Can you save electricity from lightning?

Sure, it’s possible. Unfortunately, relying on lightning bolts to power our hair dryers, TVs, and refrigerators would be far from cost effective. The problem is that the energy in lightning is contained in a very short period of time, only a few microseconds.

Can lightning be stored and used?

No it can’t be stored. It has to be stored and converted to an alternating current, without blowing out the collection system in a single large strike. Third, the energy contained in a lightning bolt disperses as it travels down to Earth, so a tower would only capture a small fraction of the bolt’s potential.

Can lightning strike be harnessed?

Thus thousands of turbines can generate a power which is almost equal to the initial power of the lightning. Thus the power of a lightning can be effectively harnessed and utilized for powering up even the entire city.

Can scientists make lightning?

Although scientists have been able to trigger lightning strikes since the 1970s by shooting small rockets into thunderclouds that spool long wires connected to the ground, typically only 50 percent of rocket launches actually trigger a lightning strike.

Why can’t lightning be used as a source of electrical energy?

With the current technology, you can’t use lightning energy as a source of electrical energy. Simply because lightning has tremendous amount of energy and to collect that energy is very difficult because when lightning strikes, it generates heat that is 6times the heat at the surface of the sun.

Is it possible to store lightning energy?

Lightning is a flow of electricity, and as such cannot be stored. But it may eventually be possible to store the huge amount of electric charge that comes down during lightning discharges. No one as yet has perfected the technology for that.

Why don’t we see lightning more often?

Here are some of the problematic details: Most places receive lightning very infrequently, but have a steady demand for electrical energy. Lightning has a high voltage but not a huge amount of current. Much of the energy of the lightning discharge goes into heating up the air and making the glow.

Is it possible to harness lightning power?

Trying to harness that power at that moment would be equivalent to trying to harness atomic energy at the moment a bomb explodes. A more rational approach is to harness the electrical potential before lightning can strike.