Power your home with lightning: The ancient gods have answered our prayers
Harnessing the power of nature has always been a concern for humanity, but the power of lightning has been believed to be so overwhelming by ancient civilizations that only the most powerful gods in each cosmogony were deemed capable of handling it. Now, as part of our continuous exploration of alternative energy sources, it is time to invoke the power of those ancient gods again.
Once considered one of nature’s more ethereal forces, lightning is now lending itself as a source of clean power generation, and is currently proving to be a viable and renewable way to create energy. Furthermore, inventor Steve Le
Roy has developed a device that even generates lightning in order to harvest energy from its thunderous electrical discharge. As limited as this power may sound, Le
Roy believes that a full-scale system could power as many as 30,000 homes for a day with just one lightning bolt, with the average Midwest thunderstorm generating enough energy to power the entire U.S. for 20 minutes. There you have it! Now, if you ever get a bill in the mail from Thor Enterprises, Compañía Eléctrica Changó, or Zeus Electric Inc., then you’ll know that your ancestor’s prayers have been answered.