As EB and I were leaving church yesterday, there was a storm parked over Chicago. It was putting on a tremendous lightning show and EB wanted to know what happened when lightning hit a building in Chicago. She knew the spires on the tall building attracted the strikes, but didn't know they conveyed the charge through a cable into the ground. EB thought that was wasteful. I told her the charge was really strong, too strong to manage and maybe when she got older she could do something about it. Maybe she could study electrical engineering and invent a solution.
She said, "daddy, I want to study all kinds of engineering and invent things." Also, she had an idea about how to manage the lightning charge. "What I would do, is keep dividing it until it was weak enough that people could use it." When we got home, she went straight to work:
That's a tall building in Chicago, with a ground line that's divided until individual lines run to the "power plant." From there, they can light up the bulb (pictured).
I loved the idea, but told her she had another hurdle: storage. Lightning packed a lot of power: too much to use at one time. EB was pretty sure she could design an appropriate battery system. I have no doubt she will.
She said, "daddy, I want to study all kinds of engineering and invent things." Also, she had an idea about how to manage the lightning charge. "What I would do, is keep dividing it until it was weak enough that people could use it." When we got home, she went straight to work:
That's a tall building in Chicago, with a ground line that's divided until individual lines run to the "power plant." From there, they can light up the bulb (pictured).
I loved the idea, but told her she had another hurdle: storage. Lightning packed a lot of power: too much to use at one time. EB was pretty sure she could design an appropriate battery system. I have no doubt she will.
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If anyone can do it, she can!
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