IN A LIGHTNING FLASH
In one flash of lightning more power is concentrated than any electric poAver station in the Avorld can command, and it is sometimes put as high as 10.000 million electric volts. But this figure does not satisfy the engineers of the Westinghouse Electric Company. Avho have been making daring experiments for some time past from a high roAver Avhere they attempt to catch and calculate the lightning flash. Most of these experiments haA'e the practical aim of finding the best kind of insulation to protect overhead electric cables during thunder-storms; but one curious calculation has come out of them The duration of a lightning stroke in its passage from the thundercloud to earth is about a fiftieth of a second; but if it could be safely bottled up it Avould keep a 100-watt lamp alight for three minutes. Some day we may be able to bottle electricity from the thundercloud.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13235, 10 January 1941, Page 6
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