It seems obvious that when lightening strikes thousands of volts of electricity are discharged instantly. This can not be harnessed because of its high intensity. Surely there must be a build-up of static before it reaches this point.
I am risking showing my ignorance but could not the clouds be regarded as a kind of battery storing electricity that could be tapped into. The answer to our energy problems could be drifting around above our heads.
I have put my head above the parapet and I now expect to have it blown off.
2007-02-28
01:49:24
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