Every year I spend the holidays with my mother in Wisconsin. Each time I’m there, I look outside her living room window and see the lightning protection rod on the roof of the house across the street.

Because wireless systems are typically located out of doors and have components located on towers and tall buildings, they are especially susceptible to damage from lightning. Therefore, it is ...

HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) - With over 25,000,000 strikes of lightning per year in the U.S., according to the National Weather Service, lightning doesn't even have to strike the same place twice to ...

Residential PV systems are generally installed on the rooftop of residential buildings, with a large metal surface area, higher distance from the ground and an exposed location. Such PV systems are ...

An airplane flying between oppositely charged regions can trigger lightning within a cloud, from cloud to cloud, or from cloud to ground. Chris Cosner Every airliner is struck by lightning in flight ...

The standard way of protecting buildings (and their occupants) from lightning is pretty simple: You stick a lightning rod on the roof, and then some kind of conducting channel that takes the huge ...

Over the centuries, people have developed numerous ways to protect themselves, their homes, and their property from lightning strikes. As arborists in North Florida, one of our major concerns is ...

WE welcome the handbook entitled “Code for Protection against Lightning”, a revised edition of which has just been published (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1933, 15 cents). The number ...

(Toledo News Now) - Have you ever seen a lightning strike near your home? Have you ever thought about what would happen if lightning hit your home? There are ways you can protect everything near and ...

In the past couple of weeks, lightning claimed over 40 lives and injured many in different parts of the country. This is one of the many recent calamities that have left dozens of families grieving ...