[TheForge] now Japanese nuke plants OT: POL:

[Bruce Freeman]

Put up a lightning rod (free & away from structures) and measure the
current that passes down to the ground when stormy weather approaches.
 Figure out how to use that electrical current and you might be onto
something.

For those who've been misled by our wonderful education system --
lightning rods do not attract lightning.  When properly constructed
and grounded, a lightning rod will never be struck by lightning.
That's the point.  The sharp point becomes a high-density charge (at
ground potential, i.e., zero volt) sticking up into a diffuse static
charge that is the air in a storm.  The high density 0V charge
attracts the diffuse opposite charges and draws them out of the air,
producing current in the grounding wire.  There is SO much
misinformation about this out there  that some people simply don't
believe me when I tell them this.  But this is the truth, and it's
been known since Benjamin Franklin's day.

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Rowland Smuck <rsmuck at q.com> wrote:
> I am in favor of using any energy source that is wasted if we don't use
> it, my favorite is ocean wave technology, steam from deep wells,
> lightning etc, any ideas???
> Rowland
> On 3/18/2011 8:08 AM, Andrew Vida wrote:
>>
>> James Binnion wrote:
>>> On Mar 17, 2011, at 11:47 AM, peter fels wrote:
>>>
>>>> That's changing, both in the cost and efficiency of solar cells
>>>> etc,
>>> Alternative energy sources aren't even close by orders of magnitude
>>> yet, yes they are getting better but they still cannot compete in
>>> scale or cost with petro or nuke.
>> A truth the nuts and twigs crowd flatly refuse to acknowledge.  If they
>> want to return to the stone age, I support them fully so long as they
>> leave the rest of us to live as we see fit.  Unfortunately, the
>> watermelon marxists seem ill-contented to  leave us alone.
>>>> Also there is a vast amount of natural gas and methane hydrate if
>>>> we can somehow sequester the CO2.
>>> This is probably easier than making solar or wind cary the load, but
>>> still a huge engineering task.
>>       And it is not "green", so what's the point - at least until the oil
>> spigots run dead-dry?
>>> James Binnion jbin at well.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
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