[ahahahahah]

Yes, thanks for repeating the content from the article.

"In addition, we aim to not only trigger and control lightning, but also to harness its energy. Future efforts will focus on developing technologies for capturing and storing lightning energy for potential use (Figure 7)."

[dinkblam]

isn't conventional wisdom that this is "impossible" because you cannot charge batteries that fast?

[fudged71]

Like most things, you’d probably end up heating water somehow and using that energy.

[borski]

If the energy is going into batteries. It doesn’t necessarily have to.

Also, technology continues to improve, and this isn’t a “next year” thing.