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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Lightning would be inconsistent, distributed across a wide area, and would be costly to capture and distribute for little energy generated. You could get more power out of your local creek over time with a turbine.
Our grid is centralized because we haven’t figured out how to capture, store, and share power in a distributed fashion. The grid isn’t made up that way…but it eventually could. Imagine a storm that would normally knock out power, being used to power wind turbines in every household, that feeds homes that would normally go dark. Solar power being used to generate and store electricity, and having that power feed areas overnight, and those with bad weather over a few days, a few states away.
TLDR: It isn’t that easy, and even if it was easy, it wouldn’t yield consistent results.
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