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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So, we also get plenty of sun, and although it works, it’s not perfect because solar power is not constantly available and we don’t have a nice and efficient way to store that energy.

Lightings/thunders are even less reliable than sun… you get the energy only when there is a storm and if you get a thunder.

Plus, all the other points raised by other comments.

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