How can one harness the power of lightining? What would need to happen for this to be possible?

Question

How can one harness the power of lightining? What would need to happen for this to be possible?

Answer 1

if your rich you can do what criss angel did and get hit by that generated lightning.. its like 3million volts.. maybe 3 billion i dont know

Answer 2

you watch too many movies man

Answer 3

You would have to stand on your roof with a lightening rod.

Come back and tell us what happened..........................

Answer 4

it is against the laws of physics. But then again, laws and rules are meant to be broken

Answer 5

Lightning can easily be conducted wits a large enough lightning rod. Many tall buildings have lightning rods to conduct the electricity in the direction in which they want it to go. (Away from occupants and internal workings.) You could store it in laser grade capiacitors, which can store/discharge large amounts of electricity without overloading. However, this would be extremely expensive and highly impractical. You would be much better off using solar or wind energy.

*I got information about the laser grade capacitors from an earlier answer by wingstwo. ~Kudos to wingstwo!

Answer 6

To actually harness the power you have to store it. Some experiments are pretty good at catching the current but the trouble is always how to you store that much power fast enough to get a majority of it into a system that can use it.

It would take huge capacitors to store it fast enough, but then you have to leak that off discreetly and what happens is that the charge fades before it can be stored.

This would take a semi-capacitance-battery, something which has eluded materials scientists for decades for not only this use but others such as regenerating brakes on cars.

Answer 7

only as a blast of electricity...it's too unpredictable and dangerous.  static electricity is only good for making your hair stand up.

Answer 8

an electric rod and a lot of wires.

Answer 9

you would need

-a lightning attractor (several of them)

-batteries

however, the lightning energy produces power  smaller than you think - because it only lasts for a split second.