Why can anyone harness power or electricity thru lightning bolts? I think it's a good source of energy.?

Question

Why can anyone harness power or electricity thru lightning bolts? I think it's a good source of energy.?

Answer 1

I think the logistics of having enough conducting agents in the right place,  plus as the one weather guy said, storing it would be the other issue.

Answer 2

Its too hard to capture it. Lightning strikes too sparadically.

Answer 3

The biggest problem is in the ability to store that energy.  Lightning, while being plentiful across the globe as well as in good storms, is a very short lived event.  Even if we could somehow get it to strike a receptor of some sort, there is no way that I am aware that the energy could be conducted to a storage unit capable of storing the energy in the very short amount of time that the lightning strikes.

Answer 4

no one knows where it will strike