Could We Harvest Power From Lightning?

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• hotdogthud@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  1.21 gigawatts worth, yeah.

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  • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    jigawatts

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• hiddenuser420@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  now I want tornado turbines

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Read Echopraxia! Genius monks have exactly that in the desert powering their facility.

    Start with Blindsight first! (Only a 2 books altogether.)

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• jafffacakelemmy@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Of course we could. However, a normal lightening bolt contains around 100 dollar’s worth of electricity. The cost of the equipment to capture and convert that power would be 100’s of thousands of dollars. Combined with the uncertainty of the supply, it’d be a heck of a vanity project.

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• pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Been wondering about that.

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