http://terahertzatheist.ca/2009/03/01/photonics-briefs-laser-lightning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=photonics-briefs-laser-lightning Science and compassion for a better world Wed, 06 Dec 2017 02:43:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.1 http://terahertzatheist.ca/2009/03/01/photonics-briefs-laser-lightning/comment-page-1/#comment-6458 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:59:02 +0000 http://terahertzatheist.ca/?p=1532#comment-6458 An interesting question. I think that there’s not a lot of current in the average lightning strike (I’m not sure about this), and this is definitely an extremely high powered laser system. I think even if you could recover the energy from the lightning (which comes in such a short period of time that it creates its own difficulties), that you’d still get less than the amount required to keep the laser running.

]]> http://terahertzatheist.ca/2009/03/01/photonics-briefs-laser-lightning/comment-page-1/#comment-6456 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:39:43 +0000 http://terahertzatheist.ca/?p=1532#comment-6456 How does the energy required to ionize the path compare to the energy recovered from the lightning? Can this be a net gain?

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