Powergen from lightning and thunder? AGAIN?
> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:31:54 -0800> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > [email protected]> Subject: [Assam] Meghalaya -clouds Land - power > generation: from Lightning> > Meghalaya has high mountains where it rains > more than anywhere else in the world -- ideal for power generation by > sticking lightning poles among low hung clouds> > Umesh> PS: was reviewing > lightning theory for high school students at > http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/estatics/u8l4e.html> > > -------------------------------------> > > > http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Lightning_20Power_20Plant> Problem with > lightning is the speed that it happens. So much energy in a tiny amount of > time....it just fries/melts/destroys whatever tries to conduct it. Think of > it this way: normal power sources is like taking a sip of water from a garden > hose...lightning power supply is like trying to take a sip of water from > Niagra falls. But I have heard an idea of how to defeat the overwhelming > blast of energy... Say you had a huge PVC pipe or something that you could > channel all of Niagra falls into (use your imagination..)...now reduce the > overwhelming blast of water by dividing the water into 100 smaller pipes from > the main one. And then 100 pipes on each of those. (that crazy octopus comes > to mind..) Eventually, when you take one pipe, it will have the pressure of > the garden hose, and not all of the falls. So take this idea and substitute > niagra falls for lightning, pipes for conductive material, and water for > electricity. But when you build all this stuff, you need to think> about the > economics of doing so and I think THAt is precisely why we haven't done it > yet.> ---------------------------------> blaah, Sep 23 2001> > I confess to > giving this notion some serious thought a fair number of years ago. I > concluded that if you really want to collect lightning energy, you need to go > to the clouds, because more than 90% of all strikes are cloud-to-cloud. > > Obviously, you also need a special vehicle. I chose a dirigible design. NOT > to be inflated with hydrogen, of course! In fact, I considered vacuum-balloon > technology, and spent some time looking for a suitable material from which to > construct vacuum balloons. (More on that elsewhere on the Halfbakery.)> > > Umesh Sharma> > Washington D.C. > > 1-202-215-4328 [Cell]> > Ed.M. - > International Education Policy> Harvard Graduate School of Education,> > Harvard University,> Class of 2005> > > http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)> > > http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)> > > > > www.gse.harvard.edu/iep > (where the above 2 are used )> http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/> > > > > http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/> > ---------------------------------> Yahoo! > Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. Tryit now.> > _______________________________________________> assam mailing list> > [email protected]> http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org _________________________________________________________________ Post free property ads on Yello Classifieds now! www.yello.in http://ss1.richmedia.in/recurl.asp?pid=219 _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
