Hi
My suspicion is that if a person could store the energy from lightening strikes, one could use them for a renewable power source. Is there any information on such a project?
God bless,
Mark
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From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: How much power in a lightning strike? RE: Lightning Arresters
I did a research paper in high school on lightning and I have watched
several lightning specials on satellite channels over the years, plus, as
mentioned earlier, I was three feet from a lightning flash over, for what
that is worth, but according to one of the articles I read for my research
paper, lightning bolts can have up to 1 billion volts and 500 amps of power.
This generally , according to what I have read, is the extreme high end of
the rating but you can be 20 miles distant from a storm and still be struck
by a lightning bolt. I've also been about 75 feet from a telephone pole
that was hit by lightning. One of the problems of being struck seems to be
if you are carrying an Ipod, a cellphone, or any electronic device based
upon the bulk of the research to date. I carry my cell phone with a clip on
the back of it and clip it to my shirt pocket, instead of a belt clip,
because that way I don't keep brushing the phone off my belt when passing
too closely to a table or chair. So, in short, if I'm hit, maybe my heart
will be the focus of the strike. Ball lightning I have confirmed by two
different people. One was a Nebraska farmer who saw lightning strike a
tree, roll down to the ground in a ball, and literally roll along the ground
until it hit a fence post or something sticking up in its way and then
exploded as it that was where it hit in the first place. Another farmer
friend watched from the house as lightning, in New York, struck the ground,
bounced 4 and 5 times into the air, and then finally exploded. That's some
pretty weird plasma that I don't want to be around when it hits.
Phil.
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