[time-nuts] Lightning and grounds...

Chuck Harris cfharris at erols.com
Sun Oct 4 23:24:44 UTC 2009


Don Latham wrote:

> Use of "brush" or radioactive lightning rods, as has been pointed out, is
> pointless and even dangerous. If you feel you have to experiment with
> such, at least just use a sort of ball of barbed wire rather than paying
> someone a small fortune for junk. Any "brush discharge" lightning rod only
> serves to protect itself, and not even that in the presence of wind.

Curious, a quick tour of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab's satellite dish
farm finds many instances of brush style lightning rods...

They must all be wrong too!

-Chuck Harris



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