Nikola Tesla believed that there is a dielectric layer in the atmosphere which is charged up by sunlight. I've never seen convincing proof this isn't the case. This also would explain why outward bolts of lighting as if into space can sometimes be seen, from space.
Also we can see now why science on this subject, which has to be funded by for profit utilities energy companies, or other profit driven bodies like banks, systemically works to suppress all information that might reveal that with free energy, everything has to go for free including money, because in the end it is all energy, and all energy is given for free by the sun. Implementing free energy from the sun would end the for-profit economy, and not before time, because profit is directly linked to increasing entropy whcih manifests as planetary temperature - another fact that is never investigated much by profit driven science, which seems to work systemically to try to preserve what is actually a planet destroying system of energy slavery.
Isn't it strange that the prodigious work of Tesla is never talked much about by science, or that reversing increase of entropy happens automatically, just by actually using sunlight, rather than energy extracted from the planet?