I'm so glad I switched to duck email. Might as well changes it again and block the old email.

Shouldn't I be able to reply on lemmy using my mastodon account?

That is awesome. As long as I don't have anything new to post this should work for me.

Not a physicist, but here is my understanding.

It shouldn't. We can't store that much energy with current technology. Energy can't be created or destroyed, so we would be using it for some other purpose and converting it to something else. Lightning strikes help in the nitrogen cycle, but that happens in the air. I doubt this would be impacted by us capturing the energy.

If we are able to store that much energy, we would be advanced enough to keep our planet safe, hopefully. It will bring different problems. Somewhat related to this, you should read about Kardashev scale and Dyson spheare.

Putting up wind farms should have more impact since it can change wind patterns, but the new wind turbines might be a lot better.