Why Can't We Use Lightning for Electricity?

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Correction:
5:22 This is Watt's law, not Ohm's law! Our math was right but our name was wrong.

We need green energy yesterday. And it so happens that nature regularly sends huge bolts of electricity at us out of the sky. So what are the challenges of harvesting lightning for sustainable power?

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