Recent questions tagged lightning

Description : Have you ever felt lightning move through your body?

Last Answer : No. But I’ve won the lottery once.

Description : Have you ever stuck out your hands and pretended that you are shooting lighting bolts from your hands?

Last Answer : No, but I keep trying to fly. Still waiting for my super-powers to mature.

Description : How large and powerful can a lightning strike get?

Last Answer : Well they’re powerful enough to produce gamma rays and antimatter; on a scale of powerful terrestrial effects, that’s pretty potent in my book.

Description : What's the closest you have been to a lightning strike?

Last Answer : answer:Very close. My house got hit and that was insane to hear and feel that. Trees on my property have been blasted but the absolute craziest was a tree that got whacked 20 feet from my tent! I ... of my house 30 feet from my front porch. Watching it frame by frame is simply stunning to see.

Description : Lightning storm outside - does turning my computer off actually lessen the chance of getting struck?

Last Answer : Preventing damage to you computer. Most likely the lighting would hit a transformer on a pole outside first. This can still fry the electronics in your house. I lost a very nice TV when lighting hit a ... . Unplug it to be safe but having it plugged in doesn't increase the odds of getting hit.

Description : Does lightning originate from the clouds to earth or earth to the clouds?

Last Answer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XwFF5idD_0

Description : I want to know what type of current does lightning consist of an ac, or dc?

Last Answer : I thought ac meant alternating current, and dc meant direct current.

Description : Are men really 4x more likely to be struck by lightning?

Last Answer : hahahahahahahahaha I love that commerical… No.

Description : Mythbusters vs. Ben?

Last Answer : answer:Many stories told about deceased historical figures are apocryphal, and not intended to be actually believed. For one thing, when you examine the story carefully, what kind of supposedly intelligent person, ... 2,000 years later, the story is told that he fed 5,000. Ridiculous, of course

Description : LIGHTNING FACTS

Last Answer : About 24 thousand people are killed by lightning strikes each year, and about 240 thousand more are injured. A lightning bolt is 54 thousand degrees Fahrenheit. That's hotter than the surface of the ... and will create lightning fossils. The odds of being struck by lightning are 1 in 12 thousand.

Description : For protection of rotating machines against lightning surges _______ is used.  (1) lightning arrester (2) capacitor (3) combination of lightning arrester and capacitor (4) lightning conductor and arrester

Last Answer : For protection of rotating machines against lightning surges combination of lightning arrester and capacitor is used. 

Description : What is the use of lightning arrester?

Last Answer : The lighting arrester is used to discharge the high voltage surge towards the earth by the lighting strike

Description : what is lightning arrester?

Last Answer : Light arrester is a protecting device which is used at substation for protecting the devices in the substation from lighting phenomenon.