HARVESTING OR DIRECTING OF LIGHTINING ENERGY
Xəyyam QULIYEV
,Qafqaz University
qxeyyam@gmail.com
Lightning is the result of a large charge separation within a cloud. Clouds are composed of millions of ice particles and
water droplets. These particles collide with other condensing moisture as it rises, and when they do, electrons are knocked
loose. These electrons build up at the bottom of a cloud and make it negatively charged. The rising moisture molecules, now
missing electrons, become positively charged and gather at the top of the cloud. This creates a charge separation, which has
an electric field that is negative at the bottom and positive at the top. As the collisions continue, the electric field builds so
strong that it gives the planet's surface a positive charge. When these charges become powerful enough, the cloud's
electricity is discharged toward the Earth's surface, which results in lightning.
While a single bolt of lightning carries a relatively large amount of energy (approximately 5 billion joulesor about the
energy stored in 145 liters of petrol), this energy is concentrated in a small location and is passed during an extremely short
period of time (milliseconds); therefore, extremely high electrical power is involved. It has been proposed that the energy
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