How to store light energy

How do you store light as energy?

Re your next question storing light as light seems a pointless exercise. We don't store electricity as charge, we store it as chemical energy in a battery because that's easier, cheaper and more useful. If you want to store light put the energy in a battery then use the energy to power an LED.

How do you store electricity as a charge?

We don't store electricity as charge, we store it as chemical energy in a battery because that's easier, cheaper and more useful. If you want to store light put the energy in a battery then use the energy to power an LED. @raptortech97: we can store charge temporarily in a capacitor and we can store a magnetic field temporarily in an inductor.

How do we store sun light?

So, may be, the very first thing that we need is to find such a media to store the sun light, as that hot gas containing atoms of rubidium or may be that should be some sort of a solid matter, and a second step is to create a sort of a convertor to transform that collected energy into a mechanical or electrical power.

How does Lightning work?

The problem is that the energy is deposited all at once, instead of spread out over time. 3) Much of the energy of the lightning discharge goes into heating up the air and making the glow. The available energy at the ground is just the amount of energy required to get the electrons into or off of the ground surface.

Can lightning capture energy?

“The challenge of capturing energy from lightning is that while there may be a billion joules of energy, it’s mainly being used up in the lightning strike itself,” he says. “The bright light and the loud thunder that humans observe is most of the energy being used up – so in some respects, it’s a little too late by the time it hits the ground.

How do you store photons in a container?

For the photons that make up light to exist they have to be travelling at the speed of light. This means that to store them you have to put them in a container where they can move around at the speed of light until you want to let them out.