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nomercy400 • today at 11:46 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

How many batteries in parallel would you need to capture the power of a lightning strike?


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onraglanroad • today at 4:51 PM

As mentioned, you can't do it with batteries.

To capture the 1.21 GW from a lightening strike requires a flux capacitor.

bluGill • today at 12:04 PM

As far as I know, we have yet to figure out how to capture power from a lightning strike. There is a lot of energy there, but it's static electricity which is completely different from what any grid runs on.

HPsquared • today at 12:00 PM

You'd probably use some kind of capacitor

Maxion • today at 11:51 AM

To capture it? Quite a few I'd imagine. The energy you could collect though from one hit is quite low.

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