[Lorin David Schultz]

hank alrich wrote:

This is an unfortunate happening, and I am curious about how the
lightning energy might be abated to prevent this kind of thing.


It can't be abated. Anything mere mortals can build will be swamped so
severely by Ma Nature as to be even statistically insignificant.

I ain't no expert on the subject, but I recall a couple comments from a
review of safety procedures for our remote trucks. The short version
was "Transmitter mast contacting overhead power lines equals no more
truck and dead people within a radius of many, many metres." Since
power lines carry a microminisculesque portion of a fraction of a
teeny-weeny bit of the energy created by a lighting strike yet are still
able to wreak havoc so effectively, I would think that a lightning hit
would fall into the category of "Way lots worse."

--
"It CAN'T be too loud... some of the red lights aren't even on yet!"
- Lorin David Schultz
in the control room
making even bad news sound good

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