"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should." -Ian from Jurassic Park (a movie I need to watch
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Don't have hard feelings, the internet has been so nice to us (or the moderators are so on the ball) people tend to freak out over possible incidents of spam. I've used an occasional VPN tunneling in from Russia or Ukraine and have had no problems on the forum. The flags are more a lax way to just say where you're from, and i don't believe they are really enforced.
Honestly, unless you develop a supercap good enough to capture a good 1.21 jiggawatts of power in a few milliseconds, I do not believe harvesting energy from thunderstorms is much of a good idea. Funny thing, wind turbines actually apply breaks during harsh weather with high winds so they don't blow apart.
Their claim about being able to supply one home, I don't see any possible way the kinetic energy from rain falling (or any other way they could harvest energy) could possibly supply that much power. You'd need a massive area of water collection to even have enough potential energy to get that much power. Maybe it could be put as something quick in rain collection systems, but I don't see this being viable. I am, however, uneducated in many respects, and likely not an amazing person to dictate the sciences behind various technologies, which is exactly why I try not to get involved in discussions about things like Hyperloop.