A high-speed photo of lightning rods at work during an electrical storm in São José dos Campos, Brazil, is helping scientists understand how the devices compete to attract strikes and keep ...

Benjamin first encountered the performance of electricity experiments on a trip to his childhood home in Boston in 1746.

The Laser Lightning Rod (LLR) involves, as the name suggests, beaming a laser into the clouds during a storm to forge a path of least resistance for the electricity to flow through.

Lightning rods don't prevent a strike, but it provides a pathway for the strike to travel so it doesn't cause fire or electrical damage.

Lightning rods, dating back to Franklin's time, are metal rods atop buildings, connected to the ground with a wire, that conduct electric charges lightning strikes harmlessly into the ground.

The basic design behind lightning rods, of course, is to usher the electrical energy from a strike to the ground using an insulated wire. A thunderstorm with lightning. Image source: Christopher/Adobe ...

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“A laser rod could protect a very large surface, and could even possibly trigger the lightning at long distance -- at several hundreds of metres, or even a kilometer if you have enough energy.” ...

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