{"id":91777,"date":"2019-06-08T10:05:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T17:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/can-we-harvest-lightning-for-the-power-grid"},"modified":"2019-06-08T10:05:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T17:05:31","slug":"can-we-harvest-lightning-for-the-power-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/can-we-harvest-lightning-for-the-power-grid","title":{"rendered":"Can We Harvest Lightning For The Power Grid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-we-harvest-lightning-for-the-power-grid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>By New Scientist, An Energy Realities Partner<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nobody has all the answers to the world\u2019s energy questions, so New Scientist has teamed up with Statoil to search for solutions from New Scientist\u2019s audience.<\/p>\n<p>The question posed was: How much energy is in a lightning bolt? Is it enough, and are there places where lightning strikes often enough, to think about flying kites to transfer that energy to the grid?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/statoil\/2015\/01\/28\/can-we-harvest-lightning-for-the-power-grid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By New Scientist, An Energy Realities Partner Nobody has all the answers to the world\u2019s energy questions, so New Scientist has teamed up with Statoil to search for solutions from New Scientist\u2019s audience. The question posed was: How much energy is in a lightning bolt? Is it enough, and are there places where lightning strikes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}