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Lightning Strike Gives Douglas Fir New Lease on Life
2014-12-10 20:19:22| PortlandOnline
A Hybrid Lightning Strike Protection System
2014-11-20 18:14:00| Offshore Technology
Lightning is the result of charge accumulation within a cloud cell exceeding the dielectric strength of the air and, as a result, the air beneath the cloud is no longer able to act an insulator between the charge and path to ground.
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Hybrid Lightning Strike Protection System
2014-10-29 15:38:00| Power Technology
The first lightning protection system (LPS) went into operation over 250 years ago with the advent of the air terminal, also known as the lightning rod, attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
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Lightning strike causes sewage spill in Bay St. Louis
2014-08-11 22:55:16| Waste Management - Topix.net
A section of the beach in Bay St. Louis has been closed because of a sewage spill, the state Department of Environmental Quality said in a press release Monday.
Deadly lightning strike was rare event for Southern California coast
2014-07-28 22:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Lightning storms that killed a 20-year-old beachgoer in Los Angeles and sent eight other people to the hospital stemmed from a combination of atmospheric conditions relatively unusual for coastal Southern California, weather experts said on Monday. A bolt of lightning, accompanied by what witnesses described as an explosive thunder clap, struck near the shore of Venice Beach on Sunday during a storm that materialized quickly and lasted about 15 minutes. An estimated 20,000 people were at the...
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