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Isn't it weird that we'll never (ever?) talk about lightnings as a potential renewable energy source ? (lemmygrad.ml)
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Seems to my ignorant eyes that we could always somehow split the power received into more manageable units, even if it has to be splitted a million times, 🤷‍♂️.

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[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Voltage rises with altitude, it's theoretically possible to raise one end of a well insulated wire very high into the sky and jam the other end into the Earth to draw current from the sky.

This isn't exactly harnessing lighting, more like harvesting the energy in lightning before it strikes.