Is electricity from lighting?

Question

okay well my one friend is trying to tell me that we get electricity by catching lightning and harnessing it's power, i don't believe him at all but he says like "well how do we get it then" and i think it's like we get it somehow by water flowing and the windmills and stuff but I'm not sure...

Answer 1

power plants... create it

wind

water

fire

sun

i dont think its possible to use lightning due it being unreliable.. insane amount of volts that only last for a short time

Answer 2

Definitely. Ask Ben Franklin.

But of course I can tell you that lightning is the biggest part of what is called "static electricity."

Unstable air parcels in a thundercloud causes strong enough imbalances in the cloud (in the form of negative and positive charges)......strong enough that something has to give to cancel them out.

That "cancellation" is the flash of lightning you see.

Other parameters that causes lightning flashes include very high steep lapse rates and enough elevated and surface-based convection by way of CAPE---convective available potential energy, expressed in j/kg....or "joules per kilogram".

About 300 to 400 j/kg or more is enough to trigger lightning flashes.

Answer 3

Yes it is.

Answer 4

You simply can not catch the lightning so you can not generate the Electricity from lightning. To generate Electricity two devices are required. One is Turbine and other is generator. The turbine is coupled to the generator and when the turbine is rotated, generator generates the Electricity. You require mechanical power to rotate the turbine. This power is derived from Wind or water or Gas or Coal. Nuclear power can also be used to rotate the turbine.