Lightning Energy

Hello all! Today's post is about harnessing lightning energy for use in various  kinds of energy applications the world over. Can we do it? There are many people who have thought that one could both harness (capture) and harvest (take) energy from lightning for centuries. Look at Benjamin Franklin for example. In his famous key experiment, he tied a key to a kite and sent the kite up high in the sky into a thunderstorm. There, he watched as lightning did indeed hit the key. He thought he could conduct the experiment again and this time capture the lightning stroke he generated in a glass jar. Unfortunately, no matter how hard he tried he could not store the lightning effectively. As we saw in the video last week, there are various ways in which we might be able to store the energy from a lightning stroke in fact, but one of them is not a glass jar. The advent of various kinds of electronics have brought us other electric storage methods such as capacitors and batteries. Storage methods such as these will fare better in storing lightning. But how about you? Can you discover the next best way to capture energy from lightning? How will you do it? How will you use the energy you capture? Think about it! That's all for now.