Re: Lightning & Bathtubs
- From: w_tom <w_tom1@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 06:57:11 -0700 (PDT)
On Jun 3, 10:58 pm, dnoyeB <as...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
A lightning strike results when static builds up. Grounding the house,
and creating sharp pointy objects into the air is a way for the static
charge to leak off and disipate. However, if the build up is really
quick, then the lightning strike will be right in the same place that was
leaking off the static. The lightning rod.
That pointy little rod will discharge miles of air between cloud and
ground? When ESE providers submitted their products approved by the
NFPA. NFPA had one simple problem. No proof and no research exists
that ESE devices (that discharge air) work as posted here.
If discharging air causes no lightnng, then the Empire State
Building (a conductive steel and concrete rod) is never struck?
Nonsense. Even a wooden structure is sufficiently conductive enough
to discharge that air. Why does lightning strike a wooden church
steeple? Because discharging inches of air does not stop lightning.
Lightning will strike. Does lightning strike a conductive material
(ie wood) destructively or does it strike a well earthed lightning
rod? How good is that lightning rod? Lightning energy gets
dissipated destructively in a building (ie wood) or gets dissipated
harmlessly in earth. Stopping lightning was the ESE manufacturer
claim made to NFPA. That claim was completely rejected.
.
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