In Paddy fields when lightening is struck, the rice corps absorb it and power is generated? Can someone expln?

Question

This power is utilised in satellites. Don't know how it is possible. They call that RP ( Rice Power ) .... Can someone explain this? Or is this all a bu s**+?

Answer 1

In instances such as this, a basic premise might be that phenomena usually acts the same way everywhere considering STP ...Irish Rice and Rice Crispy's is all the result I can forecast in such a scenario. To my estimation, Lightning is very difficult to store; it is, however, very flashy while doing it's non-storage/generation event.

Answer 2

Honestly, where do you read this c**p?

Answer 3

sounds like b.s. to me but I'm not a rocket surgeon.

Answer 4

Complete nonsense. There is such a thing as "rice power" that uses the biomass of rice or it's hulls to generate energy like any other crop material, no lightning involved. Someone could say that when lightning strikes it causes nitrogen to precipitate to the ground which the rice then uses to grow which is true, but that is a mineral and not energy from the lightning.

Answer 5

This sounds like a complete crock, actually.

Rice Power is obtained through processing the husks of rice, dude. Has little or nothing to do with lightning, other than electricity.

Answer 6

No, power is not generated from rice paddies.

However, there are over 1 million square kilometers of land being used for rice paddies. Rice, though, produces methane (a reasonably high chemical energy gas) via the breakdown of starch by methogenic bacteria living in the soil.

Recently in an 'Environmental Science & Technology' article, scientists discussed a process called rhizodeposition to capture some of the energy produced in rice paddies, possibly before it gets released in the form of methane.

So, there is a lot of potential for electricity generation from the methane produced from rice paddies, but the process is not being used at present.

Lightening is an atmospheric discharge of electricity. If lightening were to strike a rice paddy, it would only be a route for the electrostatic charges to neutralize, generating electricity in no way. It may burn the rice plants, however.

Even if lightening, by some twist of physics, made the rice paddies generate electricity, there is no feasible way to get the electricity to a satellite in orbit around our planet. Instead, these satellites (GPS, telecommunications, satellite TV etc.) rely on solar power generation and battery storage while in geostationary orbit around the earth.

Your 'Rice Power' idea may be referring to, as stated by another contributer, the electricity generated from the husks of rice.

To sum up:

*rice paddies do not generate electricity

*satellites do not rely on power from earth

So, you weren't complete bull, there are some truths to your ramblings.