Seems to my ignorant eyes that we could always somehow split the power received into more manageable units, even if it has to be splitted a million times, 🤷♂️.
Seems to my ignorant eyes that we could always somehow split the power received into more manageable units, even if it has to be splitted a million times, 🤷♂️.
Cant predict it, cant store it, cant get it where it needs to be
If we could eliminate transmission costs (superconductivity) and make energy storage trivial then it would become viable. We’d just install lightning rods around the world and plug them into the grid. We’d get a lot of power, after all.
But those are two huge “ifs.”
So we are just a few miracles away from a less effective solution than solar, forgive me if i don’t think its worth the brain power.
Not that I think it’s practical or that it should be done, but I think it’s mildly interesting that Texas could be an answer to all three of those things.
Texas gets a ton of lightning, has a large battery company (Tesla), and probably needs the power the most.
skeld@lemmy.world did the math below. It’s a little impractical, particularly for Tesla to engineer.