Re: Feeding Lightning Bolts back into the grid


<rick_sobie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"one trillion watts, briefly burning up more electrical power than is
being used in the entire United States. Monsters of one billion volts
and over 100,000 amperes are not unknown."

At current rates, each bolt fed back into the grid would net you about
300,000 dollars, so it is probably a good investment in some places to
build some type of lightning bolt receptor.

Hypothetically all you would need is a lightning rod and then a grid
of some type of condensers that could store up that energy that is
released in a flash.
Then just release it gradually back into the grid.

Any thoughts on how you could harness that electricity released in a
lightning bolt?


You would need some kind of storage capacitor. Not easy to see how to make
that capacitor though.


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