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Quote by: Prometheus A watt is a rate of energy flow. It dosen't matte how many watts you have if it's only for a short time. True, the wattage of a lightening bolt is enormous, but since it only lasts for a tenth of a second, you really would not get that much energy out of it relatively speaking. |
You're right.
However, this doesn't mean that my scenario couldn't still work.
For example, if a 1.2 giga watt (that's 1200 kilo watts) lightning bolt strikes your grid 30 times (which I would say is more than possible in an average thundar storm) with an average duration of 1/10 seconds, that turns out to be 1 kilo watt hour worth of electricity.
That might not seem like much electricity. Ok, really it's not that much. But, you're not going to be using that electricity directly. You're using it to convert water into hydrogen and oxygen.
I'd be curious to find out how many kilograms of hydrogen and oxygen an average electrolysis machine can exchange for 1 kilowatt hour.