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@XXPYR0XX10 ай бұрын
It's can't not cont
@CJ300010 ай бұрын
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_strazzullo10 ай бұрын
The Egyptians did it with pyramids
@MeatMachine6910 ай бұрын
I predict lightning will strike the Empire State building about 25 times in 2024.
@vaibhav556810 ай бұрын
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
@Bohemiahotrodandcustom10 ай бұрын
Build a clock tower, lightning will then strike the tower sending the Delorean Back to the future.
@Fade_NB10 ай бұрын
Genius
@personexistingnot10 ай бұрын
How come no one has thought of this before..
@Someone_199410 ай бұрын
and sending the Delorean back to 1985
@jskskl10 ай бұрын
@@UltraMagaFan💀💀💀
@petipeti123510 ай бұрын
@@UltraMagaFanand why do you feel the need to insult them?
@sowpmactavish9 ай бұрын
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-cx3gk8 ай бұрын
No the enrgy is like 1 galons of gasoline, its just very fast so the power is high
@NoName-cx3gk8 ай бұрын
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!
@jeronecutikazem74018 ай бұрын
@@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-cx3gk8 ай бұрын
@@jeronecutikazem7401 Yes it could easily kill someone even the energy is not that high.
@justbplz8 ай бұрын
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-_-7 ай бұрын
Reason 2: Too powerful to store Reason 3: Not powerdul enough
@DoodleBobSaysNo4 ай бұрын
Right 😂
@ThinkAboutMyComment4 ай бұрын
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
@DoodleBobSaysNo4 ай бұрын
@@ThinkAboutMyComment watch the video again and you’ll see what he’s talking about
@opticalreticle4 ай бұрын
it's a short burst of energy that even harvesting at high efficiency wouldn't be worth the investment
@Tyler-hs9eu4 ай бұрын
@@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
@anxiouscucumber911 ай бұрын
Only useful for reanimating stitched-together corpses, then..
@massacrestarts167310 ай бұрын
And DeLorean time machines!
@Eskatunna10 ай бұрын
Putting cold bodies at the center of Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela And firing it with their Catatumbo Lightning.
@yasirrakhurrafat114210 ай бұрын
braa nuhh ☠️
@rinkutsuki338210 ай бұрын
I mean, the human brain does work on less electricity than it takes to run a lightbulb.
@Dark_333310 ай бұрын
Yes, or sending cars back in time
@WilburJaywright10 ай бұрын
“No one knows when or where lightning will strike.” Actually, Doc, we do.
@ShatteredGlass91610 ай бұрын
Goes to your mom's prom and make sure she hit it with dad
@Genos4410 ай бұрын
Omg, I love that movie
@famlrnamemssng10 ай бұрын
I thought of that immediately when the video started
@AshishSharma-yk7qr10 ай бұрын
@@ShatteredGlass916 gotta kiss the mom before that though
@pvzgamerlegisniana649210 ай бұрын
Right now?
@crono66647 ай бұрын
“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.
@bartholomewceremony69815 ай бұрын
Actually Nickola Tesla did. So did the builders of the ancient pyramids
@savagesarethebest72514 ай бұрын
Also apparently you can also use a special laser that directs the lightning bolt into the lightning rod
@Ma1n0334 ай бұрын
Don’t go for this distraction. The ETHER is there and here all around us.
@alunghelna37534 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@jpraise67714 ай бұрын
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@ShadowDancer100010 ай бұрын
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”
@BenCos201810 ай бұрын
Haha
@CheeseMiser10 ай бұрын
Racism Is bad
@ShadowDancer100010 ай бұрын
@@CheeseMiser 🤓
@Jokercullenn10 ай бұрын
@@CheeseMiserhe was making a joke…
@ShadowDancer100010 ай бұрын
@@CheeseMiser 🤓
@sneedfeed317910 ай бұрын
“You can’t predict where a lighting will hit” *Proceeds to show numerous examples of lightning hitting the tallest building in the area*
@midotayeng620510 ай бұрын
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
@beans121510 ай бұрын
No, no you can’t. “ERM, PROCEEDS TO BLA BLA BLA IM A RETARD”
@sneedfeed317910 ай бұрын
lightning is a rare phenomenon? hahahaha@@midotayeng6205
@joboorrrr10 ай бұрын
@@midotayeng6205have you never seen a news channel my guy they literally tell you what the weather will be
@coolkid00610 ай бұрын
@@midotayeng6205lightning rods left the chat
@michaelcarlton14848 ай бұрын
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.
@sachinminz904 ай бұрын
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.
@zeph0shade4 ай бұрын
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.
@sachinminz904 ай бұрын
@@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.
@zeph0shade4 ай бұрын
@@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.3 ай бұрын
@@zeph0shadeWhat if it's right up in the clouds?
@I_Like_Turtles44110 ай бұрын
“No one knows where the lightning would strike.” Isn’t the Statue of Liberty just a massive copper rod?
@Ace____2_210 ай бұрын
😮😮😮😮😮😂😂😂😂😂😂 I mean u r correct 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@n00bxl7110 ай бұрын
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.
@eudacye70910 ай бұрын
Half French, half American, and 100% conductive.
@Axiust10 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂
@nervonabliss10 ай бұрын
@@n00bxl71 Battery can be ground level ot underground
@rave400v610 ай бұрын
When you do the most bare minimum in researching online.
@ChaineYTXF9 ай бұрын
Yup
@derpyVfoxoX69 ай бұрын
Ong he contradicted himself
@johnhonker4379 ай бұрын
Yeah... But he's wearing glasses, so he's super smart.
@Nick-mz4jh9 ай бұрын
I'm uneducated, why is he wrong?
@mdsiddique73969 ай бұрын
Why is he wrong tho
@chupko11066 ай бұрын
I swear every time someone says "might suprise you" or "not what you think" its the most common sense thing I have ever heard.
@BanditFoxx9 ай бұрын
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-cx3gk8 ай бұрын
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.
@nuncapasaran93748 ай бұрын
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.
@bingbong84648 ай бұрын
@@nuncapasaran9374it starts from the cloud but it only sometimes touches the ground
@1990tattoo8 ай бұрын
@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
@deang56228 ай бұрын
@@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.
@idontknowaname15877 ай бұрын
Him: "A thunderstorm is thought to contain enough power of an atomic bomb" Me watching a guy survive 3 lightning bolts:
@ceciljoel95774 ай бұрын
This guy really thinks lighting contains that much power to equal a nuclear bomb😂😂😂
@idontknowaname15874 ай бұрын
@@ceciljoel9577 it's hilarious on how you are reacting to my comment
@ceciljoel95774 ай бұрын
@@idontknowaname1587 i was talking about the video creator not you
@idontknowaname15874 ай бұрын
@@ceciljoel9577 good to know
@glad_is_life10 ай бұрын
Don't worry guys, I got this *pulls out Minecraft lightning Rod *
@fukamikara10 ай бұрын
FR LOL
@Axiust10 ай бұрын
Legends say the statue of liberty is a witch farm😂😂😂
@mohawk101010 ай бұрын
Pulls out stardew valley lighting rod that actully makes batteries when struck by lightning
@DeWhytePoverty10 ай бұрын
TESLA HOLD MY COILS
@Danilio.10 ай бұрын
That's what I was thinking lol
@aniketsrivastava187010 ай бұрын
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😂😂😂
@aldahirrodriguezsotelo324410 ай бұрын
@@aniketsrivastava1870We'll build a tall one that does!
@jayzm774910 ай бұрын
Fr
@DeWhytePoverty10 ай бұрын
@@aniketsrivastava1870 You have No Clue Cern Hold my partical colliders.
@insectslayer13747 ай бұрын
NikolaTesla:"I missed the part where that's my problem"
@ItsVsenpai3 ай бұрын
Look at Little free think junior, gonna cry😂
@cody-e10 ай бұрын
Him: we don’t have something that could survive a lightning bolt Benjamin Franklin:
@MrClefMusic10 ай бұрын
Real
@xenophobicsokkorean605510 ай бұрын
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
@teufelhund380110 ай бұрын
@@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.
@Akniy10 ай бұрын
@@teufelhund3801If that worked then they would have been doing it
@IAmSkystrike10 ай бұрын
I dunno man, he’s not alive anymore. Doesn’t seem like a worthy investment.
@rodney181811 ай бұрын
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
@kurostyx912410 ай бұрын
holy
@JLL_2910 ай бұрын
Try using these: coma(,) and dot(.)
@times5ive10 ай бұрын
@@kurostyx9124nice profile pic
@segsfault10 ай бұрын
fake story, science isn't sciencing here.
@Airdel10 ай бұрын
Cursed charger
@MrEditor60007 ай бұрын
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.
@Gravedigger93310 ай бұрын
Fun fact: The sound of thunder is caused by the heat of lighting bots exploding the air around them.
@antoineboucher53919 ай бұрын
Thats very interesting!
@sidharthpj228910 ай бұрын
My teacher in school said that scientists once tried it and all the batteries just exploded.
@chimika50256 ай бұрын
"there really isn't much of the total energy left when it hits the ground" tree : 🔥
@Slomsy10 ай бұрын
So basically, you don’t want to turn lightning into energy but direct the build up of potential elecrticity.
@arketsjenkins50169 ай бұрын
Ye ppl think that thunder=electricity but what is does is just releasing the built up potential...
@maxkhunglo621110 ай бұрын
In my childhood my mom asked me that question and asked me to come up with a solution.
@Skrajne_centrum10 ай бұрын
In other words you are a failure to her
@maxkhunglo621110 ай бұрын
@@Skrajne_centrum well, it is what it is.
@mohammadalmasalmeh610 ай бұрын
@arkadiuszbialas1602 nah bro you talking it far I mean you not wrong but what if he still a kid lol😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@TravTrevTV10 ай бұрын
average asian mom
@fungmonger300010 ай бұрын
Lmao
@SolarScootersuk7 ай бұрын
Predicting lightning strikes: Own a DeLorean
@joshuaweezorak704210 ай бұрын
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
@1ZombieMan19 ай бұрын
Source I made it up
@RONK-ve9yq9 ай бұрын
@@1ZombieMan1Nope,lightning rods very much do exist.Do ya research first.
@Haispawner9 ай бұрын
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-ve9yq9 ай бұрын
@@Haispawner That wasn't the topic,yes they store extremely low amounts of energy.
@kaosunokami9 ай бұрын
bro did not play Minecraft couldn't figure out rods attract lightning 😩
@PoochyMishaps9 ай бұрын
"It's too much power for our technology to handle" "It's not enough power because it's hot and bright"
@Haispawner9 ай бұрын
When did he even say that first one?
@PoochyMishaps8 ай бұрын
@@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
@LightMan10108 ай бұрын
@@Haispawnerahh... Sorry, you can't be e researcher! 😂
@tydy52668 ай бұрын
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
@PoochyMishaps8 ай бұрын
@@tydy5266 you're not wrong, but that's not funny. I wanted a slight chuckle.
@MiggyBasteMas7 ай бұрын
And this is also why most houses have a Metal silver roof
@RippyLol9 ай бұрын
"And we don't have technology that could survive such a quick massive bolt" The lightning pole: Am I a joke to you?
@OtherPeople1599 ай бұрын
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..
@johnf43889 ай бұрын
He means electrical circuits, like a battery or a capacitor
@Fiatluc9 ай бұрын
@@johnf4388nobody tried building one.
@johnf43889 ай бұрын
@@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.
@Oblivion4eg8 ай бұрын
@@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-kg5xn2lf2c10 ай бұрын
There has been an experiment in Europe. They successfully directed it with a laser.
@AstroPlayser10 ай бұрын
Yes-but it used more power than it produced back.
@mmh753410 ай бұрын
@@AstroPlayser but it worked though
@AstroPlayser10 ай бұрын
@@mmh7534 okay? it wont ever be used again if it’s input/output ratio is below 1.
@Kaleki93510 ай бұрын
@@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.
@vitalproto10 ай бұрын
@@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
@VerziiUHC7 ай бұрын
*I remember when I played Minecraft, I used the Lightning Rod to not burn my house down. 💀*
@amogussus897910 ай бұрын
Alright redstoners, its your time to shine
@cezarcatalin140610 ай бұрын
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.
@jns01329 ай бұрын
@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 🥸🤔
@yupitzmeeee10 ай бұрын
"The reason that we won't, might surprise u" Bro those were the exact reasons I thought 😂
@BackYardScience2000Ай бұрын
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.
@johnhonker4379 ай бұрын
"I'm wearing glasses, so I MUST know what I'm talking about."
@scazab64087 ай бұрын
?????
@PopPlayz086 ай бұрын
Everything he said makes sense??????
@its.sensei6 ай бұрын
@@PopPlayz08 dude really? 🙄
@PopPlayz086 ай бұрын
@@its.sensei upon rewatching the video a couple times, and reading other peoples comments, not really.
@jayarajs36966 ай бұрын
😄😄
@flower69168 ай бұрын
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.
@martinmarkov97078 ай бұрын
Free means it doesn't generate profit.
@Owen-sx4jj7 ай бұрын
Yh. It's Atmos electricity which is what gravity actually is as well not some bendy early space time reification fallacy.
@adude79447 ай бұрын
Sooo you gotta build a really high metal tower and power starts flowing
@emarythomp4 ай бұрын
@@Owen-sx4jjwhat
@PoliticalFelon4 ай бұрын
Money
@ZAdonX7 ай бұрын
blud forgot about copper's existence💀💀💀
@Vindiorix10 ай бұрын
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.
@dreadlocsamurai42418 ай бұрын
That’s crazy
@Jimothy-7238 ай бұрын
@@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.
@LouisKing9958 ай бұрын
Incorrect, the majority of lightning strikes are (CG) cloud to ground, strikes. Only a small number are GC.
@antivlad72878 ай бұрын
Lol, there are different types of lightning
@MrCoffis7 ай бұрын
The energy flows from the sky to the ground though.
@06racing10 ай бұрын
It's almost like a lightning strike is meant to dissipate energy
@alfr3649Ай бұрын
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-Fusion00110 ай бұрын
Gonna need world leaders to discuss with Zeus in harvesting lighting
@joshuagenes10 ай бұрын
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.
@ancientlink07 ай бұрын
Its because Lightning has amost no energy. Only about 8kwh not enough to power 1 home
@joyvillanueva14637 ай бұрын
Copper rods that are 1meter higher than a skyscraper the roots are spread out into multiple batteries, factories, etc. ---Theodore
@lancethrustworthy10 ай бұрын
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.
@deanonesense10 ай бұрын
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.
@cezarcatalin140610 ай бұрын
@@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-cx3gk8 ай бұрын
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!
@buttrnaan8 ай бұрын
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-ch4tk4 ай бұрын
But the issue is the speed at which it does so. We don't have any machine to harness that at that speed
@hydrolink5297Ай бұрын
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.10 ай бұрын
Neon: hold my Drink Pack: Beer
@TheFool_010 ай бұрын
Lightning strikes the same spot fairly often usually.
@mranonymous462910 ай бұрын
theres a video of a man getting hit 3 times by lightning on KZbin just look it up if you don't believe me
@KongZilla8274 ай бұрын
But. I read somewhere that we are building up techs to somehow command and direct lightning I know not how accurate this might be
@ainamal10 ай бұрын
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_10 ай бұрын
Literally having a thunderstorm rn.💀
@MohammadNaseerHashimi8 ай бұрын
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.
@Jefftheturtle11910 ай бұрын
“So you’re saying that back to the future is a bunch of bullshit!?”
@gigaus010 ай бұрын
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.]
@Blitzkit7 ай бұрын
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?
@deepmalyadas658511 ай бұрын
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 ?
@mauzeking666110 ай бұрын
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.
@Bremend10 ай бұрын
@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.
@G0RSHK0V10 ай бұрын
@@mauzeking6661laser will use more power than you can harvest
@G0RSHK0V10 ай бұрын
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
@mauzeking666110 ай бұрын
@@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.
@Proudmadarastan10 ай бұрын
We’ve all played Minecraft, why don’t we force the lightning to spawn where we want it to.
@kristinagraversgaard532810 ай бұрын
We need: A piston A lightning rod A channeling trident A command block And lastly, Redstone stuff.
@BurakkuHishou4 ай бұрын
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.
@ST0IC10 ай бұрын
Thor: "You can't see me, my time is now!" 🤣
@pancakemixwithblueberriesinit10 ай бұрын
I feel like a video with a scene full of extremely fast lightning flashes should have an epilepsy warning beforehand.
@D3PU7Y4 ай бұрын
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_10 ай бұрын
‘Have you ever wondered why we don’t harvest lightning?’ *no, I can’t say that I have.*
@Qualicabyss10 ай бұрын
I dont believe you
@Ag3ntP_10 ай бұрын
@@Qualicabyss ya caught me 😞
@rynocerusrex505010 ай бұрын
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
@christophertaylor9100Ай бұрын
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.
@audiesshvfx10 ай бұрын
HEAT ENERGY AND LIGHT ENERGY!!! YOU JUST ANSWERED MY HOMEOWRK QUESTION TYYYYYYYYYYY
@shadow1339210 ай бұрын
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)
@odingtonАй бұрын
Before the lightning hits, it's stored as static in the cloud. We could find a way to drain it gradually
@jaysonlincoln9 ай бұрын
So we just gotta store it before it hits the ground
@reubenjaime56318 ай бұрын
That’s what Tesla was all about chap
@demilung10 ай бұрын
It's a simple conversation, really - Hey why don't we harvest lightning? - How? - Well, I dunno... - Neither do I.
@Flakz91110 ай бұрын
I know, but im not telling 🫢
@Palidor19Ай бұрын
When they do create that technology, they definitely call it “Mjolnir”
@debashishsmith10 ай бұрын
Thor entered the chat ⚡⚡
@ZXTYYY_darksouls_guy10 ай бұрын
*Copper rod and other conductors have left the chat* Edit, okay ma! I got the most likes yet! Will I be famous?
@joshmakarenko580910 ай бұрын
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
@kingiument462710 ай бұрын
@@joshmakarenko5809Slow asf because its made by apple
@ToastedNuggie10 ай бұрын
bro skipped education to play minecraft
@sonicsupersam779310 ай бұрын
no way minecraft that’s crazy
@liamdj653510 ай бұрын
@@joshmakarenko5809capacitors
@squishvr1746 ай бұрын
"We dont have technology that can survive this surge of energy" CERN: allow us to introduce ourselves.
@FishingWithSails10 ай бұрын
"You can't predict where a lightning bolt is going to strike" Just put a lightning rod anywhere in Florida.
@jonathanfalvo241410 ай бұрын
We have self driving taxis but we can’t design a capacitor to store the energy from a lightning bolt? Something ain’t right.
@jacob505810 ай бұрын
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@Gadavillers-Panoir10 ай бұрын
I think this is like trying to charge an absolutely gigantic battery from 0% to 100% in less than a second.
@arakkh.928010 ай бұрын
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.
@genericwhitemale956610 ай бұрын
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.
@lumin646410 ай бұрын
@@arakkh.9280it’d be the same tech used to store energy from fusion generators, still niche but more consistently useful
@IAMAKNUCKLESFAN4 ай бұрын
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-vo6qz2 ай бұрын
No its cause Zeus will be mad
@christiansnow16010 ай бұрын
Fun Fact: A Single Lighting Bolt Is Twice As Hot As The Surface Of The Sun
@antoineboucher53919 ай бұрын
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
@EatOnionz9 ай бұрын
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.
@AAAAHHHHHHHHHH9 ай бұрын
@@EatOnionzthe surface of the sun is surprisingly not that hot… well not that hot compared to the core
@Ezbanta2 ай бұрын
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-POW9 ай бұрын
To summarize: We don’t, because we can't. We don't have the technology or equipment for it.
@j.christie25949 ай бұрын
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.
@vmdenis33509 ай бұрын
We do, nikola tesla did it
@NoName-cx3gk8 ай бұрын
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.christie25948 ай бұрын
@@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.
@as94994 ай бұрын
The energy in the lighting peaks exactly at the point when two clouds collide, we just need to target there
@norwegiansmores811Ай бұрын
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.
@solarwolf13367 ай бұрын
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
@drippylightbulb46344 ай бұрын
I saw lightning start to break apart but I guess it wasn’t a myth.
@KingJuju09074 ай бұрын
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 💭🤔
@joshmill92217 ай бұрын
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
@xXRiZzO4 ай бұрын
I was losing my mind until the second half of the short lol.
@thinkhine88666 ай бұрын
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.
@radioactive43882 ай бұрын
Funny that , it still takes out humans with all that lost energy
@F-zi2ui5 ай бұрын
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.
@GuidedBreathing6 ай бұрын
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😅)
@williamargott3983 ай бұрын
Makes sense, helps explain why people aren’t instantly vaporized when struck by lightning
@steeledgator7 ай бұрын
Of course you can predict where it will strike. Lightning has rules for conductivity as well as it strikes the tallest objects first
@SolarRage4 ай бұрын
Did you know lightning is a gamma ray 👇
@kinglil5465 ай бұрын
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.
@airraverstaz4 ай бұрын
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.
@Technooooooblade4 ай бұрын
“We can’t predict where lightning will strike” Minecraft players: says who?
@nightmareSubject9997 ай бұрын
I call lightning the wraith of the gods because Zeus uses lightning for a weapon