Saturday, June 15, 2019

last night's storm...

This cell missed me by about 5 miles...but I ended up getting three tenths of an inch out of another cell that I just caught the edge of.  I like lighting...when it is far away.  This photo is pretty grainy because it is a still from some video I was shooting during the storm.  86,95,74,0,B
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11 comments:

  1. Sam FinnJune 15, 2019 at 4:27 PM

    Quite a photo. Once a photographer always a photographer.

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  2. remmijJune 15, 2019 at 6:15 PM

    Ben was probably good with it staying to the north… the thunder rolls
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  3. HachitaJune 15, 2019 at 7:09 PM

    Dramatic pic. Glad you got a bit more rain. Wonder if we'll ever collect lightning like rain and solar? Looks a lot of power. Ben seems like his imperturbable self.

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  4. John WellsJune 15, 2019 at 8:11 PM

    Unless you are trying to bring a monster to life - that is comprised of dead human parts...harvesting lightning is impractical.

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  5. HachitaJune 15, 2019 at 8:32 PM

    Good one. Worked well for Ben Franklin, not so much for Georg Wilhelm Richmann.

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  6. rjJune 15, 2019 at 8:56 PM

    I think it would be possible to harvest lightning since it creates huge ground gradients that could be tapped. The problem is you would need huge banks of power electronics to immediately invert it into 60 hz standard high voltage ready to go at thousands of locations. Plus you would need an almost simultaneous unloading of conventional generation or the new power would be wasted. And then you would be lucky to get a strike per year per location, if that. Meanwhile, conventional solar could be generating megawatts for a fraction of the investment.

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  7. Joseph QuigleyJune 15, 2019 at 9:42 PM

    Has that kinda violent storm ever affected your solar setup.

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  8. Dizzy-DickJune 15, 2019 at 10:47 PM

    I like your picture. Good job.

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  9. bigfootJune 16, 2019 at 5:55 AM

    Hope that lightning bolt wasn't tagging our tin shack. Looks like that direction.

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  10. John WellsJune 16, 2019 at 7:26 AM

    Usually I unplug everything when a storm is close by. Only been affected by lightning once. https://thefieldlab.blogspot.com/2016/08/zapped.html

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  11. Margery BilldJune 16, 2019 at 8:59 AM

    Lightening took out a light socket in my kitchen several years ago. In years past I drove through some magnificent lightening storms here in the TX Hill Country.

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