Is there any thing that can hold a lighting bolt long enough for energy transfer?

Question

Instant transference

Natural to any form we can use

Answer 1

I suppose you could build a battery that would work.  It would need some HUGE leads and a very novel design but I would think this would be possible.  

Looking up some info on lightning sources in Wiki claim 100 Terawatts of electrical power in a strike, that might seem great but rember that lighting travels and a very high speed (60,000 m/s) and so that power rate is only for a fraction of a second.  Say a strike occurs that is 5000 ft long, so it takes 0.028 sec to get from air to ground, assume it "powers" for that long somehow.   That means you get 750 kilowatt hr from one strike if you got 100% of it.  Thats enough to run 3 houses for 1 day in the US (10 kw x 24 hrs), not much of a reward?

Answer 2

You could probably use it with a resistor to generate heat.