NZ Weather Forum

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:

bpo wrote: Imagine if we could harness all that energy.

It's a shame that they can't "harness" lightning electricity and store it into the national grid.

The price of storage is coming down. 36MW battery: http://www.xtremepower.com/advantage/ex ... -wind-farm. Closer to NZ is the one at the South Pole (first link on the list).

But how do you "harness" lightning? - or is that abhorent to some storm chasers [kind of like a hydro dam to enviromentalists]?

Bradley wrote:A few centimetres of snow overnight here - came as a bit of a surprise!!

A light dusting of snow (maybe mixed with hail) as low as about 500m on Banks Peninsula hills this morning. Gone now, certainly on Mt Herbert.

moylanr wrote: But how do you "harness" lightning? - or is that abhorent to some storm chasers [kind of like a hydro dam to enviromentalists]?

Well somebody is making a start

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadge ... -lightning

Yeah right. Like that's going to work. Maybe if you lived in Darwin during the build up.