[ale] Off the Wall

[lee]

Ok..speaking of all this lightning and power consumption..I have something 
I've been wondering about. I think a great new power source would be if it 
were somehow possible to capture lightning and store this on "mondo sized" 
batteries for distribution under more a "controlled" enviroment. I'd imagine 
the capacitors would have to be of pretty good size as well, and a by-pass 
for any overflow that would almost certainly occur.

Am I even close to being onto something here,or should I let these paint 
fumes air a bit longer before working so long in the office :-)

Lee





> Let me reiterate what Steve is saying here from personal experience......
>
> Two years ago my family went to the beach for a week.  Upon returning home
> at midnight on Sunday night, I noticed that things just did not look right.
> Turn out we had been the victims on a direct lightning hit.  We were very
> fortunate the house was still standing.
>
> As it turns out, lightning struck a pine tree 30 ft from my front door. 
> The boly went down the tree, through the roots.  In the process, it blew a
> piece of root 3 feet long out of the ground, some 40 feet through the air
> onto the roof of my house.  The bolt continued under my driveway (leaving
> what looked like a mole trail of pushed up concrete), under my garage until
> it came up through the laundry room floor (solid concrete....it blew a 4
> inch diameter hole through a 6 inch thick floor) and cooked my (BRAND NEW)
> washing machine.
>
> From there it proceeded to randomly toast items in the house including the
> satellite receiver in the den (but not the TV), The TV in the bedroom (but
> not the satellite receiver), the garage door opener and it blew the phone
> off of the kitchen wall.  It did NOT touch a single one of my 6 PC's, all
> up, running and NON-SURGE PROTECTED.......
>
> My point?  Lightning is random.  It will fry what it wants to and leave the
> rest.  As long as you have 1.) BACKUPS and 2.) INSURANCE, you really can't
> do much else except 3.)PRAY......
>
> On Tuesday 18 December 2001 03:45 pm, sangell at nan.net wrote:
> > I have witnessed  a single strike in the past which hit a basketball goal
> > on a small building, went thru the wooden siding, hopped onto a 110
> > insulated electrical wire(yes thru the insulation) blew out 3 lightbulbs
> > and at the next bend in the cable, blew out the insulation, burnt through
> > the wire and hit a galvanized water pipe where it then was grounded and
> > stopped. Lightning is a powerful force. To expect to contain it is just
> > another example of man trying to control something that was not meant to
> > be controled. By the best protector you can find with regards to
> > insurance associated with it and then hope you never need to use it. BTW
> > chances are you will never need either......but you will sleep better
> > when a storm rolls thru.
> >
> > Just MHO!
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> >                     scottb at pixel-g
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> >                     12/18/2001           Subject:     [ale] Off the Wall
> >                     10:54 AM
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> > I am trying to protect my new tv and pc from lightning over the coax what
> > is
> > the best way othere then unpluging to prevent the strikes from coming
> > over the cable line
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