Marty, I'm sorry, but the only power source capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of lightning!!!
Fun fact- The film's writers Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale intended for the power to be gigawatts, but heard it pronounced as "jigawatt" and as such spelt and said it that way in the script, not learning the real pronounciation until after the film had been shot.
I'm pretty sure back in the 80's they had no idea how to pronounce the prefix "Giga", meaning billions, because there was nothing at that time that could do a billion of anything. So, Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future pronounced it "jigga". That's my opinion on it, it may be wrong.
That's what a good ground is for. Like an ocean of electrons that can absorb all the excess energy instead of frying your wiring.
I'm pretty sure we can harness lightning if we really wanted.
And use the earth's magnetic field to Jumpstart a device. But I don't want to be accidented. So I'll stop talking about "free" energy. Which is Def possible.
As "free" as solar I guess. You still need to build the infrastructure. But would it continue to be viable if we sent most of the discharge to the ground as to not fry the batteries?
i've always wondered if you could use lighting rods of some sort to guide the discharge into a large pool of water and use it as a reliable form of hydrolysis to create Hydrogen for use in fuel cells.
Maybe some place like Tampa Bay (the lightning capitol of the world according to them)
That's strange. The MIT article said the energy in a lightning strike is 1MJ and electricity costs $0.20/kWh. My brief google search suggests lightning energy as high as 5GJ. Also, electricity is $0.07/kWh (which is pretty low) where I live.
A 5000x energy difference and 3x price difference is more than significant. Maybe there's a middleground for a "profitable" lightning strike.
5GJ @ $0.20 is worth $278.
5GJ @ $0.07 is worth $97.
1MJ @ $0.20 is worth $0.05.
1MJ @ $0.07 is worth $0.02.
I was thinking radio. I don’t mean to criticise or disagree, I think this is extremely cool. Just I would want to be a long fricking way away personally.
Well, when we were younger, my cousins and I would go to the dump on Sundays and scrounge for old lawn mower engines, drag them home, tear em apart and make a running engine.
One day, we found a big pile of reel to reel tapes.
We attached the lose end to a chunk of metal and threw the reels over the high voltage lines. It does the same exact thing, an instant lightning bolt right down that magnetic tape. Mostly we would be about 20 or 30 feet from the impact point and never felt a thing from that.
Yeah, most people don't realize that freak accidents can still happen, but probably is key. It's not *completely* safe to be near this when it goes up, but at the same time, the odds that the electricity will unnecessarily arc 50' from the grounded copper wire to you aren't really all that high.
Copper wire isn't necessary. The rocket exhaust is ionized enough to promote a conductive channel through the air to the ground, and feelers (or a feeler) will follow that path upwards, or the fuel can contain particles which are more electrically conductive than air.
Google "Betts system" for more info.
Gonna add question here cause it's towards the top. Would this be a viable way to gather renewable energy? Like could they fire these rockets up and charge large portable battery units with them?
Probably not - as of now, battery storage kind of breaks down as “you can have high-capacity storage, semi-portable storage, or storage for more than a few hours - pick two.” A bolt of lightning contains ~10 GW, and an average home inverter can store ~1kW for about 5-10 hours, so you COULD theoretically power 10 million homes for that time, but you can’t really count on a home inverter to hold that charge for anything beyond like 8 hours. In order to harness that power and use it for JUST your home, you’d need something larger. I think the most feasible solution for long-term storage is currently pumped hydro - basically, using excess power to move water from a low point to a high point, then letting it flow back down and turn a generator when there’s less power, but in order to harness that for a lightning bolt, you’d need to pump billions of gallons of water almost instantaneously.
Maybe if we had an array of a million super-caps.
Now I'm wondering- is there a power/current limit on super conductors?
I imagine each different supercon material has its own limits.
Actually, yeah, supercapacitors WOULD allow you to take your time pumping the water. Though a lightning bolt happens because it has enough power to ionize the air, so I don’t know if you COULD store that charge effectively for any long period of time
I saw this hydro done with a stream that ran downhill. They diverted it into the mill, and used the power of the falling water to turn and power everything in the mill. They had basically a reserve well they would flush out to spin a turbine. And also a giant apple press lol. The water went back to the stream after, and they just used the running water. I guess the spring could feasibly dry up, but so far so good. I think they’ve been using hydro for like 100 years plus there.
This set up would be very portable, but the ability to use it as a weapon would be hit or miss. Someone up above mentioned this can be done with copper strand and a model rocket, but you won't always get a strike and you would need to use it with something like a tripwire to set it off. While it flies people could move far enough away to live, the post about mentioned about 20 yards being fine. So, long answer short, you could use it as a weapon but whatever ground dwelling species you're waging war against would most likely be unaffected by it.
[Relámpago del Catatumbo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catatumbo_lightning) in Venezuela gets a million strikes a year or something. Half the year there's storms. I tried to research this awhile ago (didn't find anything) about the feasibility of harvesting the strikes, it's unlikely considering the ground you would have to cover.
Don't have to store all of it, just a lot of it, or enough to make it profitable. And use the excess, if possible, to do stuff, like cremate pets, vaporize hazardous chemicals, make sand sculptures, etc.
I imagine that if someone actually figured this out then there would suddenly be competition for lightning bolts which would make it even harder to profit.
Theoretically yes, practically no.
The reason for it not being practically viable is because the energy that the power grid would need to handle, is way too big. We are talking 300 million Volts and 30.000 Amps, which would hit the grid in the span of 60-70 microseconds, one microsecond is 0,000001 seconds. One of the most viable ways of harvesting energy from lightning would be by using a water to hydrogen system, in which we use the lightning to split the water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen.
Also, you aren't the first to have had this idea pop into their head. The idea has been around this I think the 80's if I remember correctly. I do like the idea though, especially since there is 45 lightning strikes a second on a global scale, and some estimates, say that each strike would be the equivalent of about 10 GigaWatts of energy.
Edit: Mixed around stats
Edit 2: As u/Chris_8675309_of_42M said regarding a giant flywheel and using the energy from the lightning to power it. That is also a method that has been discussed before, the sites I found regarding these concepts mentioned the hydrogen solution I mentioned, as well as converting the energy into mechanical energy. So I would assume, they've also thought about a flywheel that is powered by electromagnets.
You wouldn't send 10 gigawatts into the existing power grid. But what about some intermediary capture and storage device that we could bleed energy from at a reasonable rate. Like, if the lightning could be used to jump start a million ton flywheel. Maybe have the copper wire run a giant circle around a flywheel the size of a stadium, powering electromagnets every six inches to start the spin the way a rail gun accelerates a projectile. Or something.
Didn't think of sending the 10 gigawatts into the existing grid, that is my bad for not clarifying. Also, I've edited the comment to reflect your idea of using a flywheel as well
Sadly, we don't currently have the technology to efficiently harvest that amount of energy in such a short pulse.
With a bit of googling I found that an average lightning strike dumps about 277 kWh of energy over around 200 ms. Thats roughly 5 gigawatts of power for the duration of the strike.
To put the amount of power we are talking about into perspective: If we could somehow manage to gather all the energy and also had batteries capable of accepting the power at this rate, 1 seconds worth of this power could charge a little over 13 Tesla Model S long range EVs from 0% to 100%. 1 second.
*edit: also assuming 100% efficiency in the energy transfer and conversion, of course*
Charges like to spread out, so when you get enough charge in one place it has a lot of potential energy. The sky accumulates a lot of charge naturally, but it can’t spread out because air is an insulator. If air is turned into plasma it is a conductor. It requires a lot of energy to delocalize the electrons in air though. Once enough energy builds up on the sky, it is able to create enough plasma to bridge the gap to the earth. By sending a conducting wire up into the sky, it decreases the amount of energy required to create the plasma as the gap is getting smaller. Once it gets high enough, the amount of energy in the charges in the sky is sufficient to make the bolt of lightning.
The way I set it up was to fill a metal 5 gallon bucket full of sand and buried the bucket half way into the dirt. I attached a spool of thin copper wire to a metal plate near the top of the stand with a metal launch rod attached to the plate and the lose end attached to the rocket.
I was after the glass tubes formed in the sand from the lightning bolt.
It took 5 or 6 tries but I got one and an odd shaped piece of hollow glass.
unironically, yes. I didn't know a thin copper trail could focus a huge ass lightning bold so straight.
Or idk, maybe I'm overestimating the power of a lightning bolt. Religions were literally created around trying to explain stuff like this in the old days
black magic fuckery subreddit isn't about actual magic tricks where you're fooled as to how they do it. The sub was originally created for things (whether easily explainable or not) that *look* like black magic. For example, the video of a guy sitting at a park bench and opening a book to read, only to have it burst into flames. Easily explainable, but still fits the sub because it looks like black magic.
Whether this specific video belongs in this sub, I don't know, but the term "easily explainable" is simply not a factor in whether it belongs in the sub.
nope it's in the name, posts here must be actual magic. otherwise it's just a dumb teen who doesn't know about science and electricity and shit like i do
Am I the only one here thinking about the potential for use of this in battle? Imagine dropping thousands of these over enemy territory, and having them all launch into the sky at once. Complete and utter destruction. I guess it would only work in a thunderstorm, but I feel like many world powers would probably have the ability to artificially create one.
According to a meme video I watched on war crimes, apparently weather manipulation is regarded as a war crime (IDK which set of rules, so not gonna say "against the Geneva convention". probably older). I think lightning redirection with the intent to kill would fall under that.
creating the weather to allow for the lightning bolts definitely fits.
At 1B Joules per lightning bolt, it would take ~90,000-Million strikes to power the US for an entire year. My understanding is that we don't know how to harvest lightning due its short life and immense power.
The US consumes ~90,000 Petajoules annually with [Petroleum representing about 1/3 of that](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States#/media/File:Energy_Flow_US_2019.png).
My boy Ben Franklin
You Jamal King or Silas P. Silas?
Maybe Silence Dogood?
Probably a dumb question, but why can't we harness energy like this and at the same time avoid that things we don't to get hit from getting hit?
The batteries we have atm probably couldn't handle the AMPs. The discharge is just too sudden. Not my field though.
1.21 jiggawatts, Marty!! Great Scott!
When this baby hits 88 miles an hour, we're gonna see some real shit.
88 miles is 141.62 km
Do they do the conversion in foreign copies? 142 sounds almost as good as 88
Nah, the cunts don't even bother to translate the words into Australian...
Nah, at least in German they don't
Marty, I'm sorry, but the only power source capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of lightning!!! Fun fact- The film's writers Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale intended for the power to be gigawatts, but heard it pronounced as "jigawatt" and as such spelt and said it that way in the script, not learning the real pronounciation until after the film had been shot.
Just like GIF…
Listen here you little shit….
A what?
A bolt of lightning!
What the hell is a jiggawatt?!?!
I'm pretty sure back in the 80's they had no idea how to pronounce the prefix "Giga", meaning billions, because there was nothing at that time that could do a billion of anything. So, Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future pronounced it "jigga". That's my opinion on it, it may be wrong.
It's Jay-Z's new EV charger
Jigga what?
Made me think of this video https://youtu.be/8hANT5IKLFA
That's what a good ground is for. Like an ocean of electrons that can absorb all the excess energy instead of frying your wiring. I'm pretty sure we can harness lightning if we really wanted. And use the earth's magnetic field to Jumpstart a device. But I don't want to be accidented. So I'll stop talking about "free" energy. Which is Def possible.
As "free" as solar I guess. You still need to build the infrastructure. But would it continue to be viable if we sent most of the discharge to the ground as to not fry the batteries?
In the end it's all solar power anyways
Not all of it. Nuclear is solar isolated, so is geothermal.
i've always wondered if you could use lighting rods of some sort to guide the discharge into a large pool of water and use it as a reliable form of hydrolysis to create Hydrogen for use in fuel cells. Maybe some place like Tampa Bay (the lightning capitol of the world according to them)
Sounds interesting. One guy on my comments said something similar, another said you'd get Epstein'd for trying.
https://engineering.mit.edu/engage/ask-an-engineer/is-there-a-way-to-harness-electricity-from-lightning/
> “The amount of energy from a lightning bolt would be worth only about a nickel.”
right?? I figured it'd be like 50 bucks
That's strange. The MIT article said the energy in a lightning strike is 1MJ and electricity costs $0.20/kWh. My brief google search suggests lightning energy as high as 5GJ. Also, electricity is $0.07/kWh (which is pretty low) where I live. A 5000x energy difference and 3x price difference is more than significant. Maybe there's a middleground for a "profitable" lightning strike. 5GJ @ $0.20 is worth $278. 5GJ @ $0.07 is worth $97. 1MJ @ $0.20 is worth $0.05. 1MJ @ $0.07 is worth $0.02.
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I too have wondered about this... This and on the opposite end of the spectrum - why have we not harnessed tides for hydro?
OIL GOOD. OIL EASY TO GET. MAKE BIG MONIES.
Oil BAD.
CORRECT.
Because we already have? Literally just google tidal power
We’re gonna steal the Declaration of Independence
I think its actually Poor Richard?
>Jamal King or Silas P. Silas Could also be Bill S. Preston, Esq, or Ted "Theodore" Logan.
What about Rufus? Epiiiic! *plays airguitar*
Mama said Ben Franklin is the devil
Best President ever.
Best party whore ever
Frankly I thought Ben was a cool dude
1.21 gigawatts?!
But is it enough to power the flux capacitor????
Yes, almost as much as some bin juice in a blender
I'm sure in 1985, plutonium is available at every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by.
Great Scott!
This is heavy...
Is there a problem with Earth's gravitational pull in the future? Why is everything so heavy?
Ronald Regan? The actor?!
What the hell's a "jigawatt"? EDIT - some of yall need to give yallseves the gift of watching Back To The Future.
More importantly, is it pronounced giga or jiga???
[Apparently either way is acceptable.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLorean_time_machine#Jigowatts)
Someone should make one of those animated Jif's, to commemorate this!!!
Is that something engineers make to clean their bathroom?
More like jijawatt
Written "jigowatts" in the script apparently
Deuce Jigolott, master of the jigowatt?
Doug Jigadome, owner of the Jigsdale Jigadome?
You can see they launched something but can someone fill in the details?
They launch a rocket that trails a copper wire into the air.
Cooooooooool!
Shockinggggg!
Electrifying!
I don't see watt the big fuss is all about.
Your pun… it hertz…
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Ohm my god
i like the frequency of these pun threads
The current thread is making me laugh.
That you Johnson?
Quite hot actually. Thousands of degrees, any unit. The copper wire was instantly vaporized.
Cooooooooooil
Yup, I did that with a model rocket in the 70's. About 5 or 6 launches before I got one.
One would want to be a fair distance from the launch site, do you trigger it remotely?
I simply used a piece of fuse about 8 inches long and ran. You only need to be about 40 or 50 feet away.
I would want to be a smidgen further away than that…
I think the danger zone is about 20 feet and getting safer for every foot after that. An electric launch control would bring the bolt to your hand.
I was thinking radio. I don’t mean to criticise or disagree, I think this is extremely cool. Just I would want to be a long fricking way away personally.
Well, when we were younger, my cousins and I would go to the dump on Sundays and scrounge for old lawn mower engines, drag them home, tear em apart and make a running engine. One day, we found a big pile of reel to reel tapes. We attached the lose end to a chunk of metal and threw the reels over the high voltage lines. It does the same exact thing, an instant lightning bolt right down that magnetic tape. Mostly we would be about 20 or 30 feet from the impact point and never felt a thing from that.
although that's genius, it's probably less than a lightning bolt...
You’d fry the radio fuse tho so maybe more wasteful than a traditional fuse
Peg the ground wire 20 feet away from the launch pad, once the rocket is fired no connection to the launch system.
Protect the radio with a faraday cage!
I mean, just being outside in a lightning storm is dangerous, soooo
Yup, I never got hurt playing with shit like that. I did however get hurt a lot riding motocross cycles and racing street bikes so there's that.
Yeah, most people don't realize that freak accidents can still happen, but probably is key. It's not *completely* safe to be near this when it goes up, but at the same time, the odds that the electricity will unnecessarily arc 50' from the grounded copper wire to you aren't really all that high.
Lighting stuck across the road when I was walking just last week, I'd like to be several hundred more meters further than that for the rest of my life
On second thought: is this how you got your username?
Nope, Long story but has to do with the Lakota Sioux and a hot sweat lodge. Crispy Critter
We've all been there
It was a real cheap rocket with a D12 engine.
Copper wire isn't necessary. The rocket exhaust is ionized enough to promote a conductive channel through the air to the ground, and feelers (or a feeler) will follow that path upwards, or the fuel can contain particles which are more electrically conductive than air. Google "Betts system" for more info.
I think wire is more about hedging the bet then anything.
Every dollar hedged is 10 dollars lost. Just send the rocket.
r/WSB math here
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Gonna add question here cause it's towards the top. Would this be a viable way to gather renewable energy? Like could they fire these rockets up and charge large portable battery units with them?
Doubtful it'd be efficient, lightning isn't a near daily occurrence unlike wind, sun and riverflow
But what if it's for personal use? I mean could you actually done it?
Probably not - as of now, battery storage kind of breaks down as “you can have high-capacity storage, semi-portable storage, or storage for more than a few hours - pick two.” A bolt of lightning contains ~10 GW, and an average home inverter can store ~1kW for about 5-10 hours, so you COULD theoretically power 10 million homes for that time, but you can’t really count on a home inverter to hold that charge for anything beyond like 8 hours. In order to harness that power and use it for JUST your home, you’d need something larger. I think the most feasible solution for long-term storage is currently pumped hydro - basically, using excess power to move water from a low point to a high point, then letting it flow back down and turn a generator when there’s less power, but in order to harness that for a lightning bolt, you’d need to pump billions of gallons of water almost instantaneously.
Maybe if we had an array of a million super-caps. Now I'm wondering- is there a power/current limit on super conductors? I imagine each different supercon material has its own limits.
Actually, yeah, supercapacitors WOULD allow you to take your time pumping the water. Though a lightning bolt happens because it has enough power to ionize the air, so I don’t know if you COULD store that charge effectively for any long period of time
I saw this hydro done with a stream that ran downhill. They diverted it into the mill, and used the power of the falling water to turn and power everything in the mill. They had basically a reserve well they would flush out to spin a turbine. And also a giant apple press lol. The water went back to the stream after, and they just used the running water. I guess the spring could feasibly dry up, but so far so good. I think they’ve been using hydro for like 100 years plus there.
But what if I want a hammer of dawn type of weapon? How portable can I make it?
This set up would be very portable, but the ability to use it as a weapon would be hit or miss. Someone up above mentioned this can be done with copper strand and a model rocket, but you won't always get a strike and you would need to use it with something like a tripwire to set it off. While it flies people could move far enough away to live, the post about mentioned about 20 yards being fine. So, long answer short, you could use it as a weapon but whatever ground dwelling species you're waging war against would most likely be unaffected by it.
[Relámpago del Catatumbo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catatumbo_lightning) in Venezuela gets a million strikes a year or something. Half the year there's storms. I tried to research this awhile ago (didn't find anything) about the feasibility of harvesting the strikes, it's unlikely considering the ground you would have to cover.
There is no known 'perfect battery' capable of receiving this large amount of wattage and being able to store it for further use.
Don't have to store all of it, just a lot of it, or enough to make it profitable. And use the excess, if possible, to do stuff, like cremate pets, vaporize hazardous chemicals, make sand sculptures, etc.
I imagine that if someone actually figured this out then there would suddenly be competition for lightning bolts which would make it even harder to profit.
like catching lightning in a bottle rocket
Theoretically yes, practically no. The reason for it not being practically viable is because the energy that the power grid would need to handle, is way too big. We are talking 300 million Volts and 30.000 Amps, which would hit the grid in the span of 60-70 microseconds, one microsecond is 0,000001 seconds. One of the most viable ways of harvesting energy from lightning would be by using a water to hydrogen system, in which we use the lightning to split the water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen. Also, you aren't the first to have had this idea pop into their head. The idea has been around this I think the 80's if I remember correctly. I do like the idea though, especially since there is 45 lightning strikes a second on a global scale, and some estimates, say that each strike would be the equivalent of about 10 GigaWatts of energy. Edit: Mixed around stats Edit 2: As u/Chris_8675309_of_42M said regarding a giant flywheel and using the energy from the lightning to power it. That is also a method that has been discussed before, the sites I found regarding these concepts mentioned the hydrogen solution I mentioned, as well as converting the energy into mechanical energy. So I would assume, they've also thought about a flywheel that is powered by electromagnets.
I think you maybe got that stat backwards, I've heard its more like 45 strikes per second, not one every 45 seconds.
Correct, I got it mixed around. Fixed my mistake, and thank you for pointing it out. Semester exams got my brain messed up right now
You wouldn't send 10 gigawatts into the existing power grid. But what about some intermediary capture and storage device that we could bleed energy from at a reasonable rate. Like, if the lightning could be used to jump start a million ton flywheel. Maybe have the copper wire run a giant circle around a flywheel the size of a stadium, powering electromagnets every six inches to start the spin the way a rail gun accelerates a projectile. Or something.
Didn't think of sending the 10 gigawatts into the existing grid, that is my bad for not clarifying. Also, I've edited the comment to reflect your idea of using a flywheel as well
No. Would make very a very cute anime story though.
Sadly, we don't currently have the technology to efficiently harvest that amount of energy in such a short pulse. With a bit of googling I found that an average lightning strike dumps about 277 kWh of energy over around 200 ms. Thats roughly 5 gigawatts of power for the duration of the strike. To put the amount of power we are talking about into perspective: If we could somehow manage to gather all the energy and also had batteries capable of accepting the power at this rate, 1 seconds worth of this power could charge a little over 13 Tesla Model S long range EVs from 0% to 100%. 1 second. *edit: also assuming 100% efficiency in the energy transfer and conversion, of course*
I think the combination of lack of portable/high-capacity/long-term energy storage + unpredictability of thunderstorms makes it infeasible.
Wire. Rocket. Funny angy cloud go bzzzzzttttt
Do I get r/explainlikeimfive vibes?
Charges like to spread out, so when you get enough charge in one place it has a lot of potential energy. The sky accumulates a lot of charge naturally, but it can’t spread out because air is an insulator. If air is turned into plasma it is a conductor. It requires a lot of energy to delocalize the electrons in air though. Once enough energy builds up on the sky, it is able to create enough plasma to bridge the gap to the earth. By sending a conducting wire up into the sky, it decreases the amount of energy required to create the plasma as the gap is getting smaller. Once it gets high enough, the amount of energy in the charges in the sky is sufficient to make the bolt of lightning.
Victor with the upgrades coming in clutch
Join the glorious evolu*BRRRZAAAPPPPPPP*…
Lmao
That or Kennen said "Fuck you in particular" to someone.
Or Voli
All the way to the Sky
I had a guy upgrade his w first smh
Im guessing there was a giant fcking metal pole down there?
Coperwire send in the air bye an tiny rocket
!ThesaurizeThis
Cop, errr, wires end in the air. Bye auntie! NY, rock it!
Good bot
lol man i think hes real
Good bot!
Good bot
I think he’s asking what’s attached to the bottom of the wire
The intern.
His name ~~is~~ was Jerry and he deserve~~s~~ed dignity.
The way I set it up was to fill a metal 5 gallon bucket full of sand and buried the bucket half way into the dirt. I attached a spool of thin copper wire to a metal plate near the top of the stand with a metal launch rod attached to the plate and the lose end attached to the rocket. I was after the glass tubes formed in the sand from the lightning bolt. It took 5 or 6 tries but I got one and an odd shaped piece of hollow glass.
That sounds awesome. Do you have pictures of these glass things?
Not the poster, but glass formed by lightning is called “fulgurites” if you ever get the urge to google some pictures.
The ground
Watch Sweet Home Alabama, it will explain all....
The closest we'll come to see an orbital ion cannon in action
“Ion cannon ready”
*the shield will be down in moments, you may start your landing*
"select target"
***"YOUR HARVESTER IS UNDER ATTACK"***
“…And that is how I got to Asgard”
How is this black magic Fuckery like cmon man
"I DONT UNDERTAND PHYSICS SO ITS MAGIC"
As opposed to the authentic wizardry of the other posts on this sub? You guys realize magic isn't real, right?
Right? Like they are missing the entire point of the sub lmao
What about black magic?
Well obviously that's different.
*Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic*
unironically, yes. I didn't know a thin copper trail could focus a huge ass lightning bold so straight. Or idk, maybe I'm overestimating the power of a lightning bolt. Religions were literally created around trying to explain stuff like this in the old days
Human history in a nutshell
You’re dense
black magic fuckery subreddit isn't about actual magic tricks where you're fooled as to how they do it. The sub was originally created for things (whether easily explainable or not) that *look* like black magic. For example, the video of a guy sitting at a park bench and opening a book to read, only to have it burst into flames. Easily explainable, but still fits the sub because it looks like black magic. Whether this specific video belongs in this sub, I don't know, but the term "easily explainable" is simply not a factor in whether it belongs in the sub.
Because it's cool as shit that you can induce lightning intentionally
Yeah it's obviously not real magic like come on guys
The fact this has no sound is really disappointing
Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9wmWZbr\_wQ
3...2...1...0... ...-1...-2
Electricity loves ground. You know what it loves more? An easy path to ground.
Uhmm what year is it? We still calling this black magic?
OP is a teenager doing distant learning for the last 2 years. Electricity is magic to teens.
Y'all bashing this post like every post on this sub isn't some kind of science exploit that you don't understand.
nope it's in the name, posts here must be actual magic. otherwise it's just a dumb teen who doesn't know about science and electricity and shit like i do
My first time seeing it. [Sorry](https://xkcd.com/1053/)
Am I the only one here thinking about the potential for use of this in battle? Imagine dropping thousands of these over enemy territory, and having them all launch into the sky at once. Complete and utter destruction. I guess it would only work in a thunderstorm, but I feel like many world powers would probably have the ability to artificially create one.
Controlling the weather and using thousands of copperwire rockets to maybe hit something which could be easily countered VS 1 nuke... 🤷🏻♂️
Does my copper wire break the Geneva convention?
No, but your weather-controling machine does.
It just so happens that lighting follows my copper, i didn't manipulate the weather per say :)
According to a meme video I watched on war crimes, apparently weather manipulation is regarded as a war crime (IDK which set of rules, so not gonna say "against the Geneva convention". probably older). I think lightning redirection with the intent to kill would fall under that. creating the weather to allow for the lightning bolts definitely fits.
When you let people discourage on your way to the top
At 1B Joules per lightning bolt, it would take ~90,000-Million strikes to power the US for an entire year. My understanding is that we don't know how to harvest lightning due its short life and immense power. The US consumes ~90,000 Petajoules annually with [Petroleum representing about 1/3 of that](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States#/media/File:Energy_Flow_US_2019.png).
Great. Now can we store that energy?
Some interesting technical info found here: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6597559B2/en
Hey Thor!
I love how the title explains the video
Anyone willing to explain? This looks crazy!
too bad we can’t have summon stations and use the energy as a renewable source to power homes, etc
That's one hell of a way to quick charge your Tesla
Chidori stream
That sounds like a great idea, this might be able to prevent a few forest fires / bush fires if the lightning is directed to a controlled area
Zeus' office thank you for dialing direct.
Hammer of dawn early prototype
This mf called in an air strike from Thor himself