text: can lectricity  be collected  from lightning and stored? i could use some of that lectricity it cost so much these days. where to begin?  i guess first i'll say there is no such thing as "electricity", as far as some tangible resource you can store and generate.  there is charge, voltage, and current, and the only one you can truly store is charge (but with charge, you can create a voltage difference, which can, in turn, create current).    second, the link given above is to someone posting an idea they had about storing lightning with capacitors.  it has not been done and, to the best of my knowledge, is unfeasible.  storing the energy (not the charge) from the lightning strike is much more feasible, but still not likely to happen for a long time.    in short, if you were thinking of collecting lightning, storing the charge, and then using it to power your home, you can't do it, and you'd be well advised not to try.  if some brave researcher were to have been able to store a few kilojoules from a lightning strike at some point, i wouldn't be too surprised, but at this point, it's just not happening.