Guided lightning is advancing lightning research.

The first person who conducted lightning to the wanted point was Benjamin Franklin in 1752. In a classic lightning-capturing test Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) in 1752 used a kite, that he put in the air during a thunderstorm. That kite made the rising point in the potential line and guided lightning to the ground. That test almost costs his life because in his lifetime nobody knew how high voltage the lightning has.

Today balloons are used to conduct lightning to wanted points. They used balloons conducted to wires. That transfers lightning to the wanted point like sensors that measure the electric power.

Today we know that lightning always hits the point that is closest to the cloud. And that's why we should not swim or be under alone trees during thunderstorms.

Lightning causes problems with electronics. The electric load of those things is destroying electric components. And that's why somewhere is planned that the cities are equipped with a system that conducts flashes of lightning to the wanted points.

And maybe in the future, the electric system stores lightning's electricity in batteries or capacitors. That kind of system is quite easy to make. The requirement is that. The capacitors are connected to the tallest building or highest position lightning conductor.

Making artificial lightning in nature is quite an easy thing. The high-voltage radio waves will send to the cloud. And then the cloud stores electricity until it can conduct that thing to the ground.

Image: Benjamin Franklin and his famous kite experiment that proved lightning was an electric phenomenon. "The BEP engraved the vignette Franklin and Electricity (c. 1860) which was used on the $10 National Bank Note from the 1860s to 1890s". (Wikipedia/ Kite experiment)

In some visions, the next-generation lighting conductor would be the saltwater beam, that shot, to the thundercloud. Or maybe the small airship will send in it, and then the system drops the electric wire to the wanted point.

When lightning starts to strike. It forms the ion channel between the cloud and the most up-ground point. Then the electrons are starting to move in that channel. The eruption channel is quite easy to make by using a laser that ionizes the air. The problem is that the lightning can harm the laser system if there is nothing that transfers electricity to another route before it hits the laser.

Researchers must put a laser in the Faraday cage that protects it against high-voltage electricity. The other version is that there is an antenna that conducts lightning away from the laser. The Faraday cage can be a box made by using chicken wire. And in some other models putting the chicken wire between the laser and thundercloud is enough to protect the laser against the lightning.

In some other versions, the system uses the opposite version of Frankilin's experiment. The idea is this. Researchers could send an airship into the thundercloud, which shoots a laser ray to the wanted point on Earth. Otherwise, this kind of system can use the salt water shower that shoots to the ground.

That thing can use to make the lighting hit a certain point. Or the simplest possibility is that. The rugby-ball size airship just drops the nylon wire to the ground when it flies into the thundercloud. And maybe rockets are used to transfer those airships to thunderclouds.

Rocket-guided lightning is advancing lightning research. But someday in the future, that thing can make it possible to capture energy from the thunderclouds. There are many ways how to conduct lighting to a certain point. One of the things is just to make an artificial eruption channel between the thundercloud and the point where researchers want to conduct that lightning.

One version is to use rockets, that are pulling carbon or some other dust trail. That dust trail acts like an artificial eruption channel. Or in some other versions, there would be thin nylon wire, covered with copper bites that conduct lightning to a certain point on the ground.

In nature, things like campfires caused lightning strikes when the lightning travels down with that carbon channel that the smoke forms. So the rocket that shot in the thundercloud can act like smoke and make the carbon channel where the electricity can travel.

https://bigthink.com/hard-science/rocket-guided-lightning/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite_experiment

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