I tried coming up with some ideas for harnessing lightning power. Seems like such a waste. So much energy and so little use…
- Boil water to steam using a grid of metal wires that pass through a water container at the bottom of a lightning rod.
- Use a gear system to convert a lightning hit on a metal pedal to a lift of a heavy platform thus converting the electric energy to kinetic energy. when the platform falls back down it can be controlled to create electric power in a form that be used.
- Use the heat and pressure to create diamonds as outlined in another idea I posted previously.
- Use lightning rods in border fences for added security. When there are storms and patrolling the fence is unfriendly people are less likely to try to cross over if the fence draws any near lightening
- Use a combination of a lightening rod, mirrors and wires to collect lightning and retarget some of its power to specific targets
- Make lightning rods that are metallic tubes filled with water. Water will be heated or converted to steam and use some of the lightening energy.
- Create a grid of wires over a large area high in the sky to catch lightning and direct them to lightning power stations.
- Install solar electricity panels opposite lightning rods to use some of the light created by lightning as solar energy.
- Make the lightning pass through a large container with gas that would ignite and produce a lot of light such as neon and use it for solar panels
- Use a large grid of lightning rods deployed over a large land area to analyze lightning hits and evaluate why specific landing site for the lightning was chosen (gold is a good conductor… I would dig under a lightning hit zone)
