• Question: can clouds be used to help elecricity?

    Asked by dondon1 to Cathy, Jaz, Mark, Roma, Rory on 23 Jun 2014.
    • Photo: Jaz Rabadia

      Jaz Rabadia answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      lightning from clouds can produce a huge amount of electrcity..but collecting this can be difficult and dangerous as we dont know when or where lighting is going to strike…

      jaz

    • Photo: Cathy Fraser

      Cathy Fraser answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      As Jaz says – lightning has huge potential (!) but collecting the energy from there does pose some challenges!
      Electrical charges do build up in clouds as they are formed and grow – but there I’m afraid ends my knowledge on the subject. Perhaps it’s something you could google?

    • Photo: Mark Greaves

      Mark Greaves answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      It would be a good research project…’How to capture and store energy from lightning’

    • Photo: Roma Agrawal

      Roma Agrawal answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      Have you seen the photos of The Shard being hit by lightning!?

    • Photo: Rory Hadden

      Rory Hadden answered on 24 Jun 2014:

      As you an probably tell, we are pretty sceptical about this… I don’t think so either but I’d be happy to work on Mark’s research project…

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