Brazilian researchers captured on camera the brief moment when lightning rods on buildings released an upward discharge to attract incoming lightning. By Nicholas Bakalar Benjamin Franklin invented ...

One World Trade Center is not just the country’s tallest building. It’s also its largest lightning rod. However, experts say there’s nothing to fear, as the skyscraper is built to absorb the strikes. ...

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 ...

A modern distribution system that feeds a facility having a significant environment of susceptible electronic equipment requires protection against lightning-induced overvoltages. And when an overhead ...

It has been observed that installing a metal roof makes building owners think more about lightning and the dangers of lightning strikes. There is a perception, or at least a suspicion, that a metal ...

Lightning is one of the major causes of poor performance by medium-voltage overhead lines in distribution networks. On some Eskom medium-voltage networks, for example, up to 78% of equipment failures ...

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 ...

ORNL researchers and technicians prepare to remove the wind blade tips from molds where glass fibers were cured with layers of ORNL carbon fiber. Source | Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy ...

Thunderstorm, shmunderstorm. Think about early Native American inhabitants of the region. They didn’t need any stinkin’ tent. They just hunkered under a deerskin or a few tree limbs. Talus 23 By ...

Penelec, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., is working to prevent or minimize the length of service disruptions, particularly during severe weather, in Blair and Huntingdon counties. The project ...

South Africa has an extensive medium-voltage overhead line electric distribution network supported mainly by wood poles. The predominant voltage is 22 kV between phases. Some of the lines traverse ...