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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why can't we harvest energy from lightning?
gpt
We can, we just can't store enough of it to be meaningful.

Lightning is a huge amount of energy over a very very short period of time.

We can capture some of it, but we don't have the battery capacity to store it, or a battery capable of being charged that fast without melting


Catching the energy is fairly simple, lightning rods do it all the time, storing it is impossible given current tech.