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Could We Harvest Power From Lightning?
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1.21 gigawatts worth, yeah.
jigawatts
now I want tornado turbines
Read Echopraxia! Genius monks have exactly that in the desert powering their facility.
Start with Blindsight first! (Only a 2 books altogether.)
Of course we could. However, a normal lightening bolt contains around 100 dollar's worth of electricity. The cost of the equipment to capture and convert that power would be 100's of thousands of dollars. Combined with the uncertainty of the supply, it'd be a heck of a vanity project.
Been wondering about that.
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