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Could We Harvest Power From Lightning? (www.youtube.com)
submitted 5 months ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/xkcd@lemmy.world
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[–] hotdogthud@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

1.21 gigawatts worth, yeah.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

jigawatts

[–] hiddenuser420@feddit.dk 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

now I want tornado turbines

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Read Echopraxia! Genius monks have exactly that in the desert powering their facility.

Start with Blindsight first! (Only a 2 books altogether.)

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Been wondering about that.

[–] jafffacakelemmy@mander.xyz 0 points 5 months ago

Of course we could. However, a normal lightening bolt contains around 100 dollar's worth of electricity. The cost of the equipment to capture and convert that power would be 100's of thousands of dollars. Combined with the uncertainty of the supply, it'd be a heck of a vanity project.