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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
hey are pointy and mounted high in order to attract and dissipate the accumulating energy in the atmosphere.
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Promoted is a roundly proven scam called an ESE device. At one point ESE manufacturers in 1998 tried to get the National Electrical Code to list this device as Article 781. Notice this and so many other statements supported by details that anyone can verify.
When rejected, the ESE industry (ie Heary Bros, Lightning Protection Co.. et al) tried to sue the non-profit NFPA trying to threaten it with legal costs and bankruptcy. It backfired. The Bryan Report in 1999 roundly disputes that 'dissipate the atmosphere' myth. And still that myth lives on with people who have no idea how science works.
If honest, he provided some fact that justifies an ESE myth. ESE is promooted by junk science reasoning.
More reality. FAA decided to test this device. Within days, a lightning strike blew the ESE device off the side of an FAA tower. How could that happen if the ESE device discharges air?
Meanwhile research into lightning rods asked which is better: sharp or blunt rods. Using speculation that promoted ESE devices, one would conclude sharp. Reality. Blunt rods were overwhelmingly a best connector of direct lightning strikes to earth. That (and not discharge air) is what lightning rods do.
Research using science (not speculation that promotes ESE devices) has demonstrated that repeatedly.
One thing is quite clear. wdfifteen has no idea how science works. Even the NFPA rejected what he has just posted.