October 3, 2006: Photographer catches lightning bolt hitting neighbor's house

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Sure there is, it just runs the entire year in about 1 second, for vastly different results!:p

True, but if we had a way to store that power. it would eliminate the need for oil, natural gas, coal, Nukes, windmills and
Gerbil treadmills.
Lightning could easily power the whole country with clean renewable power.
Of course it wouldn't be cheap because the electric company has you by the short hairs.... but hey, you can't have it all.

[9th Engineer]

do we need an explanation of volts vs amps and what they refer too here?