How get eletricity from lightning?
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To harness the electricity usefully would be huge, but exceedingly difficult.\n\nYou could fly a kite with a wire string in a thunderstorm. \n\nDON"T TRY THIS UNLESS YOU FULLY UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN 100,000,000 VOLTS DOES WHEN TRAVELING THROUGH ANYTHING IN ITS PATH!
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Look at this page it will tell you what you need. \n\nhttp://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocMLAWorksCited_ElecSources.html
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Just look inside a flashlight.  Simple circuit with a switch.  Open the switch, no light.  Close the switch (turn on light), you have current flowin'.
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something that would show the different properties of electricity. its easy to do, doesn't require a lot of time, and you can look up a million things relating to it on the internet
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Get a ac to dc converter and just add a plug to the light bar.
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neither just full of lightning...LOL! It's me 10 points.\neverything_sweet_npink♥
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You can tell how far away a lightning storm is by listening to the thunder. I can't find it in my science book, but it takes about five second for sound to travel a mile, so watch the lightning, and after it flashes, count how many seconds it is before you hear the thunder. If its like five seconds, its a mile. like that. look at these websites.\n\n\nhttp://www.tornadochaser.com/tormake20.htm\n\nhttp://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/whys/thunder2.htm
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First answer said convert Joules in electron volts and then compute. You don't need to convert to eV; just divide joules by potential difference (volts) to get 5 coulombs.
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its electrical properties
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100,000 volts for negative bolts\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning\n\nAn average bolt of positive lightning ... up to 1 gigavolt (a thousand million volts)
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In my opinion, ESE is a bunch of hot air.  The link below shows a few scientists/engineers that are also opposed to the idea being any more effective than the normal lightning rod.\n\nThe best lightning protection we have now is a well-placed lightning rod system connected with appropriately sized cable.  The cable should lead to a buried rod that is suffiiciently deep.
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Hurricanes typically don't produce much lightning, but sometimes they can.\n\nHere is a website with some investigation about this.\n\n http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/essd16jun99_1.htm
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Thermal conductivity: \nCopper: \n9.2*10-2 (kcal/sec)/((m^2)(Cdegree/meter))\nAluminum: \n4.9*10-2 (kcal/sec)/((m^2)(Cdegree/meter))\n\nWe need to assume the rods don't loose any heat to the surroundings. Therefore the kcals conducted through both rods is equal. To calculate the heat conducted per second by the copper, multiply its conductivity, \n\n9.2*10-2 (kcal/sec)/((m^2)(Cdegree/meter)),\ntimes (A*50Cdegree/.88 m).\n\nSet that expression equal to aluminum's conductivity times A*50Cdegree/L. Simplify and solve for L.\n\nEdit: I don't know why the conductivity lines are truncated. Maybe Yahoo is making sure it is compatible with any screen resolution. Anyway, the truncated lines, that I see, should end with \n")(Cdegree/meter))".
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This might help\n\nhttp://www.ttec.co.tt/consumertips/conserveelectricity/default.htm
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http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=lightning&btnG=Search\nGoogle Image Search
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Thunder is just noise.  The electrical charge from the lightning is what does the damage.
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It wasn't really invented by Benjamin Franklyn but it was discovered by him. He was the first to realise that lightning was a power that somehow could be harnessed for the good of mankind. It was other scientists in Europe who actually did harness the power. But before all that, there were parlor toys people used to catch static electricity and show sparks but that type is not powerful.Edison had nothing to do with the creation of electricity but his genius invented a ton of stuff for us to use it in.