Considering these numbers, it's essential for every organization to analyze facilities and operations to identify lightning vulnerability. Designs and operational means to deflect potential accidents ...

Ed Lobnitz, retired principal/senior electrical engineer at TLC Engineering Solutions, wrote the chapter on lightning protection for towers that has appeared in several editions of the NAB Engineering ...

Many tall office buildings have “lightning protection equipment” — but the state capitol doesn’t — yet. “It is common for the capitol building to get struck during a lightning storm,” says Caleb ...

The Lightning Protection Institute (LPI) partners with Lightning Safety Alliance (LSA) to present a webinar on lightning protection systems. LIBERTYVILLE, IL, USA ...

Without question, a thunderstorm is very dangerous. It can produce high winds, tornados, hail, and floods, which usually are not big problems for boats or ships. But it also creates ESD events called ...

They say that lightning doesn't strike the same place twice. Wrong! The Empire State building has been struck thousands of times, so often that it was used as a test object during early lightning ...

Q. We bought a house a little over a year ago that sits high on a hill. Since we moved in the house has been hit twice by lightning. Each of the strikes did some damage, with the last one being the ...

Lightning hitting airplanes is commonplace and, though lightning has downed several commercial aircraft, it rarely leads to catastrophe thanks to modern protection systems. Each commercial airplane is ...

The share of wind power in total electric power generation is expected to increase, and with that comes a requirement for this carbon-free source to be more reliable. The most important component of a ...