Could I use this giant magnet at Los Alamos lab? "The magnet, which has achieved 87.8 tesla and is expected to reach 100 tesla in time, is the most powerful of its kind in the world, Lacerda said.
According to the laboratory, a generator which came from an abandoned nuclear power project in Tennessee supplies 1.4 billion watts of power and is itself the largest magnetic power source, with enough power to supply all of New Mexico for a couple of minutes"
2. September 2010 at 6:07 am
To answer your question, it’s not the capacity of the machine that is the limiting factor, its the material it is built from. No physical material can handle the heat generated by the lighting bolt which is hotter than the sun.
2. September 2010 at 6:07 am
Carefully! A lightning bolt is perhaps 25 miles long, as thin as a pencil, lasting about a second and charged with maybe 600,000 volts. Try not to touch it or you might find yourself in storage too.
2. September 2010 at 6:07 am
With a thunder nut.
2. September 2010 at 6:07 am
Hi. The actual energy value contained in lightning is low. No more then a few dollars. Better to capture the wind energy used to produce the lightning.
2. September 2010 at 6:07 am
All you have to do is predct when and where the bolt hits…then you hav4 it licked.
2. September 2010 at 6:07 am
if I understand right parallel plates are used to hold energy, not magnets…..
running a current through metals can cause magnitism though…..
2. September 2010 at 6:07 am
No,
to store a lightening bolt you have to use a giant capacitor.
So far even with tons of money no one has built
one that could survive the awesome power in a lightening bolt.