laser electricity

BY: BAG

lasers could be a new way to create new and cheap ways to make electricity. The laser beam alone doesn't carry an electric charge ,but there are some cases where if there is a power charge in the air the laser could be used to "ionize" and strip the electrons off the atoms. you would need a high powered laser to be able to acheive this, though. Scientists have experimented with this theory by shooting a pulsed laser into a charge cloud causing the lightning to travel down the laser beam like a wire.