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Can We Harness Lightning Energy?
- A standard lightning strike releases about 5 billion joules of energy.
- Every day, 8,640,742 lightning strikes hit the Earth, equivalent to the energy released by burning 1,252,800,000 liters of oil.
- Lightning is a relatively rare phenomenon and is not evenly distributed across the planet.
- In areas with the highest lightning frequency, there are about 70 strikes per square kilometer yearly, or one strike every 5.21 days.
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