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Sandra Boston writes from Baltimore: "Why have they not tried to harness the electricity in a thunderstorm? That would be renewable energy and a bottomless source of cheap electricity." Juice from the sky? Great idea. But cheap? We'd need lots of infrastructure, in bolt-prone zones, ready to catch and absorb 10 million to 120 million volts (and 54,000 degrees F) in a split second, store the electricity somehow, convert it to AC, and feed it onto the grid to match demand. Investors would wait ... and pray for rain.

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