Saw some lightning today and ran the numbers — a bolt of lightning only has about $30 worth of electricity in it. I was thinking that an aluminum smelting plant might be an effective place to put lightning strikes to use, but no.
Surprisingly easy to induce lightning in the atmosphere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34NpyA2OuaE … But I guess it's not nearly cost-effective!
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Hard to get a rocket like that for les than $30
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Yeah. A friend told me (long ago, so my memory may be wrong) of using balloons and a conducting trailing wire to do something like this in the New Mexico desert, getting strikes over and over in the same spot. I guess that'd be a lot cheaper(?) [cont]
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Call it a loss leader and do it anyway
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R&D writeoff, AKA the mad science budget!
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