Every year I spend the holidays with my mother in Wisconsin. Each time I’m there, I look outside her living room window and see the lightning protection rod on the roof of the house across the street.

Above: An autonomous vehicle that deploys a conducting cable in wind turbine blades to determine lightning protection system continuity and reduce maintenance costs. Wind turbines are potential ...

Electrical substations utilize direct lightning stroke shielding to help ensure proper operation, and to prevent costly damages and extended outages. While modern substation designs and equipment make ...

Benjamin Franklin's 1752 lightning protection invention consisted of a rod in the air, one in the ground, and a connecting conductor. Today, this conventional wisdom still offers fire protection in ...

General aviation aircraft, large commercial jets and wind turbines are vulnerable to lightning strike. FAA-certified aircraft, for example, are typically struck once or twice a year. Unlike their ...

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 ...

A new laboratory has opened that will study the impact of lightning strikes on airplanes, particularly new aircraft that are made up of carbon composite materials. The $2.5 million Morgan-Botti ...

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 ...

Billy Martin is an engineer at WSU’s National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR). He is working to stop lightning damage to wind turbines. His invention is gaining quite a bit of attention. He is ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Considering the importance of lightning protection as one of the needful areas of awareness and training in India, the Lightning Awareness and Research Centre (LARC), part of the ...