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▲ myrmidon a day ago

It's around 1MWh within a fraction of a second.

That means very high peak power, making your whole capture infrastructure extremely expensive, but even capturing 100% of an average lightning bolt is worth <$100 in electricity.

Which is why nobody even attempts this.

▲neutronicus a day ago | parent [-]

An actual generation scheme would probably do something with the potential difference prior to dielectric breakdown actually occurring, at any rate.