Electro Thermal Fuel Vessel for Lightning Energy Utilization

Abstract

Today, one of the major challenges is the utilization of renewable energy resources to its maximum extent to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels. In this paper, I have introduced a theory supported with detail mathematical calculations and simulations of utilization of lightnings as a source of energy. In the first part of the paper a mathematical model is prepared using the poissons distribution to predict the approximate no. of lightnings occurrence globally. As this data is not precise, I have built a lightning counter electronic device that in future will precisely count the lightnings and help in preparing a lightning atlas. Once, we know the frequency of occurrence of lightnings at different locations we could set up an electro thermal vessel which is a type of power plant which would convert the energy of lightnings to generate steam from water which could use to run the turbines and generate electricity. The Vessel is designed using compress and Stadd software and its thermal analysis is done using CFD-CFX software.