Conductive metals are used to bond lights to the wingtips, and the bonding protects the lights by grounding ... a lightning strike. Today engineers install these systems with surge protection ...

Lightning protection systems use large copper cables that are installed high in the tree, down the trunk and into a trench in the ground that leads away from the tree where the cable is connected ...

Lightning is dangerous and deadly when it connects to the ground. Unlike other types of ... Medwick says a car will act like ...

The National Weather Service and the National Lightning Safety Council advise that the crouch offers no significant protection from ... your body from a nearby ground strike will go through ...