@lpntes @rowenez you already have a highly resistive layer over the entire earth, the air, that’s why lightning only comes in such powerful surges, all you need is to control the flow, it’s already directed with lightning rods, the greater the resistance the greater the buildup by decreasing the risistance between the charges you can spread out the strikes into more manageable transfers one way to do this is to decrease the distance through the air the charges travel, to do this you could try to build a humungus 300 story tower, you could build a bouyant cable tower supported by (weather) ballons/blimps every 100ft or so (not good in stormy weather), or you could connect a high area (mountain) with a low area (valley), another way is to decrease the resistance of the air, nicola tesla did experiments with making plasma with accousticly calculated lasers to transfer electricity, the electric potentials could be monitored and plasma bridges formed after the charge transfer will cover the energy it took to make the bridge, i think the mountain valley concept is the most economically possible but the weather balloon and plasma bridge ideas might work (with research) on oceans.