Why don't we harvest lightning for energy? ⚡️

[@freethink]

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[@XXPYR0XX]

It's can't not cont

[@CJ3000]

The majority of energy in a lightning bolt is lost as heat, not light. It takes very small amounts of energy to produce light.

[@sal_strazzullo]

The Egyptians did it with pyramids

[@MeatMachine69]

I predict lightning will strike the Empire State building about 25 times in 2024.

[@vaibhav5568]

Bro you didnt see the *experiment where scientist caught lighting using rod* but there were problem with converting the energy ... something check it out i will leave a link down if i find ut

[@Bohemiahotrodandcustom]

Build a clock tower, lightning will then strike the tower sending the Delorean Back to the future.

[@Fade_NB]

Genius

[@personexistingnot]

How come no one has thought of this before..

[@Someone_1994]

and sending the Delorean back to 1985

[@jskskl]

​@@UltraMagaFan💀💀💀

[@petipeti1235]

​@@UltraMagaFanand why do you feel the need to insult them?

[@sowpmactavish]

If even 99% of it is lost, but that 1% is beyond our capacity to withstand and store, then it's probably still a significant amount

[@NoName-cx3gk]

No the enrgy is like 1 galons of gasoline, its just very fast so the power is high

[@NoName-cx3gk]

Did you know? Lightning is powerful but not practical for energy. Each flash has about 4 strokes, each at 10^12 watts for 30 microseconds. Quick math: Energy per Stroke = 10^12 watts * 30 * 10^-6 seconds = 30 million joules. Total for a flash? 120 million joules, equivalent to about 3.81 liters or 1.01 gallons of gasoline. But capturing lightning energy? Super tricky and not efficient with today's tech. It's more a natural spectacle than a power source!

[@jeronecutikazem7401]

@@NoName-cx3gk I agree on the math and final though of rightest answer, that'd be very tricky, at least we got so far to have technology just to bridge that energy and "neutralize" it not to become a threat!

[@NoName-cx3gk]

@@jeronecutikazem7401 Yes it could easily kill someone even the energy is not that high.

[@justbplz]

Not if we build a lightning rod high enough 😂 then we won't lose much power Stick it right up in the clouds 😉 They can also use lasers to change the lightning's path if needed

[@sledges-_-]

Reason 2: Too powerful to store Reason 3: Not powerdul enough

[@DoodleBobSaysNo]

Right 😂

[@ThinkAboutMyComment]

Not too powerful to store. Many systems already store more energy. It is powerful enough. Plus those 2 reasons contradict Just not enough lightning storms to make it worth the cost of building a system

[@DoodleBobSaysNo]

@@ThinkAboutMyComment watch the video again and you’ll see what he’s talking about

[@opticalreticle]

it's a short burst of energy that even harvesting at high efficiency wouldn't be worth the investment

[@Tyler-hs9eu]

​@@opticalreticle what if hypothetically we had the technology to create/control thunderstorms and then build a facility that could harness the power properly? Maybe in a century or so

[@anxiouscucumber9]

Only useful for reanimating stitched-together corpses, then..

[@massacrestarts1673]

And DeLorean time machines!

[@Eskatunna]

Putting cold bodies at the center of Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela And firing it with their Catatumbo Lightning.

[@yasirrakhurrafat1142]

braa nuhh ☠️

[@rinkutsuki3382]

I mean, the human brain does work on less electricity than it takes to run a lightbulb.

[@Dark_3333]

Yes, or sending cars back in time

[@WilburJaywright]

“No one knows when or where lightning will strike.” Actually, Doc, we do.

[@ShatteredGlass916]

Goes to your mom's prom and make sure she hit it with dad

[@Genos44]

Omg, I love that movie

[@famlrnamemssng]

I thought of that immediately when the video started

[@AshishSharma-yk7qr]

​@@ShatteredGlass916 gotta kiss the mom before that though

[@pvzgamerlegisniana6492]

Right now?

[@crono6664]

“We can’t really predict where a lightning bolt is going to strike,” The lightning rod on top of a building wants to talk to you.

[@bartholomewceremony6981]

Actually Nickola Tesla did. So did the builders of the ancient pyramids

[@savagesarethebest7251]

Also apparently you can also use a special laser that directs the lightning bolt into the lightning rod

[@Ma1n033]

Don’t go for this distraction. The ETHER is there and here all around us.

[@alunghelna3753]

😂😂😂

[@jpraise6771]

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[@ShadowDancer1000]

Lightning farms would go insane fr “Sorry babe, I can’t go out tonight. Gotta plow the thunderclouds. Batteries ain’t gonna feed themselves you know”

[@BenCos2018]

Haha

[@CheeseMiser]

Racism Is bad

[@ShadowDancer1000]

@@CheeseMiser 🤓

[@Jokercullenn]

@@CheeseMiserhe was making a joke…

[@ShadowDancer1000]

@@CheeseMiser 🤓

[@sneedfeed3179]

“You can’t predict where a lighting will hit” *Proceeds to show numerous examples of lightning hitting the tallest building in the area*

[@midotayeng6205]

Lightning is phenomenon, you cannot predict the weather or certain area. Some area have thunderstorm but some don't have such thunderstorm, weather change in region. This is why they are unpredictable, Govt have to invest in almost all region to take energy. Moreover energy is convert into heat. So we cannot use such energy not yet

[@beans1215]

No, no you can’t. “ERM, PROCEEDS TO BLA BLA BLA IM A RETARD”

[@sneedfeed3179]

lightning is a rare phenomenon? hahahaha@@midotayeng6205

[@joboorrrr]

​@@midotayeng6205have you never seen a news channel my guy they literally tell you what the weather will be

[@coolkid006]

​@@midotayeng6205lightning rods left the chat

[@michaelcarlton1484]

There are areas on Earth that have lightning storms every day. You can use lightning rods to draw them to one specific point and then use the heat itself to generate power, not the electricity.

[@sachinminz90]

I thought of something similar. With recent developments on sand batteries which simply store energy in form of heat. One can potentially store heat from lightning and gradually use it with the pre-existing steam turbines.

[@zeph0shade]

Unfortunately when he said there's not much total energy left, that includes heat. No matter which kind of energy you harvest from a lightning strike, you aren't preventing 99.99% of it from being lost along the entire length of the bolt other than the tiny point where it struck.

[@sachinminz90]

@@zeph0shade would be cool though. We already have lightning arrestor in most buildings. Instead of "simply" grounding it "could we possibly" store heat in inexpensive sand batteries. And gradually use it up? It's not a major source of electricity. But with inexpensive batteries we might just as well utilize it? Currently the power industry has to produce on-demand. Because we don't have large scale batteries. So the work on sand batteries are definitely interesting.

[@zeph0shade]

@@sachinminz90 I imagine it would be possible, just not worth the cost of installing and maintaining. Even if it can successfully store a charge every time lightning interacts with it, anything that's intended to be struck by lightning is going to wear out and need repairing/replacing after just a few uses. I don't think the energy you'd capture would be near enough to make up for those costs.

[@YRO.]

​@@zeph0shadeWhat if it's right up in the clouds?

[@I_Like_Turtles441]

“No one knows where the lightning would strike.” Isn’t the Statue of Liberty just a massive copper rod?

[@Ace____2_2]

😮😮😮😮😮😂😂😂😂😂😂 I mean u r correct 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@n00bxl71]

Yeah, but it just carries the electricity to the ground. It doesn't use the power. If it sent it to a battery, then it would stop working as a lightning rod. It needs a direct path, not a battery which takes time to charge.

[@eudacye709]

Half French, half American, and 100% conductive.

[@Axiust]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@nervonabliss]

​@@n00bxl71 Battery can be ground level ot underground

[@rave400v6]

When you do the most bare minimum in researching online.

[@ChaineYTXF]

Yup

[@derpyVfoxoX6]

Ong he contradicted himself

[@johnhonker437]

Yeah... But he's wearing glasses, so he's super smart.

[@Nick-mz4jh]

I'm uneducated, why is he wrong?

[@mdsiddique7396]

Why is he wrong tho

[@chupko1106]

I swear every time someone says "might suprise you" or "not what you think" its the most common sense thing I have ever heard.

[@BanditFoxx]

Electrical engineer here: This guy is so wrong on so many levels, that it's hard to even know where to start addressing the misinformation in this video. My only advice would be, if you're genuinely interested in this topic, go and research it for yourself rather than trust this creator.

[@NoName-cx3gk]

The video is right about lightning not being a great energy source, but it misses explaining the power vs. energy concept. Lightning strikes are powerful but last only about 30 microseconds, so the total energy is low. This detail is key, as it shows why harnessing lightning for energy isn't as feasible as it might seem.

[@nuncapasaran9374]

I mean yeah KZbin isn’t the place to go for your works cited page definitely… first off does lightning even “hit the ground”? I was under the impression the actual light and heat start from the ground but it’s so fast you can’t see it. Maybe I’m wrong though.

[@bingbong8464]

​@@nuncapasaran9374it starts from the cloud but it only sometimes touches the ground

[@1990tattoo]

​@nuncapasaran9374 there's lightning from clouds (usually arcing in between the clouds) and there's ground lightning (starting from the ground connecting to the clouds due to the assembly of positive and negative ions in the air,) both of which are relatively common. Then you have heat lightning which is commonly formed via warm and cold air currents colliding (or if there's enough heat with static charge/ions in the air. This would be more common in the desert.) Another form of "heat" lightning is Volcanic lightning. This happens (obviously) during a severe volcanic eruption when the volcano is spewing forth carbon, soot, and ash along with molten rock. This is a particularly violent event even amongst eruptions, and thick, bright bolts of lightning (even of varying colors) within the clouds of soot, ash, and carbon. The lightning is caused by a mixture of heat from the volcano, and the elements in the toxic clouds creating so much friction to where it supercharges/superheats the ions in that cloud, creating some of the most impressive lightning bolts you can see in a limited area

[@deang5622]

​@@bingbong8464No, he is actually right. There are feelers which come up from multiple places on the ground, and a feeler progresses from the cloud downwards and meets an upcoming feeler, then the bolt of lightning travels down from the upper feeler to the lower feeler with which it has made contact. It happens very quickly and too fast for the human eye to see it. But it is detectable with high speed cameras.

[@idontknowaname1587]

Him: "A thunderstorm is thought to contain enough power of an atomic bomb" Me watching a guy survive 3 lightning bolts:

[@ceciljoel9577]

This guy really thinks lighting contains that much power to equal a nuclear bomb😂😂😂

[@idontknowaname1587]

@@ceciljoel9577 it's hilarious on how you are reacting to my comment

[@ceciljoel9577]

@@idontknowaname1587 i was talking about the video creator not you

[@idontknowaname1587]

@@ceciljoel9577 good to know

[@glad_is_life]

Don't worry guys, I got this *pulls out Minecraft lightning Rod *

[@fukamikara]

FR LOL

[@Axiust]

Legends say the statue of liberty is a witch farm😂😂😂

[@mohawk1010]

Pulls out stardew valley lighting rod that actully makes batteries when struck by lightning

[@DeWhytePoverty]

TESLA HOLD MY COILS

[@Danilio.]

That's what I was thinking lol

[@aniketsrivastava1870]

No fuckin Tesla would be able to absorb that much current we are talking exponentially high amounts even if Nicola Tesla comes out of his graves to do so😂😂😂

[@aldahirrodriguezsotelo3244]

​​@@aniketsrivastava1870We'll build a tall one that does!

[@jayzm7749]

Fr

[@DeWhytePoverty]

@@aniketsrivastava1870 You have No Clue Cern Hold my partical colliders.

[@insectslayer1374]

NikolaTesla:"I missed the part where that's my problem"

[@ItsVsenpai]

Look at Little free think junior, gonna cry😂

[@cody-e]

Him: we don’t have something that could survive a lightning bolt Benjamin Franklin:

[@MrClefMusic]

Real

[@xenophobicsokkorean6055]

He means we can’t store massive amounts of electricity so quickly, capacitors would fry under the charge flowing so quickly. Material science isn’t the problem, it’s the energy density of the battery and the transfer medium that is able to deal with the rapid release disharche

[@teufelhund3801]

​@@xenophobicsokkorean6055Silver wire(like a foot thick branching off into smaller wires) would probably work, just would have to have a good insulator around it so it wouldn't arc. The minimal resistance would stop a lot of the energy transformation from electrical to heat.

[@Akniy]

​@@teufelhund3801If that worked then they would have been doing it

[@IAmSkystrike]

I dunno man, he’s not alive anymore. Doesn’t seem like a worthy investment.

[@rodney1818]

Lightning hit the chimney of the house one time turned on the metal detector upstairs in the closet it hadn't been used in and quite some time and the batteries were surely dead the batteries worked for about three to six months they were rechargeable

[@kurostyx9124]

holy

[@JLL_29]

Try using these: coma(,) and dot(.)

[@times5ive]

@@kurostyx9124nice profile pic

[@segsfault]

fake story, science isn't sciencing here.

[@Airdel]

Cursed charger

[@MrEditor6000]

There are plenty of areas that are much more prone to serious thunder storms than others.. And we do have lightning rods, and we almost certainly have a field of transformers and capacitors that could at least process some of the energy from a lightening strike and then send the rest of what we cannot handle through grounding rods. Just a thought.

[@Gravedigger933]

Fun fact: The sound of thunder is caused by the heat of lighting bots exploding the air around them.

[@antoineboucher5391]

Thats very interesting!

[@sidharthpj2289]

My teacher in school said that scientists once tried it and all the batteries just exploded.

[@chimika5025]

"there really isn't much of the total energy left when it hits the ground" tree : 🔥

[@Slomsy]

So basically, you don’t want to turn lightning into energy but direct the build up of potential elecrticity.

[@arketsjenkins5016]

Ye ppl think that thunder=electricity but what is does is just releasing the built up potential...

[@maxkhunglo6211]

In my childhood my mom asked me that question and asked me to come up with a solution.

[@Skrajne_centrum]

In other words you are a failure to her

[@maxkhunglo6211]

@@Skrajne_centrum well, it is what it is.

[@mohammadalmasalmeh6]

​@arkadiuszbialas1602 nah bro you talking it far I mean you not wrong but what if he still a kid lol😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@TravTrevTV]

average asian mom

[@fungmonger3000]

Lmao

[@SolarScootersuk]

Predicting lightning strikes: Own a DeLorean

[@joshuaweezorak7042]

We absolutely have ways to obtain it and store it. Plus lightning is pretty predictable considering well, it usually hits the highest object. We've literally created things called lightning rods to avoid it hitting other things

[@1ZombieMan1]

Source I made it up

[@RONK-ve9yq]

​@@1ZombieMan1Nope,lightning rods very much do exist.Do ya research first.

[@Haispawner]

Yes and you get barely any actual energy out of it. Show me a lightning rod that can actual store the energy and move it to a power grid.

[@RONK-ve9yq]

@@Haispawner That wasn't the topic,yes they store extremely low amounts of energy.

[@kaosunokami]

bro did not play Minecraft couldn't figure out rods attract lightning 😩

[@PoochyMishaps]

"It's too much power for our technology to handle" "It's not enough power because it's hot and bright"

[@Haispawner]

When did he even say that first one?

[@PoochyMishaps]

​@@Haispawner "We don't yet have technology that could survive such a massive surge of power" is their direct quote, it's near the beginning of the video

[@LightMan1010]

​@@Haispawnerahh... Sorry, you can't be e researcher! 😂

[@tydy5266]

These things are not mutually exclusive. It's weak in relation to how much energy is generated by a storm, but too powerful for current technology to store all at once. There's a reason things that time to charge

[@PoochyMishaps]

@@tydy5266 you're not wrong, but that's not funny. I wanted a slight chuckle.

[@MiggyBasteMas]

And this is also why most houses have a Metal silver roof

[@RippyLol]

"And we don't have technology that could survive such a quick massive bolt" The lightning pole: Am I a joke to you?

[@OtherPeople159]

bruh, lightning pole directs the lightning by dissipating it to the ground.. it is not a device to "store energy"..and thats what he meant, theres no technology yet, that can store a sudden huge surge of power and survive it..

[@johnf4388]

He means electrical circuits, like a battery or a capacitor

[@Fiatluc]

@@johnf4388nobody tried building one.

[@johnf4388]

@@Fiatluc they dont need to try to build one. If the estimated power of lightning bolt is beyond what we know our technology can withstand, there's no point in trying to build one. Plus im sure they tried in the pas and everything was blowing up. It's a good idea for the future though, tons of energy to harvest.

[@Oblivion4eg]

​@@johnf4388it just has to be big enough to disperse it appropriately. Or you can just heat water with it, aa we always do. The only problem is that it is not reliable

[@user-kg5xn2lf2c]

There has been an experiment in Europe. They successfully directed it with a laser.

[@AstroPlayser]

Yes-but it used more power than it produced back.

[@mmh7534]

​@@AstroPlayser but it worked though

[@AstroPlayser]

@@mmh7534 okay? it wont ever be used again if it’s input/output ratio is below 1.

[@Kaleki935]

​@@AstroPlayserantibiotics were found through leaving bread out too long. Almost all discoveries are unintentional, or take years of improvements on the rudimentary. This is an example of advancing a lightningrod and focusing the bolt, that's not meaningless. But alas, the atheistic majority who deify "The Science" know absolutely nothing about its processes, and will never contribute to such.

[@vitalproto]

​@@AstroPlaysersame have been said about steam engine, combustion engine and electric motor.... Progress starts with crazy and weird ideas that lead to amazing experiments. Go read a book or be open minded

[@VerziiUHC]

*I remember when I played Minecraft, I used the Lightning Rod to not burn my house down. 💀*

[@amogussus8979]

Alright redstoners, its your time to shine

[@cezarcatalin1406]

We need a tall structured isolated from ground and a connection to the ground via a capacitor bank. When lightning strikes the capacitor gets charged.

[@jns0132]

​@cezarcatalin1406 or we just build it high enough so that the clouds won't overcharge in a jumping arc, maybe it's possible to get an continuous flow of electricity using the alternator in the sky 🥸🤔

[@yupitzmeeee]

"The reason that we won't, might surprise u" Bro those were the exact reasons I thought 😂

[@BackYardScience2000]

This is also why you can potentially survive a lightning strike. Could you imagine getting the full force of a strike? There'd be nothing left.

[@johnhonker437]

"I'm wearing glasses, so I MUST know what I'm talking about."

[@scazab6408]

?????

[@PopPlayz08]

Everything he said makes sense??????

[@its.sensei]

​@@PopPlayz08 dude really? 🙄

[@PopPlayz08]

@@its.sensei upon rewatching the video a couple times, and reading other peoples comments, not really.

[@jayarajs3696]

😄😄

[@flower6916]

I remember reading about this, there is a potential difference as you climb in altitude, it’s always there, Tesla was attempting to harness it for free energy but the project was shut down mid way for some reason.

[@martinmarkov9707]

Free means it doesn't generate profit.

[@Owen-sx4jj]

Yh. It's Atmos electricity which is what gravity actually is as well not some bendy early space time reification fallacy.

[@adude7944]

Sooo you gotta build a really high metal tower and power starts flowing

[@emarythomp]

@@Owen-sx4jjwhat

[@PoliticalFelon]

Money

[@ZAdonX]

blud forgot about copper's existence💀💀💀

[@Vindiorix]

Also lighting doesnt "hit the ground" it comes up from the ground and down from the sky at the same time to meet somewhere in the middle, it's an equalization of different charges in the sky and earth.

[@dreadlocsamurai4241]

That’s crazy

[@Jimothy-723]

@@dreadlocsamurai4241its actualy a circut. so every time one strike ocures theres actualy two lightening bolts that cause the air to become ionized which is the plazma you can see. this is usualy enough to cause a small explosion.

[@LouisKing995]

Incorrect, the majority of lightning strikes are (CG) cloud to ground, strikes. Only a small number are GC.

[@antivlad7287]

Lol, there are different types of lightning

[@MrCoffis]

The energy flows from the sky to the ground though.

[@06racing]

It's almost like a lightning strike is meant to dissipate energy

[@alfr3649]

Fact that can save your life: If you suddenly see your hair going upward and you feel static running down your body, run and take shelter, you are about to get struck by lightning. 🌩️⚡

[@FM-Fusion001]

Gonna need world leaders to discuss with Zeus in harvesting lighting

[@joshuagenes]

We do have the tech it is call Capacitors. The lightning bolt would charge the capacitors and the excess would go to ground. Then we simply release the capacitors i such fashion to create AC.

[@ancientlink0]

Its because Lightning has amost no energy. Only about 8kwh not enough to power 1 home

[@joyvillanueva1463]

Copper rods that are 1meter higher than a skyscraper the roots are spread out into multiple batteries, factories, etc. ---Theodore

[@lancethrustworthy]

I'm pretty sure we know places where lightning strikes regularly. One of the problems we face is how to store, in an instant, that massive electric potential.

[@deanonesense]

There are at least three basic types of lightening strike. Cloud to cloud, cloud to ground and ground to cloud. Cloud to cloud would be very difficult to harness and would definitely be a bad starting point unless you were trying to power a Venetian cloud city. For cloud to ground, I don't think you'd want a lightening rod on the surface or on top of a building. You'd want an airship with a metal skin tethered with a thick copper wire with thick electrical insulation. This doesn't just drastically reduce power loss to the atmosphere, it drastically lowers how high the voltage gets before amps flow. You might still get some power spikes that are too fast to economically be handled by double layer capacitors or flywheels and hence still requiring humongous capacitors, but if you aren't able to get a stable flow of power it should at least be far more stable than flow than you'd get from ground based lightening rods, it would also give lightening protection to a much larger area. Other than requiring a gigantic bridge rectifier, the same setup should be able to handle both cloud to ground and ground to cloud. Also, using lasers to produce a plasma channel to direct lightening to a particular point might be an alternative to using air ships, though I suspect though the airship would have a much higher embedded energy of manufacturing than the laser, the laser is going to have a much much higher operating cost.

[@cezarcatalin1406]

@@deanonesense You don’t want a laser, you want a pulsed high energy electron narrow beam to ionise the air... you know, the stuff that makes air or water glow blue.

[@NoName-cx3gk]

Did you know? Lightning is powerful but not practical for energy. Each flash has about 4 strokes, each at 10^12 watts for 30 microseconds. Quick math: Energy per Stroke = 10^12 watts * 30 * 10^-6 seconds = 30 million joules. Total for a flash? 120 million joules, equivalent to about 3.81 liters or 1.01 gallons of gasoline. But capturing lightning energy? Super tricky and not efficient with today's tech. It's more a natural spectacle than a power source!

[@buttrnaan]

if we found a way to harvest it, most of the energy will not dissipate as heat and light before it reaches the ground. It’s only being lost as heat and energy because it has nowhere to go. If it could go be stored it wouldn’t be dissipated.

[@MichaelOwusu-ch4tk]

But the issue is the speed at which it does so. We don't have any machine to harness that at that speed

[@hydrolink5297]

It may be very powerful, but the actual strike lasts for such a small duration, there isn't really any reason to bother harvesting it. The actual lightning consists of a lot of bursts, which all together last for about half a second. The short duration of a discharge is the reason you don't die from a static discharge, because the actual amount of energy present is low.

[@HaydenLau.]

Neon: hold my Drink Pack: Beer

[@TheFool_0]

Lightning strikes the same spot fairly often usually.

[@mranonymous4629]

theres a video of a man getting hit 3 times by lightning on KZbin just look it up if you don't believe me

[@KongZilla827]

But. I read somewhere that we are building up techs to somehow command and direct lightning I know not how accurate this might be

[@ainamal]

Actually we do! At the largest plant in Westlake Louisiana we have "lightning poles" that absorb the lightning. Lightning wants to attract to negatively charged things, so by putting negatively charged rods on the tops of plants, it saves the surroundings only hitting the rods!

[@BKhaos_]

Literally having a thunderstorm rn.💀

[@MohammadNaseerHashimi]

Yes, you can't predict but; you can guide it anywhere you want it. Cause lightning 🌩️ follow the less resistance path for its charge. Correct me, if I am wrong guys.

[@Jefftheturtle119]

“So you’re saying that back to the future is a bunch of bullshit!?”

[@gigaus0]

This is true, but consider what was said earlier: We still can't contain it. So even though the majority of it is lost to heat, even 1% of a plasma strike is enough energy to fry a power grid [yes one was built to try and catch lightning.]

[@Blitzkit]

The big problem will always be "is it efficient" A battery capable of storing instant electricity which can always equal to a very scary power surge. The capability of a machine to stop and store such energy and not waste any energy further In the end if all this checks Will the energy stored inside be significant enough over the cost that you used to make one such machine?

[@deepmalyadas6585]

About the last pointer, getting used up as heat and light energy, that happens by the time it reaches the surface, right ? So hypothetically, if (that's a big if as it is) there was some way to channel that much power from tower through a series of transformers and rectifiers and such, i feel like the main issue would be storing it, i believe. Im not that well versed but if there was some kind of monster semiconductor or something, maybe that could've been possible (?) 🤔🤔 What do you think ?

[@mauzeking6661]

we acctually may have a way to channel the lightning to a target, ionizing lazors seem to be able to focus lightning by making a more ideal path you have to point it near a lightning rod to other wise the lighting would hit the emmiter and destroy it.

[@Bremend]

​@mauzeking6661 I feel that by using the laser providing a path to the ground, we could then draw part of the current off into a supercapacitor, like the ones currently being created for nuclear fusion testing in order to momentary capture the voltage before discharging more slowly into a more standard battery for later usage and proper syncing to the grid frequency and voltage.

[@G0RSHK0V]

​@@mauzeking6661laser will use more power than you can harvest

[@G0RSHK0V]

Ever heard about inductivity? That's what transformers are made out of. And inductivity resists the change of the current. In case with lightning it can become so resistive that the lighting will find another path

[@mauzeking6661]

@@G0RSHK0V than lighting? Not likely the lasers don't even have to be that powerful as all they have to do is generate an easier path. They are not creating lighting.

[@Proudmadarastan]

We’ve all played Minecraft, why don’t we force the lightning to spawn where we want it to.

[@kristinagraversgaard5328]

We need: A piston A lightning rod A channeling trident A command block And lastly, Redstone stuff.

[@BurakkuHishou]

I mean, we can force the lightning towards certain spots with lightning rods. Saturate an area with enough of them as well as a transportation method for said electricity and it can have plenty of power. Currently the biggest issue is just storage. We can't physically store electricity, we just store it as a different energy source or reaction until we can convert it back to electricity. For example: batteries do not store electricity, they just store chemicals that cause a reaction upon being hit with electricity, and then reform that chemical reaction to then generate electricity (it's a really dumbed down explanation but for simplicities sake). We cannot take a bolt of electricity and just keep it arcing in a space until were ready to use it. To fix this we need to create better storage systems: 1. Find better or more efficient ways to store chemical reactions. 2. Find new ways to convert electricity into a storable method. 3. Finally figure out how to actually store electricity.

[@ST0IC]

Thor: "You can't see me, my time is now!" 🤣

[@pancakemixwithblueberriesinit]

I feel like a video with a scene full of extremely fast lightning flashes should have an epilepsy warning beforehand.

[@D3PU7Y]

Hey fun fact. Lightning doesn't hit the ground. It leaves the ground and shoots into the sky. This is why lightning is more active around quartz.

[@Ag3ntP_]

‘Have you ever wondered why we don’t harvest lightning?’ *no, I can’t say that I have.*

[@Qualicabyss]

I dont believe you

[@Ag3ntP_]

@@Qualicabyss ya caught me 😞

[@rynocerusrex5050]

As someone who once got impaled on an electric fence, it’s a much more fun burn than fire. The thing that’ll kill you isn’t the voltage but the current

[@christophertaylor9100]

There have been attempts but the main problem is the rarity of lightning strikes. Even in a place with thunderstorms on a regular basis, its less common than once a day. A company called AEHI built a working generator, but it wasn't very viable because of this.

[@audiesshvfx]

HEAT ENERGY AND LIGHT ENERGY!!! YOU JUST ANSWERED MY HOMEOWRK QUESTION TYYYYYYYYYYY

[@shadow13392]

A tower at a decent height with laser to guild the lightning to silver/copper rods to directly heat water in a chamber that will slowly charge some large ass battrys with a turbine (steam)

[@odington]

Before the lightning hits, it's stored as static in the cloud. We could find a way to drain it gradually

[@jaysonlincoln]

So we just gotta store it before it hits the ground

[@reubenjaime5631]

That’s what Tesla was all about chap

[@demilung]

It's a simple conversation, really - Hey why don't we harvest lightning? - How? - Well, I dunno... - Neither do I.

[@Flakz911]

I know, but im not telling 🫢

[@Palidor19]

When they do create that technology, they definitely call it “Mjolnir”

[@debashishsmith]

Thor entered the chat ⚡⚡

[@ZXTYYY_darksouls_guy]

*Copper rod and other conductors have left the chat* Edit, okay ma! I got the most likes yet! Will I be famous?

[@joshmakarenko5809]

How fast does your phone charge? Now imagine trying to "charge" enough energy to power 100 _houses_ for a day into batteries in a fraction of a second. That's the issue with harnessing lightning

[@kingiument4627]

@@joshmakarenko5809Slow asf because its made by apple

[@ToastedNuggie]

bro skipped education to play minecraft

[@sonicsupersam7793]

no way minecraft that’s crazy

[@liamdj6535]

@@joshmakarenko5809capacitors

[@squishvr174]

"We dont have technology that can survive this surge of energy" CERN: allow us to introduce ourselves.

[@FishingWithSails]

"You can't predict where a lightning bolt is going to strike" Just put a lightning rod anywhere in Florida.

[@jonathanfalvo2414]

We have self driving taxis but we can’t design a capacitor to store the energy from a lightning bolt? Something ain’t right.

[@jacob5058]

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[@Gadavillers-Panoir]

I think this is like trying to charge an absolutely gigantic battery from 0% to 100% in less than a second.

[@arakkh.9280]

We probably could. But that technology would only be useful for a very narrow niche- mainly 'storing lightning'. And overall, storing lightning energy is less efficient and reliable than solar panels.. Which don't require a whole separate tech tree to store their energy output, once produced.

[@genericwhitemale9566]

We could but it'd be incredibly inefficient and not worth mass production. Basically 99% of cool futuristic ideas like flying cars or harvesting the power of thunderstorms fall under this category because the systems we have in place are hundreds of times more cost effective.

[@lumin6464]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@arakkh.9280it’d be the same tech used to store energy from fusion generators, still niche but more consistently useful

[@IAMAKNUCKLESFAN]

This question never struck me until now. Fascinating. I'm sure there's a way. We learned how to turn rocks into wifi. I'm sure we can put enough focus into creating accumulators that could store limited amounts of energy. When we do, it'll be a new phase in how we look at our energy sources

[@zaythegoat-vo6qz]

No its cause Zeus will be mad

[@christiansnow160]

Fun Fact: A Single Lighting Bolt Is Twice As Hot As The Surface Of The Sun

[@antoineboucher5391]

Where do you define surface though, as it is a ball of burning gaz, the surface changes right? And thus would change themperature if you go even slightly further or closer

[@EatOnionz]

I find that hard to believe since people have survived lightning strikes before and aren't completely burnt when killed. If I had the same heat of the surface of the Sun somebody that got hit by lightning would completely eat evaporate into dust instantly.

[@AAAAHHHHHHHHHH]

@@EatOnionzthe surface of the sun is surprisingly not that hot… well not that hot compared to the core

[@Ezbanta]

They used to U can create a cooling nimbus cloud Use lime stone is a dielectric it can store field and feed quartz in granite Also basalt cam store the heat for ages

[@RightBoyKA-POW]

To summarize: We don’t, because we can't. We don't have the technology or equipment for it.

[@j.christie2594]

But, we do. But don't tell Edison Electric, the Trick of Science isn't Jibberish to some. 4 diodes and 4 capacitors in retifier ending in Caps does this in calm weather, will fry if lightning strikes. ÷lectricity from Air circuit is on GOOGLE. It does work, and in Series or Parallel, same as battery hook up, series + Volt and parallel + Amp. $2.oo per unit. See YT for proof.

[@vmdenis3350]

We do, nikola tesla did it

[@NoName-cx3gk]

Did you know? Lightning is powerful but not practical for energy. Each flash has about 4 strokes, each at 10^12 watts for 30 microseconds. Quick math: Energy per Stroke = 10^12 watts * 30 * 10^-6 seconds = 30 million joules. Total for a flash? 120 million joules, equivalent to about 3.81 liters or 1.01 gallons of gasoline. But capturing lightning energy? Super tricky and not efficient with today's tech. It's more a natural spectacle than a power source!

[@j.christie2594]

@@NoName-cx3gk yet, one can buy $3 of Diodes and capacitors and safely collect 24/7 a current of 1.4V, from Antenna + Grounding, that only dips as sun sets by .3v. Safe and cheap. Add a Tesla Coil at Antenna side and increase current, or arrange in multiple units and aplly Paralle = Amps and Series adds Volt's. Electricity from Sky on YT.

[@as9499]

The energy in the lighting peaks exactly at the point when two clouds collide, we just need to target there

[@norwegiansmores811]

no i have not wondered. the reason is 1) its too rare to set up a reliable harvester. 2) you would need a stupid amount of super capacitors on a even stupider manifold like system to even capture the energy 3) there is not enough power in a single lightning strike to power a single house for longer than a few hours.

[@solarwolf1336]

Makes sense considering direct lightning strikes typically aren’t lethal, if it was really atomic bomb energy at the tip of that bolt you would be, well… atomized

[@drippylightbulb4634]

I saw lightning start to break apart but I guess it wasn’t a myth.

[@KingJuju0907]

You could build/create a huge coil or enormous storage cells deep underground with a few big rods extending out of the ground high in the air that when lightning strikes them, could immediately contain the energy from lightning ⚡. I know if this was doable, it'd be quite a bit different and more complicated, but not a bad idea /thought 💭🤔

[@joshmill9221]

Lighting doesn’t “hit” the ground it’s arcing instantly from the ground to the storm and they meet in the middle where the loud sound is also formed

[@xXRiZzO]

I was losing my mind until the second half of the short lol.

[@thinkhine8866]

lightning conductor A lightning conductor is a device used to protect buildings from the effect of lightning. A metal rod taller than the building is installed in the walls of the building during its construction. One end of the rod is kept out in the air and the other is buried deep in the ground.

[@radioactive4388]

Funny that , it still takes out humans with all that lost energy

[@F-zi2ui]

U all are so lovely❤ always thinking about energy. But, waste it in envy, hatred and lies. Imagine the beauty of a lightning ending useful for someone like that. You are so creative. Remember, you are in a place where those forces presence preceeds the possibility of you. Slaves feeling bad guys. 🤏how small u feel can be changed..but how small u r not.

[@GuidedBreathing]

That’s why someone discovered that a ballon with a copper wire attached actually gives the opportunity to harvest this energy in a steady stream without lightning (more than occasionally perhaps😅)

[@williamargott398]

Makes sense, helps explain why people aren’t instantly vaporized when struck by lightning

[@steeledgator]

Of course you can predict where it will strike. Lightning has rules for conductivity as well as it strikes the tallest objects first

[@SolarRage]

Did you know lightning is a gamma ray 👇

[@kinglil546]

but we did harvest energy from the wind, using giant turbines. i understand turbines need to be paid for and maintenance is needed occasionally, but that can happen with tax payer money very easily. why is it that we need to pay for electricity when it’s literally generated for FREE.

[@airraverstaz]

The rate that technology is advancing these days is astounding though, I wouldn't be entirely surprised if we managed to do something with it in my lifetime. To all the scientists out there, making breakthroughs and advancing humanity as a whole....thank you.

[@Technooooooblade]

“We can’t predict where lightning will strike” Minecraft players: says who?

[@nightmareSubject999]

I call lightning the wraith of the gods because Zeus uses lightning for a weapon