Trapping & Harvesting Lightning Energy
Abstract
Energy is available in the universe in different forms. For any work to be done, energy is required. The need and scarcity of energy made the mankind for the search of different forms of energy. For centuries many scientists are in search of energy and have found many forms of renewable and non-renewable source of energy which are being used till date but the problem arises here that the sources which are non renewable (e.g: fossil fuels) are getting over day by day and it cannot be replenished. At this rate if this usage continues then by 2075 it will completely get over. Fossil fuels are given a very huge importance as mankind is completely dependent on this source of energy as 99% of transportation and automation uses fossil fuels. Due to this completion of energy mankind has started search of another source of energy that is sufficient and that can replace fossil fuels. After lots of research and analysis it has been noticed that lightening is a very huge source of energy.
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Introduction
In 1752, Electricity was discovered by Benjamin Franklin during his “Kite Experiment”. Then from late 19th century many research have been done to trap and harvest the energy from lightning. Lightning contains static electricity. The characteristic of this electricity is that it strikes to a point or a small area and just for some milliseconds lightning produces 100,000,000 volts in a single strike which is a very huge amount which has the capacity of running the any country for 2-3 days. As we know H2O has a very strong bonding and for breaking this bond a huge amount of energy is required and lightning has sufficient energy for the hydrolysis of water and hydrogen is itself a tremendous energy source. Hydrolysis means (“HYDRO= WATER”, “LYSIS= BREAKING”).
Conclusion
The search of ways of trapping and harvesting the lightning energy can be lessen to an extent and it can replace the use of fossil fuels and used in many ways, this may not be the end of search of source of energy but it can fulfill upto an huge extent.