eli5 why we can’t collect energy from lightning ?

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Saw lot of videos and it seems pretty easy to push wire to thunder clouds to make lightning hit exactly that wire. Why not put some sort of big ass super capacitor and collect this free power for sake of humanity?

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Its like saying why cant we collect power from a single nuclear explosion… Well we sort of do, via controlled fission, and controlled electric output. Lightning is the nuclear bomb equavalant to generating electricity, its high power but very short lasting, worse yet unpridictable.

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