On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 09:52:49 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

I think serious additional research should be applied to resurrecting
the ultra-genius, Nikola Tesla's idea of capturing and storing the
electrical energy contained in lightning strikes.

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OK, you first !

:-)

Benjamin Franklin was lucky not to have been killed in his little
capture experiment.

I "captured" a lightning strike a few years ago with one our Norfolk
Island Pine trees. It was not a good thing but there *was* a lot of
energy involved.