Wrong, you can capture it from the earth, we just do not know how. And the earth makes new lighting every second some where.
I said that energy can be captured. It cannot be renewed.
And the earth makes new lighting every second some where.
So? Just because there is so much energy from that source that we cannot use it all does not mean that the release of charge is "renewed." That the earth has a magnetic field and generates Coriolis forces that produce electrical charges does not mean that the energy released in those discharges is "renewed." The Second Law of Thermodynamics and the conservation of energy say that there will be loss. The energy will not be renewed. The earth will slow in rotation and the sun will consume its hydrogen. Just because there just happens to be a lot of it does not mean that it will be "renewed."