Lightning strike power plants using x-ray/ gamma ray laser possible?

[consuli]

It is well known for nearly a decade now,  that the discharge channel of a lightning strike is - at least to a certain degree - opened by a wave of x-ray and gamma ray, that pre-runs the electrical discharge.

J. R. Dwyer did a lot of research in this topic in his article "Implications of x‐ray emission from lightning".

He also made a photo of the x-ray inherited in a lightning strike, which was published by National Geographic in December 2010.

 

Does that also include, that the electrical discharge of a lightning strike can be directed to a certain location by artifically opening a discharge channel through an x-ray or gamma-ray laser beam?

If so, it is possible to build a lightning strike power plant with a x-ray or gamma-ray laser beam on top of a huge high voltage capacitor, that gets charged by the lightning strike, right?

In some regions ot the earth, e.g. in the north of brazil, lightning strike happen frequently nearly every day. 

 

Edited May 7, 2019 by consuli

[Bufofrog]

I think you have your cause and effect wrong.  You are effectively saying a burst of x-rays cause the lightning as opposed to lightning producing x-rays.

There is not that much energy in a lightning strike anyway.

From Wiki "Harvesting lightning"

According to Martin A. Uman, co-director of the Lightning Research Laboratory at the University of Florida and a leading authority on lightning,^[9] a single lightning strike, while fast and bright, contains very little energy, and dozens of lightning towers like those used in the system tested by AEHI would be needed to operate five 100-watt light bulbs for the course of a year. When interviewed by The New York Times, he stated that the energy in a thunderstorm is comparable to that of an atomic bomb, but trying to harvest the energy of lightning from the ground is "hopeless"