system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: What prevents us from harnessing the full potential of thunderstorms for electricity?

having thought about it and researched it briefly there seems to be a consensus that it is possible but implausible at this point in time, to harvest the energy of lightning.
gpt
An average lightning bolt has ~1.5 GJ of energy, there are ~1.6 billion lightning strikes a year, resulting in a total energy of ~2.4 * 10^9 J, world energy consumption is 5.4 * 10^20 J. So, if you could capture every single lightning bolt with %100 efficiency, you could supply less than half a percent (%0.44) of world energy consumption. It's just not worth it.