The alternative lightning protection effrots have been routinely met with scorn and ridicule by academia and people with lot of suffixes and prefixes around their names. I attribute this to the ABB synndrome, as in Anything But Benjamin.

Fortunatelly some of us rationalists have found merit in ACTUAL performance, despite the unexplainable and unexplicable science behind it.

Lo and behold, just in a recent success the same tools - ionizers - were used to repeatedly create rain in the desert of Abu Dhabi. Max Planc Institute stood by to verify.

So ionizers DO work and capable to produce LARGE scale weather events. Hmmmm.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1343470/Have-scientists-discovered-create-downpours-desert.html

Sir,This forum is genuinely concerned with public safety. It seems clear from the paper written by Dr.Mousa that he is also driven by the same motive. However,the flaws in another of his own paper on substation shielding were pointed out by Dr.chaudhary in his book ''Electromagnetic Transients In Power Systems 2/e (Publisher: Phi Learning Pvt Ltd )''.It is not known whether Dr.Mousa had made good his own paper on substation shielding subsequently or defended it.Thanks.

It is tempting to think that ,as the lightning leader approaches a building close enough during a thunderstorm and upward streamers emerge from the sharp ponits of the outside surface of the building,the leader is likely to be attached to the streamer nearest to it.Refer to lines in the paper ''Specifically, an upward leader is induced from a tall tower when a nearby cloud-to-cloud or cloud to ground lightning strike occurs. If a downward lightning stroke occurs while the above unrelated upward leader is still conductive, then it will terminate at its tip instead of striking the peak of the tower itself.....'' from which it is apparent that the author did not want to admit the case that cloud to ground lightning leader could attach with the upward leader from the building in the first place.Is it because no photos demonstrate it? Thanks.

lightning "strokes"?

Somehow I don't think we've heard the last word on the ESE system. I have a feeling that there is something beneficial about it. The ESE units may not provide the "same" ligntning protection as a conventional Faraday cage but I'd like to know exactly what the benefits of the ESE really are. If we knew that, we could apply ESE to the appropriate LP task. Do ESE's fail? What are the statistics? Do Faraday Cages fail? What are those stats? Seems to me that the fire/LP damage insurance co's wolud like to have this information.