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Lightning use

Author:      anne m jones
Do you think that you could capture and store lightning for an energy use?  If 
so, why or why not?

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Author:      mortis
There is a book called "The Man Who Tamed Lightning" about a scientist who 
though a lot about this question.  Some of the big names in the field are 
Gauss, Coulomb, Maxwell, Faraday, Cavendish, Tesla, and of course, Benjamin 
Franklin.  You could look their names up in a dictionary or encyclopedia or an 
elementary physics textbook.

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