Walter Russell : Nikola Tesla - Lightning Explained : Quantum Electrodynamics

[TngMutantNinjaTroll]

religious people explain it better: god did it!

[JustSomePerson888]

''When the ball returns, the strain gradually lessens until the ball again comes to rest in the childs hand. When that happens, the strain and tension have been voided.''

they've been absorbed into your hand and body. but yes, taking it separate from that, there it ends...but 'in-vivo' - it just gets absorbed by something else, and the energy is transfered. some things intensify what is absorbed, other things dissipate it (though it then dissipates - into those other things...).

[saintpine]

Lighting is a serious problem for power stations.

I have done various emergency interventions to repair damage on DCS (distributed control system) equipment due to lighting strikes.

In some case the damage was so vast that it could take a few weeks before I could get the system running again, because the spare parts where not sufficient to cover the needs and not everything is quickly available on the market.

[JustSomePerson888]

@saintpine - do you mean the pylons are frequently hit by lightning and it flows back into the controllers, and you can't really add in breakers etc cause those would interfere with the purpose of the power station? can't they isolate the high live load parts more? or maybe that just costs too much to rebuild it all.

[saintpine]

@JustSomePerson888

I really don't know where the lighting hits, I work on low power electronic equipment so it's not my duty to analyze problems on the high power side, I normally have about 10 cabinets on a 160MW power station, with about 150 electronic cards to control the boiler, BOP and services, I don’t do Turbine control, and normally I need only substitute about 10 cards.

I've had about 6 cases in the last 20 years, these can cause even €100.000 damage.

[bennyboiS117]

yes finaly something i can use to do my science hwk thanks : ]

[hipser]

So it's mostly this guy explaining what it's like to be in a fighter plane in a lightning storm.. not the point but fucking awesome...

and then the kids ask if lightning is where electricity comes from