Making consumable electricity from lightning bolts - is it possible?

[a_tinkerer]

Nikola Tesla has always been my hero. (1856 to 1943)

 

He invented alternating current which led to setting up the first city in the world with electricity. 6 of his patents went into developing the first telephone. He invented wireless transmissions before Maconi (despite what the patent office said), the precursor to our modern cell phones. He invented the first modern electric motor & electric car run from his wireless electrical plant which was stolen when his workshop plant was burnt down. He of course invented the Tesla coil. He invented basic circuit elements,the precursor to computers. He invented wireless electricity which still hasn't gone main stream today. Plus he invented a hoard of other patents all brought for a bargain basement price. He was probably the most electrically intuitive genius that ever walked our planet.

 

Where ever Nikola Tesla went to get inspiration it certainly was certainly somewhere special. His sense of adventure into electricity and discoveries need to be taken a step further.

 

Tasers that the Police use with 2 wires have been replaced in some circles by wireless Tasers that send out an ironized laser that electricity flows along.

 

Lightning puts out ironized feelers a split nano-second before sending out a lightning bolt from a negative charged point to a positive charged point.

 

Could it be possible to send an ironized lazer or similar device up through a small hole in a large suspended dense metal object and bring down a lightning bolt.

 

Nasa once sent up a small rocket on a cloudless day with a copper wire attached & brought down a lightning bolt.

 

Could multiple strikes of lightning (1 to 30 minutes apart) charge a number of capacitors the size of 20 foot containers to super heat a body of water with red hot coils which then drive turbines to create consumable electricity?

 

I have been told this would be not 'economical' to do by a member here in the forum.

 

Why?

 

Once one (or a number) of unit(s) are set up with the right economies of scale and the problems sorted out - why would the yearly running costs be higher than the income generated from selling the electricity?

 

Could making consumable electricity from lightning bolts work in theory?

 

 

Edited October 31, 2012 by a_tinkerer

[John Cuthber]

Nikola Tesla has always been my hero. (1856 to 1943)

 

He invented alternating current which led to setting up the first city in the world with electricity. 6 of his patents went into developing the first telephone. He invented wireless transmissions before Maconi (despite what the patent office said), the precursor to our modern cell phones. He invented the first modern electric motor & electric car run from his wireless electrical plant which was stolen when his workshop plant was burnt down. He of course invented the Tesla coil. He invented basic circuit elements,the precursor to computers. He invented wireless electricity which still hasn't gone main stream today. Plus he invented a hoard of other patents all brought for a bargain basement price. He was probably the most electrically intuitive genius that ever walked our planet.

 

Where ever Nikola Tesla went to get inspiration it certainly was certainly somewhere special. His sense of adventure into electricity and discoveries need to be taken a step further.

 

Tasers that the Police use with 2 wires have been replaced in some circles by wireless Tasers that send out an ironized laser that electricity flows along.

 

Lightning puts out ironized feelers a split nano-second before sending out a lightning bolt from a negative charged point to a positive charged point.

 

Could it be possible to send an ironized lazer or similar device up through a small hole in a large suspended dense metal object and bring down a lightning bolt.

 

Nasa once sent up a small rocket on a cloudless day with a copper wire attached & brought down a lightning bolt.

 

Could multiple strikes of lightning (1 to 30 minutes apart) charge a number of capacitors the size of 20 foot containers to super heat a body of water with red hot coils which then drive turbines to create consumable electricity?

I have been told this would be not 'economical' to do by a member here in the forum.

 

Why?

 

Once one (or a number) of unit(s) are set up with the right economies of scale and the problems sorted out - why would the yearly running costs be higher than the income generated from selling the electricity?

 

Could making consumable electricity from lightning bolts work in theory?

 

Because it is, as you would know if you had searched the forum before posting.

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