Eli5: what would a vessel need to be made out of in order to capture lightning? Can lighting be captured?

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Just wondering if the saying “capture lightning in a bottle” could be literal.

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AFAIK the best (only) way to do this would be to build a bottle-shaped, gigantic battery. This thing would have to put tesla batteries to shame.

Connect it to a lightning rod via a lot of transformers and whatnot (so as to avoid blowing it up), and then wait for the lightning.

If you wanted a bottle with little lightning bolts inside it, you might be able to get that effect if you take a double walled bottle and line the outer side of the interior wall with tiny wires and equally tiny tesla coils. Maybe.

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