Storm’s power is to manipulate weather. Science is yet to be able to

manipulate weather beyond encouraging or preventing rain. Lightning

can be produced on a small scale, however, with a device called a

Tesla Coil or on an even smaller scale with a Van de Graaff generator.

 

Charging up.All it takes to get lightning is to

separate positive and negative charges (take

electrons from one object and put them on another.).

Once charge is separated an electric field exists

between thecharges and a voltage exists (energy

difference acting on thecharge). With enough

voltage electrons will jump through the airto get

from the negative object to the positive object.

 

Voltage of lightning.

The best Van de Graaff generators can build up around 300,000 V

and so make a 10-15 cm long spark (lightning) through the air.

This lightning has an estimated voltage of typical lightning is

several hundred million volts.

 

Storm’s control of Lightning.

In orderto create lightning Storm must be able to separate charge in herself. However to control and direct lightning she must be able to induce a charge separation in other objects. If she couldn’t control which objects get an induced charge then she would have absolutely no control over where the lightning went beyond it going to the closest earthed point. Lightning will always try and get to Earth – the biggest source of atoms and charge there is.