Is lightning potential or kinetic?

Question

and is its energy transfer conduction, convection, or radiation? And how and what's an example???

Answer 1

My word people, keep a simple question simple or they will be asking questions on explaining your answers.

Lightning is STATIC discharge.Lightning is the "static" discharge of electricity that builds up between the clouds and earth. The charge actually goes up from the ground to the clouds, even though the lightning appears to travel from the clouds down. (there is a complicated reason). This is why your skin will "tingle" and your hair will stand just before lightning strikes you. During a
good rain storm, the rain drops will carry the static charge to the ground and no lightning will take place. There are occasions when the charge is excessive even with rain and lightning strikes. From flash to bang, count the number of seconds and divide by 5. So if 5 seconds go by between lightning and thunder, it is one mile away.
Lightning rods work in the way that they continuously allow the
static to trickle to ground and no charge builds up.

Answer 2

Lightning is the discharging of potential energy so I suppose it'd technically be kinetic in nature. Potential energy doesn't do the doing....the potential for something to happen is there. For example, if you were walking along a cliff, you have the potential to fall off, that potential energy turns into kinetic energy when you fall.

Lightning is the result of conduction.

Answer 3

Polarization mechanism theory
The mechanism by which charge separation happens is still the subject of research, but one theory is the polarization mechanism, which has two components:

Falling droplets of ice and rain become electrically polarized as they fall through the atmosphere's natural electric field;
Colliding ice particles become charged by electrostatic induction.
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Electrostatic induction theory
Another theory is that opposite charges are driven apart by the above mechanism and energy is stored in the electric fields between them. Cloud electrification appears to require strong updrafts which carry water droplets upward, supercooling them to -10 to -20 C. These collide with ice crystals to form a soft ice-water mixture called graupel. The collisions result in a slight positive charge being transferred to ice crystals, and a slight negative charge to the graupel. Updrafts drive lighter ice crystals upwards, causing the cloud top to accumulate increasing positive charge. The heavier negatively charged graupel falls towards the middle and lower portions of the cloud, building up an increasing negative charge. Charge separation and accumulation continue until the electrical potential becomes sufficient to initiate lightning discharges.
I would say lighening is potential and transfers it's engery by by conduction, convection .
light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation are emmitted along with lightening.

Answer 4

Kinetic energy is motion––of waves, electrons, atoms, molecules, substances, and objects.
Electrical Energy is a form of Kinetic energy. Electrical Energy is the movement of electrical charges. Everything is made of tiny particles called atoms. Atoms are made of even smaller particles called electrons, protons, and neutrons. Applying a force can make some of the electrons move. Electrical charges moving through a wire is called electricity. Lightning is another example of electrical energy.

Answer 5

i'm not sure about that but for conduction is like the metal spoon that put in a cup of tea and u can feel it on the end of the spoon.for convection is like the land breeze and sea breeze.it is transfer trough the moving air.the radiation is like the sun light that radiate to the earth

Answer 6

It is a release of potental electrical charge, built up from friction in the atmoshere.