An animated flowchart of our system is shown below. Elements of the system are discussed in more depth in the ‘Capture’, ‘Conversion’, ‘Storage’, and ‘Extraction’ pages. For even more detail, our report can be found on the home page.

The basic concept is that heating elements running through concrete are heated using the electrical current from a lightning strike, heating the concrete, which stores the energy as latent heat.  Then, the energy can be extracted by hydrating the concrete and turning the heat emitted into electricity using a thermionic generator.