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How to attract lightning


steven2451

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You'll find that it's very hard to capture lightning. First of all, a lightning bolt can hit 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit, so you'd have to make a very durable battery. Lightning is also static electricity, not AC or DC as in your average battery or power outlet, so you'd have to figure out how to convert it.

 

If you want to make a rod attract lightning, it's fairly simple: make it positively charged.

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a battery would be a silly idea as it stores a charge electro-Chemicaly, a capacitor stores the charge itself and is much better suited for electrostatics.

 

if you Really want to call the lightening, then a long length of very fine copper wire aranged in a large loose loop attatched to a rocket with a needle tip ought to do the trick quite nicely. however I wouldn`t want to be within 100 metres of the thing if you tried it!

you`de still get some interesting fulgerites if the cap failed to charge though :)

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basically if there were a safe, effective way to store the power of lightning, it would be being used, instead of just grounding out all those lightning rods on the tops of sky scrapers.

 

True, the oly savfe thing to do with that much power right now is to earth it - you can't even run it directly int the power grid!

 

Cheers,

 

Ryan Jones

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