{"id":1808846,"date":"2023-01-17T17:34:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T22:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1808846"},"modified":"2023-01-17T17:34:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T22:34:58","slug":"scientists-direct-lightning-using-lasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scientists-direct-lightning-using-lasers\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Direct Lightning Using Lasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fscientists-direct-lightning-using-lasers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1808846&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p class=\"p1\">Switzerland&#8217;s physicists have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2023\/jan\/16\/scientists-steer-lightning-bolts-with-lasers-for-the-first-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> There is a way to use lasers for lightning protection, but the overall value of this method is not known.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt is inspiring,\u201d Matteo Clerici (physicist, University of Glasgow) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/playing-zeus-scientists-use-laser-beam-control-lightning-bolts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. Clerici wasn&#8217;t involved in this project. \u201cWhat will be the application of this? We can only speculate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The experiments were successfully completed in 2021, and the research was published Monday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41566-022-01139-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nature Photonics<\/a>According to, scientists have shown \u201cthe first demonstration that laser-induced filaments,\u201d The laser pulses are short and harsh, so they can send lightning to large areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A lightning rod was the only way to stop lightning from destroying buildings for years. It was created by Benjamin Franklin in 1752. Science <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/playing-zeus-scientists-use-laser-beam-control-lightning-bolts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted<\/a>. A metal rod is attached to the top of the structure. The wire then connects to the earth. The lightning attracts to the rod, and then moves away from the structure. After lightning strikes the rod, the wire releases the electricity into ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Aur\u00e9lien Houard, a physicist at the \u00c9cole Polytechnique, told Science that researchers have wondered if lasers could be used to move lightning, too. This idea revolves around the possibility that the laser could create a straight line of ionized water on which the electric current could more easily transmit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the 1990s, scientists created lasers that emit pulses lasting only femtoseconds. \u201cquadrillionths (or millionths of a billionth) of a second,\u201d According to MIT <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2012\/explained-femtoseconds-and-attoseconds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Houard stated that the shorter pulses of energy with less energy worked better to unlock channels that were conductive. The laser can ionize air parts, which can make the laser last for a long time. \u201cfilament.\u201d The filament heats up the air and pushes molecules away. This creates a channel that conducts electricity better, which attracts lightning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Prior attempts in a natural environment of lightning haven\u2019t worked, but experiments in labs have been successful. The new team of scientists found a way for it to work in real-life. Jean-Pierre Wolf (University of Geneva) and Houard have been the leaders of the group.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cAlthough this research field has been very active for more than 20 years, this is the first field-result that experimentally demonstrates lightning guided by lasers,\u201d The published study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41566-022-01139-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The team put a femtosecond laser on the top of Switzerland\u2019s S\u00e4ntis mountain beside a communications structure, which gets struck by lightning over 100 times annually.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">During their experiments, the group radiated their laser past the tower\u2019s high point during thunderstorms over several months in 2021. Scientists discovered that the laser operated four times during lightning strikes on the tower. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2023\/jan\/16\/scientists-steer-lightning-bolts-with-lasers-for-the-first-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">changed<\/a> the lightning\u2019s path.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Although experiments showed that lightning would follow the laser beam, these lasers cost millions of dollars. Houard said that sometimes a laser beam may be more appealing than a lightning rod because it can protect more ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists in Switzerland have found a way to use lasers to keep lightning away from important structures, but its overall value is still unknown.\u00a0 \u201cIt is inspiring,\u201d Matteo Clerici, a physicist at the University of Glasgow, said. Clerici was not involved in the project. \u201cWhat will be the application of this? We can only speculate.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":1808849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6202,15350,15349,15351,11487,6195],"class_list":["post-1808846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-daily","tag-direct","tag-lasers","tag-lightning","tag-scientists","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1808849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}