Following recent severe weather and storms, homeowners in Greater Cincinnati are looking to install lightning rods to ensure their homes stay safe from lightning strikes.Lightning rods intercept ...
A high-speed photo of lightning rods at work during an electrical storm in São José dos Campos, Brazil, is helping scientists understand how the devices compete to attract strikes and keep buildings ...
A group of scientists say they successfully steered bolts of lightning using laser technology during a storm in Switzerland, demonstrating a potential new method to protect infrastructure from ...
Laser giant Trumpf and the University of Geneva have fired up a laser-based lightning rod at the top of Säntis mountain in Switzerland. Over the summer of 2021, the researchers will be using this ...
Everyone learns about lightning rods in grade school. There is the heavy-duty kind on skyscrapers that takes the brunt of bolts and conducts them safely to ground, and the delicate, sharply pointed ...
MORRIS -- Lightning strikes have the power to blow a chimney off a house and cause millions of dollars in damage to homes each year. Yet lightning rods-which protect homes from the electric shocks-are ...
Nov. 29—WATERFORD — Thanks to resident Jim Barnard, the 19th-century era Beebe-Phillips House is once again protected from lightning strikes. One day this past summer, Barnard took his 1959 Cadillac ...