Lightning electromagnet?

[MDJH]

I think I remember mentioning this as one of my ideas (among others) in the "lightning as an energy source" thread; what if we were to have some kind of grid-like (except 3-D) network of wires of some conductor positioned in the sky in a way that the angle can be changed so that said network can be passed through a charged cloud, and then have the wires converge so as to combine all the electricity from the network of wires into one wire, giving it a path to the ground, but except in order to get to the ground, it'd have to pass through an area where it was coiled around a ferromagnetic material to create a solenoid? Imagine how strong the magnetic field would be, even if only for a second, but just how suddenly strong it would be... or how it could be used maybe, with the sheer strength pulling something rapidly?

 

Now IIRC from physics class, the strength of an electromagnet depends on the current flowing, the number of turns of wire, the size of the coil, and how ferromagnetic the material in the core is; though this brings up another quesiton with regards to electromagnetism in general, does that mean that infinitely increasing the number of turns of wire infinitely increases the strength of the electromagnet? But in this particular case, if it depends on the current and not the voltage, then what about use of some kind of iron ring like Faraday's Iron Ring (which had coils of wire on each side and the magnetic field created by one side induced current in the other side) with more coils on one side than the other to increase the current by decreasing the voltage? But in that case, then couldn't the current by increase infinitely by having more coils? Same kinda thing again...

 

Anyway, yeah, what about that idea?

[YT2095]

like converting the energy of a coil gun projectile into electricity.

 

(just for brevity)

[MDJH]

like converting the energy of a coil gun projectile into electricity.

 

(just for brevity)

What's a coil gun projectile?

[YT2095]

essentially the core of a solenoid.

[MDJH]

essentially the core of a solenoid.

So the idea of a lightning electromagnet is like "converting the energy of the core of a solenoid into electricity"? Care to explain what you mean by this?

[YT2095]

erm dude, it`s YOUR idea man!

 

fact is anyway, it won`t work.

 

you`re just exchanging One pulse of electricity for another with losses.

[Klaynos]

erm dude, it`s YOUR idea man!

 

fact is anyway, it won`t work.

 

you`re just exchanging One pulse of electricity for another with losses.

 

Ignoring this...

 

We could mount it between 2 airships... Of course it'd probably take out any electrical device for quite a range, but hell it'd be so cool!

[YT2095]

Indeed!

[MDJH]

erm dude, it`s YOUR idea man!

 

fact is anyway, it won`t work.

 

you`re just exchanging One pulse of electricity for another with losses.

Well what I meant was that if this would do a sudden quick pull it could pull a heavy object made of some ferromagnetic material up a steep slope to convert the electric energy to gravitational potential energy so that it could be converted again and stored so that it could be used gradually...

[YT2095]

naaah, you`de be favored getting it to kick a large flywheel into motion instead, and then use further pulses to accelerate this.