Lightning-Harvesting
The incidence and occurrence of electric
energy naturally.
Electric
energy forms in the clouds due to cloud activity. It then follows the shortest path to the
earth by the available conductors. These
conductors could be a tree, a tall building or specially designed. This form of electricity is termed
lightning. A special lightning-attractor
attracts the lightning in the area to strike it and be conducted downwards.
Usually
lightning flows into the earth. Now
there is a lightning-bed which will be placed in the path of the lightning, so
that some amount of the lightning can be harvested as it travels to the
earth. It is very important to
"earth" wire these lightning-beds because if the lightning energy
exceeds the capacity of the bed, it should be safely let into the earth where
it is needed. Let us be very careful and
allow most of the lightning flow into the earth for the good of the earth.
The
lightning-beds are at least a kilometre long, each, and are filled with
volcanic glass covered with water. This
is a conductor of electricity.
From
the lightning-beds there are conductors, which conduct a small amount of
electricity from the lightning to an Electric-Unit, which converts it into
standardized voltage and current specifications. This electricity is then conducted via
long-distance-transmission-lines to places of utilisation and need.
The
Electric-Unit has the capability of accepting an input of unknown
electric-specifications (the raw lightning-electricity) and then converting it
to standardised electric-specifications.
All Electric-Units are safely "earthed" so that the
electricity flows safely into the ground.
Earthing is for the safety of the ground as well as the
Lightning-Harvester. The ground needs
the lightning and the Lightning-Harvester should be protected from the
abundant-bountiful nature of unhandle-able lightning.
A
single lightning-rod can be the harvester for 3 - 4 lightning-beds. The area in-between the lightning-beds can be
cultivated as a single-fruit-kind-of-orchard, with a beehive in the centre of
the orchard so that the bees pollinate the flowers of the orchard.
This
pattern can be repeated across the area that is lighting-prone.
Another
way of harvesting lighting is to have a lightning-attractor on a raft-rig in
the sea and a long connection-line to lightning-beds on the seashore.
Each
convertor has input of a particular range of voltage and current.
Based on the detector's findings, the
electrical-energy from a particular flash of lightning is channelled to the
appropriate input-handling convertor.
The convertor converts the raw electrical
energy to the standardised-specifications that that convertor is built to
output. There are many permutations and
combinations of input voltage, input current, output voltage and output current
specifications. Centralized convertors
can be built, where the electrical-energy harvested from the lightning-beds by
many of the conducting-rods can be plugged in.
Maybe like a 100 plug-in connections per convertor. For a kilometre-long lightning-bed, there
could be a conducting-rod every 10 metres, which makes it about a 100 per
kilometre (or 101).
So actually there is a centralised
switch. When a flash of lightning
strikes the lightning-attractor and flows into the lightning-bed, the detector
has a quick sample-test and determines the voltage-current specifications. Based on this pattern of voltage-current
specifications, one of the convertor specifications is recognised and the
electric-energy tapped by the conducting-rods flows through to the convertor
specification which the detector has recognised. This appropriate convertor then converts the
electric-energy from the plug-in lines to the standardised electricity it is
designed to output. This standardised
electricity is conducted away by long-distance transmission-lines to the
storage and utilisation facilities.
Regards,
Ann Abraham.
Plot No. 1240, 13th Main Road
Annanagar West,
Chennai - 600040,
Tamil Nadu,
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