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data-sc-min-track-height="250" data-sc-max-track-height="600" data-sc-breakpoint="50em" data-sc-load-immediate="3" data-sc-content-positions="[1, 1050, 1250, 1550, 1950, 2350, 2750, 3150]" data-bind-scroll-on-start="true"><p id="mntl-sc-block_1-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Lightning is the discharge of electricity caused by an imbalance between the positive and negative charges that build up in a thundercloud. Most lightning flashes occur between or within clouds, but about 40 million lightning strikes hit the ground in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which tracks lightning strike injuries and deaths.<span class="ql-inline-citation" data-cite="8"></span> </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_2-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block"></div> <p id="mntl-sc-block_3-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Is it possible to harness that energy to power entire communities? Here, we explore that question.<br/> </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_4-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block"></div> <span class="heading-toc" id="toc-amount-of-energy-in-lightning"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_5-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block green-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading "> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> Amount of Energy in Lightning </span> </h2> <p id="mntl-sc-block_6-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Lightning produces 10 times more electricity than flows on high-tension wires. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_7-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block"></div> <p id="mntl-sc-block_8-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> It also produces heat energy hotter than the surface of the sun, and sound energy (thunder) that can travel 25 miles.<span class="ql-inline-citation" data-cite="9"></span> </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_9-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block"></div> <p id="mntl-sc-block_10-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> While only lasting a millisecond, a flash of lightning is thought produce up to 10 gigawatts (GW) of electricity, which would be a sixth of the capacity of all the rooftop solar panels in the U.S. in 2021.<span class="ql-inline-citation" data-cite="10"></span> Capturing that energy, however, is not an easy task. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_11-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block"></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block_12-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block green-sc-block-callout mntl-sc-block-callout mntl-block theme-generic" data-tracking-id="mntl-sc-block-callout" data-tracking-container="true"><h3 id="mntl-sc-block-callout-heading_1-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-callout-heading mntl-text-block">Did You Know?</h3> <div id="mntl-sc-block-callout-body_1-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-callout-body mntl-text-block"><p>A single bolt of lightning can contain up to a billion volts and about 100,000 or more amps of electricity.<span class="ql-inline-citation" data-cite="9"></span></p></div></div> <span class="heading-toc" id="toc-can-we-harvest-lightning-energy"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_13-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block green-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading "> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> Can We Harvest Lightning Energy? </span> </h2> <p id="mntl-sc-block_14-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Lightning carries or produces three forms of energy: electricity, heat, and sound. In recent years, scientists have explored the questions: </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_15-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block"></div> <ul id="mntl-sc-block_16-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> <li>What if we could store that electricity to charge all the electric vehicles soon to dominate our roads?</li><li> Or capture its intense heat to produce enough steam to run a turbine? </li><li>Or convert enough of the sound to generate the electricity needed to produce carbon-free hydrogen fuel?</li> </ul> <div id="mntl-sc-block_17-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block"></div> <h3 id="mntl-sc-block_18-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block green-sc-block-subheading mntl-sc-block-subheading"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-subheading__text"> Capturing Electricity </span> </h3> <p id="mntl-sc-block_19-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Various attempts have been made using high-voltage switching circuits and magnetic capacitors to capture and store lightning energy. Several patents both pending and active describe systems that could turn lightning into electricity. Still, though, none of these systems are being used—at least widely. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_20-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block"></div> <p id="mntl-sc-block_21-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> As one study puts it, “this is not a complex scientific undertaking, like fusion reactors or nuclear facilities.”<span class="ql-inline-citation" data-cite="3"></span> Indeed, Benjamin Franklin got us halfway there with the invention of lightning rods, which attract and capture lightning and direct it into the ground. The other half—taming it—is the hard part.<br/> </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_22-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block"></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block_23-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block green-sc-block-callout mntl-sc-block-callout mntl-block theme-generic" data-tracking-id="mntl-sc-block-callout" data-tracking-container="true"><div id="mntl-sc-block-callout-body_2-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-callout-body mntl-text-block"><p>Earth acts as an electrical ground because it's large enough to absorb an unlimited amount of electrical current with minimal effect.</p></div></div> <p id="mntl-sc-block_24-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> The challenge comes in stepping down the energy carried in a lightning bolt to safe levels. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_25-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block"></div> <p id="mntl-sc-block_26-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> The electricity grid already works this way: High-tension transmission lines coming from power plants carry electricity at 345,000 volts, but through multiple substations, the electricity is stepped down to regional levels and then to neighborhood levels, until power lines into residences carry a mere 120 volts. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_27-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block"></div> <p id="mntl-sc-block_28-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Yet stepping a lightning bolt down from millions of—up to a billion—volts to a safer level is a more monumental task, one yet to be achieved. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_29-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block"></div> <h3 id="mntl-sc-block_30-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block green-sc-block-subheading mntl-sc-block-subheading"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-subheading__text"> Harvesting Heat </span> </h3> <p id="mntl-sc-block_31-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the energy from lightning heats the air briefly to around 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit—hotter than the surface of the sun.<span class="ql-inline-citation" data-cite="9"></span> </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_32-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block"></div> <p id="mntl-sc-block_33-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Recent advances in capturing heat and turning it into electricity may suggest a way to harvest lightning's mega-heat. While magnets (central to most electricity generation) lose their magnetic force when they are heated, recent research has identified that tiny particles called paramagnons act as semiconductors, capable of turning heat into electricity.<span class="ql-inline-citation" data-cite="4"></span> </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_34-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block"></div> <p id="mntl-sc-block_35-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Getting from that basic research to a workable product may happen first with more down-to-earth sources of heat, such as the waste heat from manufacturing processes or vehicles. Applying it to lightning is a less urgent task. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_36-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block"></div> <h3 id="mntl-sc-block_37-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block green-sc-block-subheading mntl-sc-block-subheading"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-subheading__text"> Converting Sound </span> </h3> <p id="mntl-sc-block_38-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Anyone who owns a phone knows it's possible to convert electricity into sound waves. The reverse is possible as well, and experiments are underway across the world in harvesting sound for electricity.<span class="ql-inline-citation" data-cite="5"></span> </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_39-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block"></div> <p id="mntl-sc-block_40-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> The extreme heat produced by lightning causes the air around it to explode, producing the sound waves we call thunder. Within a few hundred feet of its source, thunder can produce around 120 decibels.<span class="ql-inline-citation" data-cite="12"></span> Existing sources of sound energy from traffic and urban noise pollution, however, are all-too-reliable nuisances to merit experiments with harvesting thunder. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_41-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block"></div> <span class="heading-toc" id="toc-outlook-on-harvesting-electricity"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_42-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block green-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading "> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> Outlook on Harvesting Electricity </span> </h2> <p id="mntl-sc-block_43-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> With electricity, supply must always meet demand—otherwise, the system breaks down and blackouts occur. One of the challenges of harvesting lightning's energy, as with other renewables, is its intermittency. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_44-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block"></div> <p id="mntl-sc-block_45-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> The intermittency of lightning is far less predictable both in time and location than wind or solar energy. Storing lightning's electricity is the most difficult part, not only because the energy storage industry is still in its infancy, but because the storage devices themselves will need to withstand a massive single bolt of electricity without damaging the device. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_46-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block"></div> <p id="mntl-sc-block_47-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Political will (and thus research dollars) is focused on the more-established technologies of renewable energy: water, wind, and solar. For the time being, harvesting lightning will remain the pursuit of individual inventors with dreams of being the next Benjamin Franklin. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_48-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block"></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block_49-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block green-sc-block-faq mntl-sc-block-faq mntl-block theme-expanded"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-frequently-asked-questions-85740ea1-f709-4b82-a933-ff94b72445a3"></span> <div id="mntl-sc-block-faq__title_1-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-faq__title mntl-text-block">Frequently Asked Questions</div> <ul id="mntl-sc-block-faq__content_1-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-faq__content mntl-accordion "> <li class="accordion__item js-accordion-item is-active" data-ordinal="1"> <div tabindex="-1" class="accordion__header js-accordion-trigger" id="mntl-accordion__item_1-0-section-0"> <span class="accordion__title">How many homes could a single lightning bolt power?</span> </div> <div class="accordion__body"> <div id="mntl-accordion__content_1-0" class="comp mntl-accordion__content"> <div class="faq-accordion__item-answer"> <p>If all 10 GW of its energy could be harvested, lightning could power 3.4 million homes for a year.<span class="ql-inline-citation" data-cite="7"></span><br/></p> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="accordion__item js-accordion-item is-active" data-ordinal="2"> <div tabindex="-1" class="accordion__header js-accordion-trigger" id="mntl-accordion__item_2-0-section-1"> <span class="accordion__title">How much lightning would we need to capture to power the entire U.S. electricity grid?</span> </div> <div class="accordion__body"> <div id="mntl-accordion__content_2-0" class="comp mntl-accordion__content"> <div class="faq-accordion__item-answer"> <p>Merely capturing the energy from 115 lightning strikes would supply all of the U.S.'s <a href="https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-in-the-us-generation-capacity-and-sales.php" data-component="link" 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