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I mean, not in the sense that they’re trying to do it, but that’s ultimately what drives hydroelectric dams.

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Sure, but those are completely different approaches. Dams have the advantage that they have a much larger capture area for water and that they can accelerate the water beyond the 10 m/s terminal velocity of raindrops.

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We gotta build a reservoir just below cloud level and then put turbines all the way down to sea level to harvest more of the energy

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Blimp reservoirs!

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