Energy: Lightning

>> Aren't most "lightning" strikes from Earth to Sky, not actually from Sky to Earth? I believe it has something to do with the Earth balancing its energy by expelling (static energy from the Sun?) energy from itself out into space. If most lightning occurs from cloud to cloud, then why not have a divice (hot-air balloon, blimp, etc.) that would navigate itself (by remote control?) into a storm, the way planes fly into lightning storms and active hurricanes? And then by allowing itself to be "struck", it would "redirect/conduct" this energy down to the surface where it would be collected or redirected to energy collectors (this would be the same as having giant Solar collectors in fixed orbit in space transmitting Solar energy down to the Earth as microwaves that would be collected in giant Microwave Energy Farms - I saw this on a G.I. Joe cartoon episode once). The blimps, or balloons, would be covered in metal strips, or whatnot, and by this way conduct this energy to the ground like a giant floating lighting-rod. Perhaps these blimps could have conducting cables attached to their undersides between the blimp and the ground which would allow the energy to be more uniformally conducted (is there a way to harness the Earth's magnetic-field for energy? I wonder if satelites positioned within the Van Allen Belts could by used to harness this energy field and re-transmit the energy back towards Earth). I suggested using blimps that travel within the Earth's jet-streams harnessing wind power and then transmitting this energy to power stations on the ground. The blimps would have wind turbines attached to them. Their attempting to use unmanned floating blimps as floating computer relay terminals, in fixed low-Earth orbits. <<