Re: Electricity again
- From: "Sorcerer" <Headmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:37:30 GMT
"tadchem" <thomas.davidson@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Sorcerer wrote:
| > "tadchem" <thomas.davidson@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
| > news:1155076760.226545.83170@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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| > | Teja wrote:
| > | > tadchem wrote:
| > | >
| > | > >
| > | > > You should then be able to answer your own question.
| > | > Well i'm still 13 yrs old and u cant expect me to make all that
| > | > calculations pretty fast
| > |
| > | Let me hand you the answer, then. We simply do not yet have the
| > | technology to instantly put a lightning bolt into a can.
| > |
| > | Tom Davidson
| > | Richmond, VA
| >
| > You lose. We've had lightning rods and Faraday cages for years.
| > Storing it in the can is the hard part, putting it there is easy.
|
| I never considered that getting the lightning bolt *to* the can would
| be a problem.
| It's all "location, location, location":
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lightning_striking_the_Eiffel_Tower_-_NOAA.jpg
That's a pretty good Faraday cage, I see the lights are still on.
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| Franklin (the guy who invented the lightning rod) was able to put _a
| little_ electricity from a lightning bolt into a can. If he had caught
| a full lightning bolt, he probably would not be on our money. He
| certainly could not have *canned* the whole lightning bolt.
| We *still* cannot put that much power into a storage unit that fast.
It's all "amount, amount, amount". We have the technology to charge
a capacitor. Whilst I agree that it would be pointless, dangerous and
prohibitively expensive to capture Super Dooper Ultra High Voltage
for very little current, we regularly use much lower voltages at higher
current.
Power is measured in watt hours, submarine batteries of voltaic cells
would hold the same POWER as a lightning bolt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(physics)
There is a difference between "having" the technology and constructing the
equipment.
We *still* cannot put that much power into a storage unit that fast, but we
*could* if we wanted to.
Androcles.
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