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Sign in to post a comment. Please keep comments to less than words. No abusive material or spam will be published. Techrex November 13, AM. I am throwing spitballs here, but, if lightning strikes occur very often in certain places, like Florida beaches, and a unique lake where they have unbelievable lightning strikes all of the time, could this device be used to direct the lightning strikes to lightning rods, that are grounded in a steel mill's blast furnace' s pool of molten metals?
The grounded lightning bolts charges, would be wired into these special carbon rods that Union Carbide makes for steel mill fernances, that use electricity to superheat the contained pool of molten iron or steel.
Why should we do that? If the entire world has an insurmountable problem with the disposal of many types of toxic wastes, why not use the power of lightning bolts to destroy it, by dumping it into these superhot molten pool of metals?
The resulting gases would be reduced to their single basic elements, which could be commercially recycled for industrial applications, or vented directly into the atmosphere safely.
We have always had this 'Brute Force' method of destroying toxic materials, but nobody could afford the costly electric bills! It tickles me to read about "tractor beams" and it's still joyous when it turns out to be a hallow laser trapping particles in the air.
Still, it's hard to see how this could ever be practically deployed to fire prone areas -- especially considering the competing method is a simple, inert metal rod just a bit taller than the surrounding trees. Stuff of science fiction made real. I live in California and this kind of tech cold not come soon enough Bob Bogen November 13, AM.
Does anyone else see the military potential as a disruptor of enemy electronics or high energy weapons? Or indeed the graphene could carry an electron pulse in the opposite direction- Thor' s hammer! FB36 November 14, AM. Isn't graphene toxic to breathe? My point was that if a normal human being can't redirect lightning with their body, neither can a waterbender or earthbender or airbender.
Only firebenders have a special ability to control lightning, while every other kind of bender has the same relationship to lightning that real people have in the real world: no control at all. From this quote we can surmise it's firebender-only technique. DavidS DavidS Doesn't that apply more to the creation of lightning than to the redirection of lightning?
RogueJedi Possibly, but unlikely. You could make the same argument for normal firebending. What RogueJedi seems to be saying is that you are answering the question 'is lighting a firebending-only skill? Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. Upcoming Events. November Topic Challenge: Samuel R. Delany ends Nov Featured on Meta.
Now live: A fully responsive profile. Linked Related Hot Network Questions. Yes, all benders use their "chi" to help focus their bending. I'm no spiritual expert, but I'm fairly certain simply "having" chi is not enough to generate and redirect lightning, especially if they are wildly different from one's native element. Can you imagine earthbenders doing this?
No, you can not. I don't find it out of line at all. Yes, Iroh says that it is a firebending move, however it was stated by Nickelodeon as a fun fact that only the Avatar could lava ben, and then Ghuzan and Bolin did it in LOK. This could be something similar where it is believed that only certain people can do it because only those people have been seen doing it.
Back to my original statement, to me it seems that only benders have the ability to control the chi and therefore that allows them to bend. Lightning redirection needs the control of the chi, and since benders have that control, then they should be able to redirect. Lightning generation is different than redirection, because with redirection, the lightning has already been created.
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