2006-08-20 04:42:37 · 13 answers · asked by HadToAsk 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Excuse me,I meant lighning.........
2006-08-20 04:57:16 · update #1
Thunder is sound not energy.
2006-08-20 04:47:44 · answer #1 · answered by Firefly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Correction-thunder can be an energy source. It's just very insagnificant. It has been proven that sound can raise the temperature of water. Lightning's energy is different. There is a split-second of light produced. Lightning has a lot of power. Perhaps if lightning could be drawn to an area where a device is ready for it...the lightning would strike and cause a reaction that would produce energy.
2006-08-20 13:40:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not sure of your question.. Thunder does not make or store energy.. Thunder is, even today, not completely understood but modern science usually describes it is a sonic shock wave caused by the rapid heating and expansion of the air surrounding within a bolt of lightning. The bolt changes the air into plasma and it instantly explodes causing the sound known as a thunder clap.
This phenomenon occurs at the same time (lightning strike/air expansion thunderclap), but we hear thunder after we see lightning because light travels faster (186,000 miles / 299,338 kilometers per second) than sound (around 700 miles / 1,126 kilometers per hour but varies depending on temperature, humidity and air pressure.) In very close proximity to the lighting strike, sound and light can be heard and seen almost simultaneously.
2006-08-20 05:00:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lightening is not reliable or easily predictable. Since it has those two problems it is not likely that we could capture the energy to even begin to think about storing it.
Storage could theoritically be done by attaching high frequency filters to high voltage lines and directing the surge from the bolt into some adiabatic device that could use the heat to drive some device to generate electricity. This is clearly a blue sky idea and is probably not practical at all.
2006-08-20 08:06:03 · answer #4 · answered by Alan Turing 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
unfourtunatly sound energy isnt containable only because this priciple lightning is the cause and thunder is the result ok so lightning being electricity travels differenlty than sound waves and since sound does travel in waves it will bounce off of everything and is must go through things and this all effects its energy example thunder 5 miles away from a bolt reaches u in 5-10 seconds depending if it has to travel through a lot of obsticles
2006-08-23 15:41:23 · answer #5 · answered by LISSA 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No easy way, but thunderstorms usually result from cold air being advected (blown) over warmer ground. Wind turbines are a way of extracting this energy before it's converted to thunder and lightning.
2006-08-20 18:05:53 · answer #6 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thunder has no energy. thunder is simply the noise created due to the temperature difference between the outside air and lightning. lightning is what you meant to say and i dont know how because you cant predict where its gonna hit except in back to the future one.
2006-08-20 04:49:51 · answer #7 · answered by jim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll answer your question with this: One solar flare has enough energy to solve the world's energy problems. If you can devise a way to harness that energy it would be worth a Nobel Prize.
As in a solar flare, the energy in lightening is positive energy. In order to harness lightening or a solar flare you would have to generate enough negative energy to be able to contain them.
Does this help? I do not know of any device that could generate enough negative energy to harness eith one.
2006-08-21 11:55:30 · answer #8 · answered by swomedicineman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is more energy in lightning than there is in thunder....
2006-08-20 04:48:17 · answer #9 · answered by Mike B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it would be better to store the energy of lightning...
2006-08-20 04:48:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋