Lighnting protection

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

An interesting paper in the December Bulletin of the American 
Meteorological Society (BAMS) by Uman and Rakov. "A Critical Review of 
Nonconventional Approaches to Lightning Protection"

They talk about grids of corona points and schemes for injecting 
ions.  Lots of interesting stuff there, especially in view of the relevance 
to tesla coiling.. Lightning and tesla coiling both are phenomena that 
occur in highly nonuniform electric fields. In both cases, ions hanging 
around after the initial phenomena have an effect too.

http://ams.allenpress-dot-com/amsonline/?request=get-toc&issn=1520-0477&volume=083&issue=12

Is a link to the BAMS issue, but you need to be an AMS member to see the text.

You can try this link, but it might not work...
http://ams.allenpress-dot-com/amsonline/?request=get-pdf&file=i1520-0477-083-12-1809.pdf


It might turn up elsewhere (like at the website of the University of 
Florida, Gainsville?)
http://www.lightning.ece.ufl.edu/

http://plaza.ufl.edu/rakov/Uman&Rakov%20(2002).PDF appears to have the paper.