lightning protection ground wire, it's just a 8mm copper wire. The supply for 1 year NYC in half a second trough that cable??? I doubt it. Also, once a lightning stroke the ground just 30 feet from myself. Yes, it was freakin loud... and no delay of the thunder  KABOOM !!!!! , but I still can hear.


But of course, there's a lot of joules in there... But remember, electricity is always dangerous, even the mains grid can kill you, and HV can jump trough the air... which is exactly what lightning does. But basicly, we are living with a constant possibility from our roofs being struck by lightning and nonetheless we feel rather save inside.


BR

I agree that my professor was indeed generous with his figures.  I too have been close to a strike...although much farther away than 30 ft. (Holy Crap!!!) but i did experience the simultaneous flash/bang.  It kind of makes you not want to experiment with lightning.  It would be great to tap into that though.  The old complaint was that we never know where it is going to strike...well that has been solved now so all we have to do is build a huge, very huge supercap array that can store this energy, or at least a percentage of it.  Seems kind of ignorant that we have not done so as of yet.  Of course, I am not going to be the one to do it.

Bill

[Paul-R]

Getting power from lightning is very dangerous, one mistake and your crispy fried.   

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Death stalks those who fool with lightning. -  Attempting is the first mistake. No need for a second.
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[franco malgarini]

Detector lightning:

http://www.blitzortung.org/Documents/TOA_Blitzortung_RED.pdf?1415379102

Lightning rod ingelva:

http://www.ingelva.it/index.php?pid=4&lang=I&ncol=1


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[dieter]

Live is deadly, the sooner or later. We also use explosives to dig tunnels and do several useful things with dangerous forces. Men (and women) are capable of a lot.


Indeed it is a good question why we didn't tap that energy yet. One freak sparkgap is it, our sky... Probably Tesla was onto it.. Basicly the energy is there all the time, the lightning is just the breakdown.


BR

[ElectricPirate]

I think electrolysis from homopolar generator should work. Why not someone try it?