So why can’t we just harness the power from lightning?

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Lightning appears to be this limitless supply of energy, so why isn’t this being considered as a valid source of our future energy needs. Surely we could have some sort of lightning rod connected to a huge array of batteries to store all of this electricity. I’m sure there is a simple explanation, but I’m interested to hear what it is.

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It would seem to me one way to approach this is to somehow extract the power from the clouds BEFORE they have stored enough energy to generate the lightning.

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