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Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy
Couple of questions:
1) i thought that through high speed cameras, it has been proven that lightning starts from the ground from collecting charges from the earth and goes up, which is why bolts end up going through and then above the clouds which air line pilots report.
3) I have read that new technology is built to reduce the buildup of earth's charges to reduce/eliminate the risk of creating a lightning bolt. I remember reading about the reduction from lightning protection on ski lifts and gondolas out west. . and this is the first article i found when googling it. .
https://www.lightningprotection.com/...udy-020513.pdf
just questions from a former working guy |
What you reading about is the flow of the electric current once the strike occurs. As someone said, it really doesn't matter since the effect is the same.
There is some new technology taking advantage of the "ionic effect" that lightning rods generate. So when we have a storm and a negatively charged cloud moves over your house, for example, the build up of positive charges at the tips of your lightning rods will create an ionic exchange of charges potentially reducing the chance of a strike. But if the charge build up is large enough, you will get a strike.