Lightning energy free gift from nature.Storage of such energy helpful to further use.
A practical means of storing lightning energy is feasible, it simply requires the will to do it. It requires a network of equal resistance legs, a network of voltage dividers, to lower the voltage to the point that it can charge capacitors without blowing through the dielectric. It would also require inductors in the divider legs to slow the rise time. The resistance legs would form a web of cables connected to an area network of distributed spikes, or lightning rods, at one end, and lead to a facility of storage capacitors and voltage regulators and inverters that would bleed the captured energy into the power grid, at the other. It would be worth the expense to carry out such a project in certain areas where lightning storms are frequent, in order to study the economic practicality of such lightning harvesting systems.
most of the trails failed. Nikola Tesla invented a method to store energy of lightning.
lighting energy is in the form of electric charges (positive or negative).
Arpana,
i am not sure why you have opted to consider Lightening as a source of energy when there are many other safer sources of renewable energy. Some of us grew up fearing lightening.
Well the idea it self is not bad and there could be future chances of capturing or at least the safe disposal of this energy which can be harmful sometimes as it has caused many causalities in various parts of the world. The one way we protect buildings from that electric shock by using a metal rod slighting above the top surface of buildings which connects to ground and safely discharge that energy. so that safe discharge can give some new way to use this energy during the safe disposal or discharge of that energy. Well I think in future we can see some improvement in this field and some physics experts and electrical engineers may help with that, But the potential of using will remain still in doldrums as its not always or frequently available for experimentation except in certain seasons.
Maybe, this could be useful
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148110004982
Regards
A practical means of storing lightning energy is feasible, it simply requires the will to do it. It requires a network of equal resistance legs, a network of voltage dividers, to lower the voltage to the point that it can charge capacitors without blowing through the dielectric. It would also require inductors in the divider legs to slow the rise time. The resistance legs would form a web of cables connected to an area network of distributed spikes, or lightning rods, at one end, and lead to a facility of storage capacitors and voltage regulators and inverters that would bleed the captured energy into the power grid, at the other. It would be worth the expense to carry out such a project in certain areas where lightning storms are frequent, in order to study the economic practicality of such lightning harvesting systems.
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